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• When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.

  Carlos Ghosn

  People, Decision

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• As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Long, Care, Term

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• If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.

  Lou Gerstner

  Believe, Years, Salary

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• In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

  Ben Horowitz

  Decision, Important, Found

  "The Fine Line Between Fear and Courage" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. August 8, 2011.

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• As CEO, my main job is editor-in-chief.

  Jack Dorsey

  Jobs, Editors, Chiefs

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• My agility is the CEO of the United Global Agility Corporation

  Steve Nash

  Agility, Corporations, United

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• At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria - the growth and success of the business.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Hard Work, Commitment, Dedication

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• People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally out of the realm of possibility.' There was certainly nothing that would have been very predictable in my upbringing.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Mother, Ideas, People

  "Mulcahy traces steps of Xerox's comeback". Interview with Kevin Maney, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 21, 2006.

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• Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000, they hassled George W Bush for not having it. They didn't realise what this book succinctly displays: that the president has something far more important - CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information and make discerning decisions.

  Marvin Olasky

  Clever, Book, Tough Questions

  "George Bush's forte for gifted leadership" by Marc Abrahams, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2008.

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• In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

  Paul Allen

  Decision, Company, Distracted

  Paul Allen (2011). “Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft”, p.131, Penguin

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• If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.

  Gene Simmons

  Successful, Class, Ikea

  "Gene Simmons: Rock 'n' Roll Entrepreneur". Interview with Stacy Perman, www.bloomberg.com. September 5, 2008.

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• I've always managed by walking around. Any CEO or leader who spends the majority of his time in his office is not doing his job.

  Donny Deutsch

  Jobs, Office, Leader

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• Whether you want to be the top violinist or a CEO, strangely enough, hard work and perseverance can overcome a lot of things.

  J Clifford Hudson

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Overcoming

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• Who lives in true poverty - The janitor who is grateful for the chocolate chip pancakes his 6 year old helped his wife prepare for dinner, or The CEO who is ungrateful for the type of wine served with his 5-star meal?

  Julia Rose

  Gratitude, Stars, Grateful

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• Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.

  Max McKeown

  Teamwork, Sports, Team Building

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• Never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit.

  Peter Thiel

  Suits

  "Peter Thiel Says He Never Invests In A CEO Who Wears A Suit" by Joey Cosco, www.businessinsider.com. August 6, 2014.

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• A company does better the less it pays the CEO.

  Peter Thiel

  Doe, Pay, Company

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.90, Crown Business

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• After a long investigation the SEC has fined Halliburton $7.5 million for issuing fraudulent statements exaggerating their profits in 1998 and 1999 during which their CEO was - oh who was it? Oh that's right. ... Cheney himself has not been implicated in the scandal and according to Cheney's lawyer there is no allegation whatsoever that he acted in any way other than in the best interests of the company and its shareholders. And you know what? It's still true today.

  Jon Stewart

  Long, Scandal, Today

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• What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus?

  Inga Muscio

  Thinking, Years, What If

  Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.277, Seal Press

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• Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

  Marc Andreessen

  Hair, Ties, Born

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• If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO's: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even

  Gwyn Morgan

  Oil, Investing, Gas

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• My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?

  Bill Keller

  Dad, Mind, Kind

  "Exclusive Q&A: Bill Keller on Leaving the Times, Fox & More". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2011.

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• It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.

  Tom Robbins

  Ambitious, World, Bible Verse

  "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates". Book by Tom Robbins, 2000.

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• Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous. So, since becoming CEO again, I've pushed hard to increase our velocity, improve our execution, and focus on the big bets that will make a difference in the world.

  Larry Page

  Technology, Differences, Focus

  "More glass from Google: CEO Larry Page gets transparent" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 5, 2012.

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• The CEO of large multi-nationals like Hillary [Clinton]. They won't going to like me and Wall Street is going to like me even less.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Clinton, Streets

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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