Ceo Quotes - Page 17

• Every startup CEO should understand Gamification, because gaming is the new normal.

  Bing Gordon

  New Normal, Should, Gaming

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• The best way to deal in a transparent world is just be transparent. Let your life be authentic and let people look in. Because if they want to find out, they're gonna find out. And so to me it's given me a greater sense of accountability as a CEO. It's given me a greater opportunity to lead.

  Michael Hyatt

  Character, Opportunity, People

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• If I were a CEO of a company and ran it like God runs the universe, I'd be fired.

  Sherwin Wine

  Running, Religion, Company

  Rabbi Sherwin Wine" by Lawrence Joffe, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2007.

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• Some CEO's feel like if the 'opt out of social' they are somehow protected. That is just crazy.

  Sandy Carter

  Crazy, Social Media, Feels

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• Why are CEO's who slash jobs so proud of themselves? Instead of bragging about 'cutting fat,' they ought to be getting up before their employees and saying, We did such a lousy job of planning and hiring that we have more people than work. And we are so broke and so dim-witted that we can't come up with any way to get more work. So our only solution is to send a lot of good people home. I am ashamed and I am sorry.

  Dale Dauten

  Jobs, Sorry, Home

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• The most important thing I've learned since becoming CEO is context. It's how your company fits in with the world and how you respond to it.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Learning, Important, World

  "Long-term marketing: a new paradigm shift" by John Drummond, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2012.

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• I'm going to miss Blockbuster. I'm gonna miss being CEO and all that stuff. We had an atmosphere where everybody was happy. When people make money, they're happy.

  Wayne Huizenga

  People, Missing, Atmosphere

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• Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.

  Bill Gates

  Organization, Looks, News

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Jobs, Business

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• If your cash is about to run out, you have to cut your cash flow. CEOs have to make those decisions and live with them however painful they may be. You have to act and act now; and act in the best interest of the company as a whole, even if it means that some people in the company who are your best friends have to work somewhere else.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Running, Mean

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• In the industrial age, the CEO sat on the top of the hierarchy and didn't have to listen to anybody ... In the information age, you have to listen to the ideas of people regardless of where they are in the organization.

  John Sculley

  Organization, Ideas, People

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• I think we have lost our way when people like the [board of] governors and the CEO of the NYSE fail to realize they have a duty to the rest of us to act as exemplars... You do not want your first-grade school teacher to be fornicating on the floor or drinking booze in the classroom; similarly you do not want your stock exchange to be setting the wrong moral example.

  Charlie Munger

  Teacher, Drinking, School

  Charlie Munger's comments on economic matters at the 2005 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. April 30, 2005.

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• I'm the CEO. My job is to get out of the way. I work with smart people and trust they can accomplish their goals. So I make sure to focus on removing roadblocks for them and then resume getting out of their way.

  John Fairclough

  Jobs, Smart, People

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• My role as CEO is to protect the company AND nurture it to grow.

  John Fairclough

  Roles, Protect, Nurture

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• The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company.

  Peter Drucker

  Running, Greatness, Finals

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• Why is McDonalds still counting? How insecure is this company? 40 million, 80 billion million jillion killion tillion... who cares? Is anyone really impressed by that any more? Ooh, 89 billion sold? All right, I'll have one! I'm satisfied! I'd like to tell the CEO of McDonalds, "Look. We all get it, okay? You've sold a lot of hamburgers. Whatever the number is, just put up a sign, 'McDonalds: We're Doing Very Well.' We are tired of hearing about every goddamn one of them."

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Tired, Insecure, Numbers

  "I'm Telling You for the Last Time". Stand-up comedy, 1998.

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• I'm a friend of the CEO of Twitter and he showed me how to be on it, but it causes such an uproar if what you post is perceived in a negative light.

  Dana Carvey

  Light, Causes, Negative

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• Show me a chief executive who’s on five boards and who lends his or her name, prestige and time to 15 community activities — and I’ll show you a company that’s underperforming. A chief executive is paid to run the company. That’s the CEO’s job.

  Albert J. Dunlap

  Running, Jobs, Names

  "CEOs — An Endangered Species?". www.theglobalist.com. March 27, 2001.

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• Microsoft loves losing money with online services, so this should stay free forever... unless they get a new CEO who isn't crazy about pouring billions into a hole.

  Marco Arment

  Crazy, Forever, Microsoft

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• Any CEO who cannot clearly articulate the intangible assets of his brand and understand its connection to customers, is in trouble.

  Charlotte Beers

  Connections, Trouble, Intangible

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• CEOs pretty much pick the boards that give them salaries and bonuses. That's one of the reasons why the CEO-to-payment [ratio] has so sharply escalated in this country in contrast to Europe. (They're similar societies and it's bad enough there, but here we're in the stratosphere. ] There's no particular reason for it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Europe, Giving

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• Stakeholders - meaning workers and community - the CEO could just as well be responsible to them. This presupposes there ought to be management but why does there have to be management? Why not have the stakeholders run the industry?

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Community, Doe

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• Silicon Valley companies need to be asked to bring the best and brightest, the most recent technology to the table. I was asked as a CEO. I complied happily. And they will as well. But they have not been asked. That's why it cost billions of dollars to build an [Barack] Obama website that failed because the private sector wasn't asked.

  Carly Fiorina

  Technology, Dollars, Needs

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• First word [of my father] when I arrived [as a CEO] is, 'Son, i hope your first deal is a loser, otherwise, you'll think you're a lot smarter than you are.' But he had tremendous values, tremendous integrity, humility, work ethic and terrific thirst for knowledge.

  Charles Koch

  Father, Integrity, Humility

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• ...it's almost natural because when you're an artist you know what you want. And then if you're able to mentally turn that into being a CEO, now you know what the artist wants. That's kinda how I did it.

  Lil Wayne

  Artist, Want, Able

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