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• When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.

  Corey Haim

  Young, Our Family

  "Corey Haim's Life Mirrored Pop Culture" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. March 10, 2010.

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• The law of correspondence says your outer world is a mirror of your inner world. Your outer world corresponds to your inner world. Your outer world of your relationships-especially with your children and spouse-simply corresponds to how you feel about yourself, how you're doing

  Brian Tracy

  Children, Mirrors, Law

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• You won't find a CEO who doesn't talk about a 'powerful culture' as a source of competitive advantage. At the same time, you'd be hard-pressed to find a CEO who has much of a clue about the strength of that culture.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Powerful, Culture, Clue

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• The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an annual report or they give a little video speech that gets sent around the company, they think that's what's really going to affect employees.

  Lou Gerstner

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

  "In Focus: Lou Gerstner". Interview with Richard Quest, edition.cnn.com. July 2, 2004.

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• Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch just announced that he is stepping down after three years. When asked if he's looking for a new job, he was like, 'Nah, just browsing.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Jobs, Years, New Job

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• Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Reality, Organization, Visionaries

  "The Visionary Thing". www.wired.com. November 01, 1999.

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• That's a good question. I think there should be many other women CEO s. It feels natural to be a CEO of WellPoint, and part of the reason may be that women may be drawn to healthcare as a profession. Women make 70 percent of all healthcare decisions. Women are currently available-ready, willing, and able-to be CEOs of major Fortune 50 or 500 companies. And I expect them to emerge as such over the days, weeks, and months ahead.

  Angela Braly

  Women, Thinking, Decision

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• This kind of inequality - a level that we haven’t seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can no longer afford to buy the goods and services that businesses are selling...it drags down the entire economy from top to bottom. America was built on the idea of broad-based prosperity... That’s why a CEO like Henry Ford made it his mission to pay his workers enough so that they could buy the cars he made. It’s also why a recent study showed that countries with less inequality tend to have stronger and steadier economic growth over the long run.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Country, Hurt

  Barack Obama's Remarks on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 6, 2011.

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• 'What's your favorite position?' 'CEO.'

  Lauren Conrad

  Women, Your Favorite, Position

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• CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Jobs, Hate, Enemy

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• It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Levels, Social, Bigs

  "Peace, love and fairtrade ice-cream" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. June 01, 2012.

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• Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.

  Ben Horowitz

  Decision, Choices, Courageous

  "Ben Horowitz: There's a fine line between fear and courage". fortune.com. August 5, 2011.

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• I like to joke with my wife that she's the CEO of... certainly of our household.

  Scott Pruett

  Wife, Household, Jokes

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• Today's president, CEO or managing director needs to be a disruptive influence with imagination, vision, and courage to lead the organization into new and dangerous territory. The leader must be an entrepreneurial driver who can inspire the team to boldly venture into uncharted lands.

  Paul Sloane

  Leadership, Team, Organization

  Paul Sloane (2006). “The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlocking the Creativity & Innovation in You and Your Team”, p.11, Kogan Page Publishers

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• It doesn't make much sense and it's nil premium. They're going to have co-CEOs...which is a very uncomfortable structure.

  Martin Sorrell

  Marketing, Structure, Premium

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• I was brought in by the White House as GM's chairman in 2009, around the time of the bankruptcy, and became CEO later that year. As a company, we were grateful for the government's support. But as GM's financial health began to improve, I could detect no real sense of urgency, or even interest, on the part of the government to relinquish control.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Real, Grateful, Government

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• Keeping a 'CEO blog' or 'founder's blog' can be a great platform for engaging your users in a nontraditional way, reaching people outside of your product pitch and building rapport without selling them anything except a belief in your ideas.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Ideas, People, Way

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• The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.

  Indra Nooyi

  Moving, Organization, Leader

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• I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.

  Mark Pincus

  Needs, Engineers, Aspire

  "Zynga’s Mark Pincus Talks About His Management Style, Acquisitions and Mobile". Live Blog, allthingsd.com. May 30, 2012.

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• If CEOs insist that middle class Americans compete with cheap foreign labor, why not outsource the jobs of CEOs? If business is all about cost, they should be the first to volunteer.

  Lou Dobbs

  Jobs, Class, Volunteer

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• Somebody asked me 'what's the job of a CEO', and there's a number of things a CEO does. What you mostly do is articulate the vision, develop the strategy, and you gotta hire people to fit the culture. If you do those three things, you basically have a company. And that company will hopefully be successful, if you have the right vision, the right strategy, and good people.

  Brian Chesky

  Jobs, Successful, Numbers

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• The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.

  Kevin P. Ryan

  Team, Way, Week

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• I hated being a public company CEO.

  John Katzman

  Hated, Company

  "Founder Of The Princeton Review: 'I Hated Being A Public Company CEO'" by Alexandra Mondalek, www.businessinsider.com. July 17, 2013.

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• Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

  Criss Jami

  Kings, Hard Work, Humble

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.86, Criss Jami

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• If the CEO doesn’t see the playing field, nobody else can. The team may need to see it too, but the CEO really needs to be able to see the entire competitive space.

  Steve Ballmer

  Team, Space, May

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