Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Robert Sternberg

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

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.

For a CEO to be told when to get up, when to eat, where to stand and what to wear, this is a significant punishment,

This is not likely to be a company with a Jack Welch type of CEO and a cult of personality for 20 years.

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.

Steve Jobs

We clearly have slowed down the process of picking a new partner to see how this (Hollywood) game of musical chairs will end and who the new CEO of Disney will be,

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.

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.

Paul Graham

Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.

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,

I picked up the phone and called Herbert Hainer, the CEO of Adidas, and said, 'Well, it's Peace Day coming up. I think it's about time after 60 years to end this feud. How about doing something together?'

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.

John Davidson

But ultimately, rate cuts are not going to help the crisis of confidence. This is a process that is going to take a lot of time. We need to see CEOs signing off on the earnings. We need to see people getting prosecuted.

He sounds to me like the kind of person Nortel needs. A new Nortel CEO should be top-line, sales oriented to sell to people who may be reluctant to use Nortel because of their reputation.

He's saying, 'The CEO is not the only one that contributes to the success of the organization.'

Martha Stewart

It is within everyone's grasp to be a CEO.

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

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

The turmoil in the boardroom and the goings-on with the CEO succession should dominate the agenda.

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.

David Livingstone

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

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.

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.

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.

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,

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.