Ceo Quotes - Page 5

• If the CEO doesn’t see the playing field, nobody else can. The team may need to see it too, but the CEO really needs to be able to see the entire competitive space.

  Steve Ballmer

  Team, Space, May

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• Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Reality, Organization, Visionaries

  "The Visionary Thing". www.wired.com. November 01, 1999.

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• If CEOs insist that middle class Americans compete with cheap foreign labor, why not outsource the jobs of CEOs? If business is all about cost, they should be the first to volunteer.

  Lou Dobbs

  Jobs, Class, Volunteer

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• I like to joke with my wife that she's the CEO of... certainly of our household.

  Scott Pruett

  Wife, Household, Jokes

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• I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.

  Mark Pincus

  Needs, Engineers, Aspire

  "Zynga’s Mark Pincus Talks About His Management Style, Acquisitions and Mobile". Live Blog, allthingsd.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.

  Lois Wyse

  Business, Looks, Briefcases

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• CEOs are no different than the guy in the mailroom. They all have to learn how to manage better the risk created by our increasingly risk-shifting world.

  Lewis Schiff

  Guy, Risk, Different

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

  Aubrey McClendon

  Running, Example, Would Be

  "Chesapeake Energy: Everything You Need To Know About The ‘World’s Biggest Fracker’". stateimpact.npr.org. May 29, 2012.

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• Sociopaths are more complicated psychopaths; the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath is a sociopath is incredibly charming. There are a lot of sociopaths that are CEOs. They don't necessarily kill people but they're able to walk into a big social function and make everybody think they're the kindest, coolest, smartest, most interesting person in the room.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Thinking, Differences, People

  "'Jack Reacher' Villain Patrick Heusinger on Playing Opposite Tom Cruise". Interview with Harper's Bazaar, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 24, 2016.

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• My wife is the CEO of the family. I'm the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Fun, Wife, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• When you have two people challenge for the same job and you keep them both and call them co-CEOs, or the whole fiasco of a 'merger of equals'... there is no such a thing. So if there should be dreams of dual leadership, the chances of success are limited. But Bernie [Ecclestone] is still at the top of his game I have noticed.

  Martin Sorrell

  Dream, Jobs, Games

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• They have a new CEO in Wells Fargo . I don't know much about him. The lady who was involved to some degree in the shenanigans along with the CEO are gone. So I need to see where things stand before we go any farther at this point.

  John Kasich

  Shenanigans, Degrees, Needs

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• Sometimes, low-level jobs are challenging even to someone with CEO potential.

  Marty Nemko

  Jobs, Challenges, Levels

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• In his first speech as Speaker, Boehner thanked his loved ones - tobacco lobbyists, the oil companies, the CEOs.

  Jay Leno

  Oil, Lobbyists, Speech

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• You see the kind of approach, because he [Doanld Trump] is a businessman. He's like, I'm going to pick up the phone, I'm gonna call that CEO and we're going to talk about this directly, instead of getting mired in a lot of the way down, you know, bureaucracy and red tape and having 25 assistants or deputies talk to somebody instead of going directly to the root of the problem.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Phones, Roots, Tape

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Another key role the CEO plays is to focus efforts.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Keys, Play, Focus

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The CEO should ask what he or she can do to raise the organization's curiosity quotient. One way to do this is to seek to learn more about current or prospective customers, not to figure out which segmentation model to slot them into, but to really understand them as human beings. Another is to live at the intersections where innovation magic occurs.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Organization, Innovation, Curiosity

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.

  Arianna Huffington

  Business, Hot, Cracks

  Arianna Huffington (2009). “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America”, p.59, Crown

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• People at my level [Unilever CEO] shouldn't be motivated by salary. If you paid me double, I'm not going to work twice as much, because I'm already probably maximizing my time available. And would it change the way I do things? Not really. So, yes, I am fortunate, and I am ashamed about the amount of money I earn.

  Paul Polman

  People, Salary, Levels

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• I'm more interested in a feminism that ends discrimination for all people. It's not just about a woman becoming the CEO of a company or something. It's connected to racism and classism and gender issues that go beyond the binary.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Issues, Racism, People

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• If Trump and his team are able to lower the corporate tax rate to 15%, you look out. The left have told people that corporations are gonna hide the money or shelter the money or keep it for the CEO. They're not gonna give it away, they're not gonna sharing it, it isn't gonna trickle down. You watch.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Team, People, Giving

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• What is success? I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO in itself is not success. I would not relate success to a title or a position. My career has had a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years.

  Paul Polman

  Thinking, Years, Careers

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• If Mr. Trump wants to work with us to make sure that trade works for the American worker, not just CEOs of corporate America, you have got a partner, partner.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, Want, Trump

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Leadership, Business, Organization

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.124, John Wiley & Sons

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• CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying "Our people are our greatest asset." And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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