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• The president met with BP CEO Tony Hayward, and Obama was demanding that BP clean up the Gulf. And I'm thinking, good luck. They can't even clean up their gas station restrooms.

  David Letterman

  Good Luck, Thinking, President

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• Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Home, Voice, Coal

  "Occupy Congress" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,' which often means, 'all by themselves.' Why? They've been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Mother, Stress, Mean

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• We need to have honest conversations among women and men to say how do we stop blaming each other? Because I'm not saying that every woman wants to be a corporate CEO. We need so that the women who are corporate CEOs get supported and they're not looking askance or down at women who make other choices in life.

  Debora Spar

  Men, Choices, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Running, Data, Organization

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• At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

  Carl Lewis

  Athlete, Track, The End Of The Day

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• Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Wall, Greed, Receiving

  "Capitalism’s Seven Debtly Sins" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

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• CEOs must embrace the role of serving as the public face of the company to their customer community and the marketplace at large.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Community, Roles, Faces

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• Without question, CEOs, executives and employees in companies in the United States and around the world have rallied to face the challenge of a social media marketplace.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, Challenges, World

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• We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.

  Mitch McConnell

  Jobs, Doors, Years

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• The day I was announced as CEO, I think the stock dropped another 20%.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Thinking

  "Mulcahy traces steps of Xerox's comeback". Interview with Kevin Maney, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 20, 2006.

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• “Job Killer.” Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Jobs, Two, Friendly

  "The Business Case for Workplace Flexibility: How Employers and Employees Can 'Have it All'" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2012.

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• Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it's about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first.

  Andrea Jung

  Thinking, People, Priorities

  "Avon CEO Andrea Jung's advice: Reinvent yourself". ABC NEWS interview, abcnews.go.com. June 14, 2009.

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• I always believe that, as you start out, while you should have a big dream - a big goal - but it's also important to move step by step. So, you know, frankly, if you ask me, when I started as a management trainee in 1984, I don't know that I really thought that I would become the CEO.

  Chanda Kochhar

  Dream, Moving, Believe

  "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. August 17, 2012.

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• The Obama administration asked General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner to step down, and he agreed. This is good news for Obama; the last time he tried to get someone to quit, it took months -- and even then, he had to promise her a job as secretary of state. ... According to the government, Rick Wagoner was forced to resign because of poor performance. That's embarrassing -- run an organization that loses billions of dollars and then get fired by a guy who heads up an organization that loses trillions of dollars.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Jobs, Organization

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• A congressman actually apologized to BP's CEO for the way the company has been treated. How stupid are you when the CEO of BP is in the room and people think you're the moron?

  Jay Leno

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• Today, President Obama finally met with BP's CEO, Tony Hayward, but the meeting was only scheduled 20 minutes. Call me crazy, but I think it should take more time to discuss an oil spill than it does to get your oil checked.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Crazy, Thinking, Oil

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• BP CEO Tony Hayward said recently, 'No one wants this thing over more than I do. I'd like my life back.' Tony, I'm so sorry you had your summer disrupted. I'd buy you a drink, but you'd probably spill that too and make me clean it up.

  Craig Ferguson

  Summer, Sorry, Want

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• BP CEO Tony Hayward said he would just like to get his life back. He wants to get his life back. You know, I say give him life plus 20.

  Jay Leno

  Giving, Want, Said

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• I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.

  Carly Fiorina

  Believe, Pay, Should

  "Robin Roberts Grills Carly Fiorina on 'Too Extreme' Sarah Palin". Interview with Robin Roberts, www.newsbusters.org. October 29, 2010.

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• If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

  Carly Fiorina

  Business, Teenager, Giving

  "Interview With Senate Candidate Carly Fiorina: "The Nation With The Best Brain Power Wins"". Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. January 31, 2010.

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• In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.

  Lee Iacocca

  Guy, Corporations, Ends

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• There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?

  Andrea Jung

  Friday, Monday, Morning

  "Avon CEO Andrea Jung's advice: Reinvent yourself". ABC NEWS interview, abcnews.go.com. June 14, 2009.

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• There you see Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson closing a deal with [Vladimir] Putin in 2011. Two years later, he received one of Russia's highest civilian honors, the Order of Friendship.

  Donald Trump

  Russia, Order, Years

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• When I started working, women were working at 59 cents to the dollar. We got a raise, but it's still unfair. We're still 16 percent of Congress, even though we're 51 percent of the population. We're a low percentage of our CEOs. We're a low percentage of boards and being part of boards.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Unfair

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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