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• Well, I, you know, I think at PIMCO we always try and be open with the press and the public. I mean, isn't that what voters want from their politicians? Mohamed El-Erian, our CEO, writes several op-eds a week.

  Bill Gross

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  "An Interview with Pimco's Bill Gross". Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. August 31, 2011.

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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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• It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare.

  Warren Buffett

  Impossible, Species, Extraordinary

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• I want to thank the President and the CEO of Constellation Energy, Mayo Shattuck. That's a pretty cool first name, isn't it, Mayo. Pass the Mayo.

  George W. Bush

  Names, President, Energy

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

  Charlie Munger

  Book, Today, Hell

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• We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn't, we'd probably be out of business by now.

  John Raese

  Running, Government, Lines

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• The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?

  Norman Mailer

  Running, Country, America

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've... I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward.

  John Katzman

  Moving, Thinking, People

  "Founder Of The Princeton Review: 'I Hated Being A Public Company CEO'" by Alexandra Mondalek, www.businessinsider.com. July 17, 2013.

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• I was brought in by the White House as GM's chairman in 2009, around the time of the bankruptcy, and became CEO later that year. As a company, we were grateful for the government's support. But as GM's financial health began to improve, I could detect no real sense of urgency, or even interest, on the part of the government to relinquish control.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Real, Grateful, Government

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• Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

  Criss Jami

  Kings, Hard Work, Humble

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.86, Criss Jami

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• When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.

  Corey Haim

  Young, Our Family

  "Corey Haim's Life Mirrored Pop Culture" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. March 10, 2010.

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• We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

  Iris DeMent

  Fighting, Minimum Wage, Pay

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• 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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• You want a woman who, if needed, will be the CEO of the home. In essence, you want a woman who understands the difference between ambition and busyness. You also want a woman who understands that submission is strength, not weakness. Meaning, she understands the importance of your leadership but she is also strong enough not to allow you to run over her.

  Tony Gaskins

  Running, Strong, Home

  Source: kish-magazine.com

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• CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Jobs, Hate, Enemy

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• The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an annual report or they give a little video speech that gets sent around the company, they think that's what's really going to affect employees.

  Lou Gerstner

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

  "In Focus: Lou Gerstner". Interview with Richard Quest, edition.cnn.com. July 2, 2004.

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• Yesterday the CEO of Citigroup said that he can understand why all these Occupy Wall Street protesters are so frustrated. In fact, he felt so bad for them, he gave himself a $10 million sympathy bonus.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Wall, Yesterday, Frustrated

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• Keeping a 'CEO blog' or 'founder's blog' can be a great platform for engaging your users in a nontraditional way, reaching people outside of your product pitch and building rapport without selling them anything except a belief in your ideas.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Ideas, People, Way

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• The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.

  Indra Nooyi

  Moving, Organization, Leader

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• I hated being a public company CEO.

  John Katzman

  Hated, Company

  "Founder Of The Princeton Review: 'I Hated Being A Public Company CEO'" by Alexandra Mondalek, www.businessinsider.com. July 17, 2013.

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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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• 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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• You won't find a CEO who doesn't talk about a 'powerful culture' as a source of competitive advantage. At the same time, you'd be hard-pressed to find a CEO who has much of a clue about the strength of that culture.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Powerful, Culture, Clue

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