Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael J. Saylor

Whenever teenage girls and corporate CEOs covet the same new technology, something extraordinary is happening.

Clearly, every company needs a leader. That's an important part of being the CEO of the company.

Karan Johar

No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.

Jack Welch

CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

Lee Raymond really set the standard for other CEOs in the industry. Everybody else copied Lee Raymond, but you can't duplicate what he's done.

Ricardo Semler

The purpose of work is to make the worker - whether a working stiff or a CEO - feel good about life.

On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have.

I am the CEO and co-founder of Purpose - a social movement incubator and agency. We work on ways to help millions of people combine their power as citizens, consumers and cultural agents.

CEOs are no longer willing to arbitrate between departments and IT. They just want revenues and profit. They might say they want something coordinated, but more important, they just want it done.

Charles Adams

Because she sat where she sat, we are now sitting in Congress, ... We are sitting in the Supreme Court. We are sitting as CEOs and heads of universities.

James Packer

Chris has 40 years' experience, having been a CEO in three industries - newspapers (Fairfax), television (TV NZ) and telecommunications (Optus).

Lilly Singh

I don't say no as much as I should. I'm an extreme workaholic. So I can be sick, and I still say yes to anything. When you are the CEO of your own company, editor of your own videos, your own writer ,and you do every role yourself, you have a hard time saying no to opportunities.

David Rosenberg

If CEOs are just frozen in fear, ... who's going to go on a spending spree.

Malcolm Gladwell

If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting?

Michael Eisner

My intention is definitely to serve (the CEO contract) out to its completion,

Indra Nooyi

To be a CEO is a calling. You should not do it because it is a job. It is a calling, and you have got to be involved in it with your head, heart and hands. Your heart has got to be in the job; you got to love what you do; it consumes you. And if you are not willing to get into the CEO job that way, there is no point getting into it.

Anupam Kher

I started doing motivational tours. I've seen all kinds of people, from the CEOs to the lowest executive, opening up to their fears. We don't introspect as much as we should.

CEOs who can hire properly, that's the most important part of the job. The CEO's job is really to hire the right team and execute the vision second.

Dick Costolo

One of the things that I think I do well as a CEO is that I'm present. When I'm with my employees, I'm there in the moment.

The past CEO deserves a lot of credit for stepping into a difficult role. The simple fact is that Nortel needs a house cleaning and it needs more focus. And from all reports, Mike is the kind of guy to do all of those.

The past CEO deserves a lot of credit for stepping into a difficult role, ... The simple fact is that Nortel needs a house cleaning and it needs more focus. And from all reports, Mike is the kind of guy to do all of those.

We have been frustrated by privacy conventions and other problems in data gathering. So we decided to design in some techniques that would improve our results. We conducted some user group meetings to understand our buyers' characteristics, whether they were programmers, or CEOs looking for an overview, or users seeking tech support. Our registration rates have more than doubled, and the new navigation process deserves at least partial credit for that.

This survey reflects that CEOs are more concerned about the weakness in the economy than they were six months ago.

Tom Chappell

We called CEOs of companies and said we'd like to talk.

While Mr. Owens deserves praise for stepping into a very tough role after the firing of CEO Frank Dunn, we had been increasingly concerned about strategic drift at Nortel, ... In addition, he signally failed to deliver on a promise for greater transparency in financial reporting.

We were seeing daily announcements of the demise of CEOs in a way that seemed to stand out.

Douglas Conant

As a CEO, you get sucked into dealing with all the tasks of being a CEO. There's a big meeting, a big discussion, and you get into all the big issues, which is your job. But what CEOs often lose sight of is that it's all about the people who work for you. For every 1,000 decisions, 999 were being made when I was not in the room.

Scott Weiss

Most companies don't have a good mechanism to give the CEO real, honest feedback.

Sara Rue

I wasn't one-hundred percent sure that Jenny Craig was going to be the right program for me, but I wanted to do something. So I sat down with the CEO of Jenny Craig, Patti Larchet.

Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage in needless wars, and parents to irreversibly traumatize their children.

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.

Magic Johnson

ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.

Hal Sparks

Someone needs to remind American CEOs that if you can't run a company that is innovative, financially sound and doesn't poison the rest of us, You can't run a company.