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• I will say that going to these meetings and things, you know, I thought that, you know, be in a room with a bunch of drunk people. Ugh! I can't do that. And the truth is, it is the cheapest therapy that you could ever get. You're in a group of people that are from all walks of life, you know. Some guy that's got, you know, construction stuff on and dust still on, to a person that's the CEO of a company. And it's a common - it's a common abyss that you shared.

  Lynda Carter

  Dust, People, Drunk

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• By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.

  James Surowiecki

  Superhero, Kind, Treatment

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• Many university presidents assume the language and behavior of CEOs and in doing so they are completely reneging on the public mission of the universities. The state is radically defunding public universities and university presidents, for the most part, rather than defending higher education as a public good, are trying to privatize their institutions in order to remove them from the political control of state governments. This is not a worthy or productive strategy.

  Henry Giroux

  Government, Order, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Educational, Care, Lines

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• I argue that once it became clear that the most important function of the CEO was to develop and enact the corporate strategy, that often had the effect of distancing him from people below him in the organization. It also encouraged the idea that if a CEO were a great strategist for a company in one industry, he would probably be a great strategist in another industry. And that usually hasn't proved to be the case.

  Walter Kiechel

  People, Important, Arguing

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I never imagined working with CEOs, congressmen or the military, yet I make regular visits to the Pentagon, stop by the Capitol now and then and sit down with leaders of all kinds of companies.

  Simon Sinek

  Military, Leader, Kind

  "The Why: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• Obviously, being the CEO, there are a lot of eyes on what you do and what you post and how you post, and I think one of the challenges of Instagram in general is that, as we get bigger, there are just more voices in the room, more eyes on everyone's accounts.

  Kevin Systrom

  Eye, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Years, People, Bankers

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• The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Cfo, Engineering

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

  Indra Nooyi

  Inspirational, Business, Thinking

  "How Pepsi’s Indra Nooyi Learned To Be A CEO". Interview with Gary Burnison, www.fastcompany.com. April 29, 2011.

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• Maybe back in the day you didn't need to be the greatest looking to be on TV and you didn't need to speak the best, but in this day and age, I think you need to be the package. You need to look the part for your sponsors, you need to be able to speak the part for the media and to big CEOs.

  Danica Patrick

  Thinking, Media, Age

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• Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.

  Tom Peters

  Jobs, Age, Important

  "The Brand Called You" by Tom Peters, www.fastcompany.com. August 31, 1997.

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• A valuable lesson I've learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world has experienced love, loneliness, fear and embarassment at some point. To understand this is to level an often very lopsided playing field.

  Anna Nalick

  Teacher, Loneliness, Math

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• Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Confidence, Self

  Twitter post from Oct 6, 2014

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• 'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.

  Felix Dennis

  Art, Media, America

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• This is what income inequality means in America, and why the gap between the very rich and everyone else is growing wider. According to a recent study, CEO pay is now 295 times more than the pay of a typical worker. In 1965, the differential was 20 times. We must create an economy that works for all, not just the top 1%.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mean, America, Typical

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• Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Teaching, Names

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• In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue a truly disruptive strategy.

  Clayton Christensen

  Successful, Strategy, Company

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Another thing I've observed is how critical the role of the CEO is when a technology truly is disruptive. In looking back on companies that have successfully launched independent disruptive business units, the CEO always had a foot in both camps. Never have they succeeded when they spin something off in order to get it off the CEO's agenda. The CEOs that did this had extraordinary personal self-confidence, and almost always they were the founders of the companies.

  Clayton Christensen

  Independent, Self Confidence, Technology

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major CEOs, more math major senators. But we won't get there unless we dump the stereotype that math is only worthwhile for kid geniuses.

  Jordan Ellenberg

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

  Bill Gates

  Boards, Microsoft, Want

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• Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team.

  Fred Wilson

  Senior, Team, Boards

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• Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Success, People

  Twitter post from Nov 06, 2016

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• You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.

  Andy Grove

  Confidence, Business, Effort

  "Andy Grove: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Synergies are something that the CEO basically has to force to happen, because organizations are, generally, like bodies in motion that tend to stay in motion. It's very hard to get big organizations to change. And it takes really a very powerful mandate to force things to happen.

  John C. Malone

  Change, Powerful, Organization

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