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.
I run the largest survey company in the world. It just so happens to be the second-largest company run by someone in my house.
I learnt earlier on that If you can run one company.You can really run any company.A company is all about finding the right people and inspiring those people,drawing out the best in people
It helps to have founded and run a company if you're going to help somebody run a company who is a founder.
As president, I could run the Trump organization, great, great company, and I could run the company - the country. I'd do a very good job, but I don't want to do that.
If your cash is about to run out, you have to cut your cash flow. CEOs have to make those decisions and live with them however painful they may be. You have to act and act now; and act in the best interest of the company as a whole, even if it means that some people in the company who are your best friends have to work somewhere else.
I've talked to several CEOs - from a recycling company in Indiana, a furniture company in Kentucky, a brewing company in Colorado, and more - who believe paying higher wages is both the right thing to do and part of a successful business model.
When I graduate, I will either run a division of a company... or I'll get funding for my own company.
I built a phenomenal company; if we could run America the way I ran my company, we'd be proud of it.
I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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?
I've said all along that we're building Axovant as a lasting company for the long run, not to hand over that upside to a pharma company in the future.
People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.
If you can run one company, you can run another. Running companies are about inspiring and driving the best out of people.
I can't run a company... I can't even run my own life!
Every job in a company is important. Unless you experience a wide range of those jobs, I don't think you are as well prepared to start and run a company as you could be.