Ceo Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• If you gave me the choice of being CEO of General Electric or IBM or General Motors, you name it, or delivering papers, I would deliver papers. I would. I enjoyed doing that. I can think about what I want to think. I don't have to do anything I don't want to do.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Names, Choices

  "What Warren thinks". Interview with Nicholas Varchaver, archive.fortune.com. April 14, 2008.

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• People at my level [Unilever CEO] shouldn't be motivated by salary. If you paid me double, I'm not going to work twice as much, because I'm already probably maximizing my time available. And would it change the way I do things? Not really. So, yes, I am fortunate, and I am ashamed about the amount of money I earn.

  Paul Polman

  People, Salary, Levels

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• Most of the drug CEOs I know, they're not themselves - they're what people want them to be. It's pretty obvious of the different drug executives. They're old white men, very buttoned up. They're appropriate, so to speak. I'm a little bit more irreverent, and I'm not going to change just because I have this job.

  Martin Shkreli

  Jobs, Men, White

  "We called Martin Shkreli and asked him point blank about the drug-price scandal - here's what he said". Interview with Lydia Ramsey, www.businessinsider.com. October 13, 2015.

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• No CEO examining books today understands what the hell is going on.

  Charlie Munger

  Book, Today, Hell

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• You don't see a lot of MBAs as CEOs. The MBAs tend to get hired by the CEOs.

  Michael Ellsberg

  Mba

  "Drop Out of The System, Drop Into Success". The Dartmouth Lecture, www.ellsberg.com.

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• Then, as she turned to walk away, Fred dropped the guillotine."So we're making Ev CEO," he said, his fork clenched in his hand. "You're going to get a passive chairman role and a silent board seat. We have some paperwork for you and a recommendation for a lawyer."Jack felt like he had just been hit in the face with a baseball bat. "Say that again," he stuttered to Fred, thinking he had heard incorrectly.Fred repeated himself almost verbatim: We're making Ev CEO. You're getting a passive chairman role. You will have a silent board seat. Here's the paperwork. Call a lawyer.

  Nick Bilton

  Baseball, Thinking, Hands

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• The CEO is, by far, the most important decision for a company... The company is going to rise and fall with the CEO.

  Carl Icahn

  Fall, Decision, Important

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• Even when I take the path to go be a CEO for a month, or a CEO for a day- music is still there. It’s an extremely important part of what I am.

  Michael Nesmith

  Important, Path, Months

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• You've got the principled people who maybe are on salaried jobs, or CEOs, entrepreneurs, and all of those that are great people, but if you're not appealing - the permanent coalition is to join that with traditional Americans who feel like, that things aren't going well for them, and to develop policies that improve their lifestyle, not just upper-income lifestyles. And once that's believed by working people, that it's serious and a commitment and you care about people like me, for a change, Republicans could create a new majority.

  Jeff Sessions

  Jobs, Commitment, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention.

  Leah D. Daughtry

  Mean, Conventions

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The CEO should ask what he or she can do to raise the organization's curiosity quotient. One way to do this is to seek to learn more about current or prospective customers, not to figure out which segmentation model to slot them into, but to really understand them as human beings. Another is to live at the intersections where innovation magic occurs.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Organization, Innovation, Curiosity

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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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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• When you have two people challenge for the same job and you keep them both and call them co-CEOs, or the whole fiasco of a 'merger of equals'... there is no such a thing. So if there should be dreams of dual leadership, the chances of success are limited. But Bernie [Ecclestone] is still at the top of his game I have noticed.

  Martin Sorrell

  Dream, Jobs, Games

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• It's a bit disappointing when board members who don't know a thing about football are making decisions on your career. When you look at it you've got coaches, senior players and CEO's who wanted me but then it gets to a board meeting and you've got fat businessmen who are making the decision on your career. It was frustrating and it made me a bit angry.

  Willie Mason

  Senior, Football, Player

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• Sometimes, low-level jobs are challenging even to someone with CEO potential.

  Marty Nemko

  Jobs, Challenges, Levels

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The good doctor reassured John these were people who put their psychopathy to good use. They lived productive, well-adjusted lives as surgeons, CEOs and ambulance drivers. The light bulb went on. The CSC [Correctional Service of Canada] doesn't have to go through all these gyrations to reprogram anyone, they just have to find every inmate the right job!

  Stephen Reid

  Jobs, Doctors, Light

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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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• 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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• Another key role the CEO plays is to focus efforts.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Keys, Play, Focus

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• This book [ "Win"] is based on the interviews with three dozen Fortune 400 - or Forbes 400, the richest people, and a couple dozen of the top CEOs.I wanted to know what language they use to be successful, and I wanted to know the attributes that could then be applied to the average individual.

  Frank Luntz

  Couple, Book, Successful

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• It is within everyone's grasp to be a CEO.

  Martha Stewart

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• CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying "Our people are our greatest asset." And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• If Mr. Trump wants to work with us to make sure that trade works for the American worker, not just CEOs of corporate America, you have got a partner, partner.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, Want, Trump

  Source: www.pbs.org

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