Ceo Quotes - Page 18

• CEOs are paid for doing a terrible job. If the system wasn't so messed up, guys like me wouldn't make this kind of money.

  Carl Icahn

  Jobs, Guy, Kind

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• Everything that I'm seeing in America, when it comes to the groundwater contamination and the poisoning of people I see, it's a moral issue. Nobody's ever gonna convince me that a CEO wouldn't care if his own child was poisoned.

  Erin Brockovich

  Children, America, Issues

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are three things you need to do as a CEO-founder. Think strategically, drive design, and drive technology. Some people who are really good at one can build a pretty foundational company. Most people who are very successful are good at two. But Jack is the only person in the Valley I've met who's all three. He's a first-rate strategist, a first-rate designer, and a first-rate technologist.

  Keith Rabois

  Successful, Technology, Thinking

  "The Many Sides of Jack Dorsey" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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• It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.

  Roelof Botha

  Wall, Rushing, Long

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• Power relations between men and women must change profoundly, men must be partners in the pursuit of gender equality, in their decision-making roles, as heads of state, CEOs, religious and cultural leaders, and as partners and parents.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Change, Religious, Men

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• One of the most important things for any leader is to never let anyone else define who you are. And you define who you are. I never think of myself as being a woman CEO of this company. I think of myself as a steward of a great institution.

  Ginni Rometty

  Thinking, Leader, Important

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• Mea culpa, mea culpa. MIT and Wharton and University of Chicago created the financial engineering instruments, which, like Samson and Delilah, blinded every CEO. They didn't realize the kind of leverage they were doing and they didn't understand when they were really creating a real profit or a fictitious one.

  Paul Samuelson

  Real, Engineering, Creating

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• It's interesting that there's so many different sides of this: Women get frustrated that we don't get paid enough; and then the Republicans or the CEOs that are men say, "Well, it's because women take off time for maternity leave."

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Men, Interesting, Frustrated

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: 'There Is Always a Backlash'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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• The banks don't have anything - no rights whatsoever. The banks are shareholders of SLEC, and SLEC has no rights. I am the CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, which runs the business in F1. From this point of view, I own F1.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Running, Rights, Views

  November 23, 2004.

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• If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

  Noam Chomsky

  Honesty, Creating, Corporations

  "Question time" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2003.

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• I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.

  John G. Stumpf

  Team, Members, Colleagues

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• As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how to meticulously manage my time.

  Alexa Von Tobel

  Daughter, Simple, Wife

  "LearnVest's CEO: 5 Time Management Tips I Can't Live Without" by Alexa von Tobel, www.businessinsider.com. September 11, 2013.

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• When I returned as CEO in 2008, Starbucks had forgotten that meaningful innovations balance an organization's heritage with modern-day relevance and market differentiation, so we had to reorient. In one brainstorming session, we visited and observed great retailers, then asked ourselves, 'If Starbucks did not exist, what type of coffee experience would we create?

  Howard Schultz

  Meaningful, Coffee, Organization

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• Companies who have been able to groom CEOs internally have done significantly better. We came to the conclusion that the quality of several of the reviewed internal candidates was so high that it did not merit to go outside.

  Jorma Ollila

  Quality, Done, Able

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• I am fairly average in my expenses as a person in a technical line/CEO of work.

  Jack Levin

  Average, Lines, Expenses

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• [T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss.

  Henry Blodget

  Cheerleading, Differences, Missing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand; your task is the same.

  Ben Horowitz

  Believe, Odds, Play

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• A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive.

  Robin Sharma

  Thinking, Directors, Culture

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.21, Jaico Publishing House

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