Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark McKinnon

CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one.

If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.

What you have is a payoff when there's poor performance. But that's the nature of contracts. There's such a tremendous risk these days with being a CEO of a major corporation.

What you have is a payoff when there's poor performance, ... But that's the nature of contracts. There's such a tremendous risk these days with being a CEO of a major corporation.

Having to search for a chairman and CEO could delay the turnaround for some period of time. They have a somewhat diminished but still strong market position.

Drew Brown

He's good with everybody, ... He can talk to the CEO as well as he can talk to the mechanic.

We made our commitment to KT&G because we are confident in the strong potential of this company. If the CEO is not willing to consider our proposals as investors, we have no choice but to continue to seek election of our nominees.

John Franklin

If the CEO isn't engaged, you don't have a campaign,

If some person or even the CEO is going to be pressuring the analysts one way or the other, that's something compliance should know about.

Steve Largent

I always felt the gifts you need as governor were more suited for my personality. I'm a good team player, but I'm not a policy wonk. In Congress, you need 218 votes to make anything happen. When you're governor, you're the CEO of the state. You establish the vision and standards for the state. You're the leader.

We hope to make the point that CEOs need to be personally engaged in information security as a strategic issue.

Yes, it is true there is office space in the hospital, but the CEOs calculations are that it will cost at least R7 million to renovate them.

David Healy

Half of his pay is dependent on the performance of the company, so that looks pretty reasonable relative to the pay of other CEOs at big companies. It probably doesn't look reasonable to the guy who just got laid off.

When he started as CEO I thought Kellogg was a very insular, not-very-worldly-wise type of company. It's now about as international and as sophisticated as they get.

Over the past few years, we're talking about a few out of the hundreds and hundreds of CEOs who have been terminated, so it is pretty unusual.

Some guys, when they get into coaching they're just dying to be a head coach, ... I was not as much that way as some guys are, because I like the coaching part. Every time I see a head coach, as they become a head coach, they become more of an administrator and CEO and less of a head coach.

Looking ahead, the CEOs are cautiously optimistic but not as optimistic about the short-term outlook as they were at the end of 2004.

John A. Logan

I think these are all very precarious relationships, ... Often there are really no more than a piece of paper committing management and unions to cooperative relationships. If a new CEO is no longer committed to it he can simply rip up the cooperative relationship and that would be the end of it.

Just because you're a CEO doesn't mean you're dying to go to work.

Jim Breyer

Jeanne was one of the first people we thought of when we started our search for the CEO position. She is an exceptional leader who will help us fully leverage the trusted Wal-Mart brand.

I think that an effective CEO is a generalist in many waysone that can represent the company well to the customers, to the investors, to the community. You also have to represent yourself well as a leader at all levels of the organization. One of the things I have learned since my younger days is that everyone in the organization counts.

People are concerned about corporate governance. Separating the CEO from the chairman role certainly could help to quell some of the dissent.

People are concerned about corporate governance, ... Separating the CEO from the chairman role certainly could help to quell some of the dissent.

Andrea Jung

I was marketing-based and U.S.-based. I hadn't run our international business; I hadn't run the operating line. Because of the board's insistence that I go on the road and get that experience, I'm sure I'm a better CEO than I would have been.

I would like to see a CEO in place who can run the company successfully,

I was very excited about the prospect of being the CEO of a fast-growing technology company, particularly in the B2B sector,

I think people need to be concerned about the length of the technology cycle and the inability of most CEOs and analysts to predict the course of corporate earnings over the next several quarters.

When you're the retired CEO, you get out of the way, in effect. Dick is the new CEO and I think it's important that he have a clear field.

When you're the retired CEO, you get out of the way, in effect, ... Dick is the new CEO and I think it's important that he have a clear field.

You can have the same kind of influence on your life whether you're running a gas station or you're CEO of a company.

Soledad O'Brien

I've taken the leap of faith to stop punching the company time clock and start working for myself. I'm now the CEO of Starfish Media Group, my production company, in New York City.

Angela Ahrendts

I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.

The September data indicate a general weakening in the job picture nationwide -- a trend we were seeing before the recent hurricanes, ... That data is consistent with the latest CEO Confidence Survey, which is also down.