Ceo Quotes - Page 19

• Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

  Ben Horowitz

  Book, Fighting, Enemy

  "Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. April 15, 2011.

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• Because we weren't having success finding a CEO, our investors insisted that we hire these managers a temporary CEO and CFO. That didn't go great.

  Tim Brady

  Cfo, Entrepreneur, Findings

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• Every startup CEO should understand Gamification, because gaming is the new normal.

  Bing Gordon

  New Normal, Should, Gaming

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• During the whole funding process they said, 'We're interested in you guys because of your management team; we think you're fantastic...' Two weeks later they pull me into the office - before even the first board meeting - and say, 'We want to replace you as CEO.'

  Mark Fletcher

  Team, Thinking, Two

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• First word [of my father] when I arrived [as a CEO] is, 'Son, i hope your first deal is a loser, otherwise, you'll think you're a lot smarter than you are.' But he had tremendous values, tremendous integrity, humility, work ethic and terrific thirst for knowledge.

  Charles Koch

  Father, Integrity, Humility

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do. If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed. No task is too menial.

  Elon Musk

  Tasks, Want, Might

  "Elon Musk And Richard Branson Give Their Best Advice To Entrepreneurs" by Max Nisen and Alexandra Mondalek, www.businessinsider.com. August 08, 2013.

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• Silicon Valley companies need to be asked to bring the best and brightest, the most recent technology to the table. I was asked as a CEO. I complied happily. And they will as well. But they have not been asked. That's why it cost billions of dollars to build an [Barack] Obama website that failed because the private sector wasn't asked.

  Carly Fiorina

  Technology, Dollars, Needs

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I'm a friend of the CEO of Twitter and he showed me how to be on it, but it causes such an uproar if what you post is perceived in a negative light.

  Dana Carvey

  Light, Causes, Negative

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• Show me a chief executive who’s on five boards and who lends his or her name, prestige and time to 15 community activities — and I’ll show you a company that’s underperforming. A chief executive is paid to run the company. That’s the CEO’s job.

  Albert J. Dunlap

  Running, Jobs, Names

  "CEOs — An Endangered Species?". www.theglobalist.com. March 27, 2001.

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• Microsoft loves losing money with online services, so this should stay free forever... unless they get a new CEO who isn't crazy about pouring billions into a hole.

  Marco Arment

  Crazy, Forever, Microsoft

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• Any CEO who cannot clearly articulate the intangible assets of his brand and understand its connection to customers, is in trouble.

  Charlotte Beers

  Connections, Trouble, Intangible

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• Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.

  Bill Gates

  Organization, Looks, News

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• I'm going to miss Blockbuster. I'm gonna miss being CEO and all that stuff. We had an atmosphere where everybody was happy. When people make money, they're happy.

  Wayne Huizenga

  People, Missing, Atmosphere

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• CEOs pretty much pick the boards that give them salaries and bonuses. That's one of the reasons why the CEO-to-payment [ratio] has so sharply escalated in this country in contrast to Europe. (They're similar societies and it's bad enough there, but here we're in the stratosphere. ] There's no particular reason for it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Europe, Giving

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• Stakeholders - meaning workers and community - the CEO could just as well be responsible to them. This presupposes there ought to be management but why does there have to be management? Why not have the stakeholders run the industry?

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Community, Doe

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right now, because the planet is in a lot of pain. My job doesn’t always feel like an integral part of the change that needs to occur. If I can offer, in my profession, to do things that are going to allow more people to connect with certain issues, then I hope it’s useful.

  Ellen Page

  Religious, Jobs, Pain

  "Ellen Page’s Greenest Day". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September 11, 2010.

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• ...it's almost natural because when you're an artist you know what you want. And then if you're able to mentally turn that into being a CEO, now you know what the artist wants. That's kinda how I did it.

  Lil Wayne

  Artist, Want, Able

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• The most important thing I've learned since becoming CEO is context. It's how your company fits in with the world and how you respond to it.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Learning, Important, World

  "Long-term marketing: a new paradigm shift" by John Drummond, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2012.

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• After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding - I was fired today.

  Andrew Mason

  Years, Today, Half

  "Groupon CEO: 'I Was Fired Today.'" by John Paczkowski, allthingsd.com. February 28, 2013.

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• I have worked with leaders for 17 years. But I'm also a leader myself, and I can honestly say I feel deeply the privilege and responsibility that come with being a CEO. It is incumbent upon us to become all we can be, not only for ourselves, but for our companies.

  Suzanne Bates

  Responsibility, Leader, Honestly

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title. Not only was Jobs refusing to commit himself, but he was baffling everyone by taking only $1 a year in pay and no stock options. I make 50 cents for showing up, he liked to joke, and the other 50 cents is based on performance.

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Two, Apples

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• If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales.

  Daymond John

  Needs, I Need Him, Ifs

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• At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs-as long as no one is watching, anything goes.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Heart, Humor, Long

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life.

  Brian Tracy

  Simple, Keys, Careers

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Nov 25, 2013

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• The relationship between executive CEO pay, stock performance is tenuous and not easily unscrambled, just one of myriad factors that affect the price of a stock.

  John C. Bogle

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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