Famous Quotes & Sayings

The leadership of an organization has no job more important than making sure everyone knows the importance of the customer. CEOs who want real job security should try to please customers, not shareholders.

The market is in the process of testing the March-April lows. The only thing that will turn the market around is if we get some CEOs saying there's light at the end of the tunnel.

Robert Sternberg

develop leaders of the next generation, and not necessarily CEOs and presidents.

As a result of a very thorough succession planning process, we decided that naming Ron Williams CEO early in the year would provide for an orderly transition.

As chairman and CEO for the past three years, I am very proud of the films released during that time and I'm especially pleased with the films scheduled for the next 24 months. I look forward to working with the company in an independent capacity.

As CEO of Xerox, I am ready and privileged to lead a team of dedicated employees who are as sharply focused and committed as I am in the successful turnaround of our company.

Indra Nooyi

As a CEO of a large company, clearly we need policies in the U.S. government that are pro-business, because at the end of the day, we all work within the framework of a country's policies.

There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

David Rose

People understand the product when they see it in the CEOs office and in context and it has been widely successful via word of mouth.

They started raising issues like 'What's the training the CEO has to deal with financial planning, strategic issues, personnel management, marketing?' It's had a significant impact on the thinking.

Eric Schmidt

It's a sale out of weakness. There are internal disagreements, and the CEO changes tell you that they realize the world is going to get a lot more competitive for them. In my view, they're in trouble.

Stephanie Adams

Beth goes to all the conferences and teaches master classes in the mornings. We got a lot of comments from people saying that it was nice to see the CEO and founder being involved with the trainings.

Some expect CEOs to be chained to the desk. Most put in 12 or more hours a day, often working seven days a week. But we should want leaders in high-pressure situations to have time to decompress.

Some people would rather be the 100 percent owner of a $100 million company than the partner of a $200 million company. They feel comfortable being the CEO and the sole decision-maker.

I've always thought about being a CEO of a Fortune 500 company. I want to put myself in a position where I can use the resources I gained by playing football.

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.

That's indicative of a company with an imperial CEO and very poor controls.

There won't be a lot of resolutions passed here today, but the key is to get the dialogue open and to get CEOs interested in providing their customers with protection.

Phil Knight

The transition from a CEO founder to a new manager is a very, very difficult one.

With Lithia, you have a CEO who is not only the major stock owner but the person over the last 20 years that has taken all the risks by deciding to do the expansion he has done,

The ISO is going to the CEO saying there's a chance something bad, and possibly something embarrassing, could happen. But how much of a chance, the ISO doesn't know. And if he spends this kind of money, he can reduce the risk but by how much, he doesn't know. It's simply not enough data. Every other C-level executive does better than that and takes on the responsibility for defining the risk. Here, the CISO is putting the responsibility on the CEO. They don't want it, and eventually they won't take it.

David Livingstone

It's pretty standard for a new CEO to clean house,

Stewart's reputation is muddled right now. And even though she's no longer CEO of her company, her name is on the building.

I want to see more comments from the CEO saying things are stabilizing, ... The market has its test coming in the next four-to-six weeks.

It's really crazy. You get to meet all the CEOs at Nike. They're making a commitment to all the top high schools in the country. They're taking the top 20 (football) teams in America. They're tapping the high school market. We'll be a Nike team head to toe.

I hope the CEOs of the energy companies use that (hearing) as an opportunity to make their case, tell the story of just what it is they are planning on reinvesting in this sector,

Eisner's resignation as CEO is the right move for shareowners,

It's interesting they flipped the jobs. They want the future CEO to have experience on the domestic and international side equally. It may be that Wal-Mart looks at the international side as equal to the U.S.

This is without a doubt the most withholding of support for a CEO of a major company that I have ever seen. It's really an expression of dissatisfaction,

If you compensate a CEO by giving him options, he's going to do everything he can to make those options as valuable as possible.

Tom Ellis

He's not a vegetable, but he can only go for a couple of hours and he has extreme fatigue where he has to lie down and rest, ... This is higher-profile because it happened to be a CEO making $800,000 a year. The fact of the matter is, these injuries are occurring every single day.

Changes at the top are typically followed by changes further down the ladder. However, the high number of job cuts this year could also be leading to CEO changes.

Changes at the top are typically followed by changes further down the ladder, ... However, the high number of job cuts this year could also be leading to CEO changes.