Top 709 CEO Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I dreamt of running my own business even as a kid, but if not a CEO, I would have probably been a pilot.

Every startup CEO should understand Gamification, because gaming is the new normal.

If I were a CEO of a company and ran it like God runs the universe, I'd be fired.

When a new CEO comes, make sure you send him a visiting card to say, 'Sir, I'm with you'.

I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the 2008 Canadian CEO of the year, Frank DAngelo.

Enron CEO Kenneth Lay has apparently just slipped across the border into Pakistan.

When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.

In every investment, before I get involved or invest, I always see what the mindset of the founder, the CEO, is.

My wife is the CEO of the family. I'm the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.

The first step in changing a culture, I believe, starts with the senior leadership team - and with the CEO.

Unless you are a lawyer or Fortune 500 CEO, carrying a briefcase is, well, nerdy.

As the CEO of a global company I think countries are foregoing opportunities by having cabotage rules.

You want a CEO that understands they need to build a team around them that's sharper and smarter than they are.

One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.

We're all shareholders. These guys below me, they see the CEO taking it easy, it's their money.

When I became the CEO of Burberry in July 2006, luxury was one of the fastest-growing sectors in the world.

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector.

You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that.

A lot of people say that I'm an activist CEO. I just think I'm a responsible leader of a business.

Every CEO of a social network should be required to use the default privacy settings for all of their accounts on the service.

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

At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

I tend to think that free-market conservative principles are the best ones for the CEO of a state.

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

An approachable and authentic CEO is essential to fostering a high-performance, open communications culture.

We're going to let foreign corporations and their CEO's decide the outcomes of the [presidential elections] you just can't do this.

When you have a CEO who is an ex-CMO, that is going to put the marketing tool kit front and center.

My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor.

You're doing a major merger, you got to hope you didn't get it wrong. That's the view of any CEO.

I'm known as the ankle bully, and I'm the CEO of it because I've made a lot of people fall during my lifetime.

As a female founder and CEO, it is important to me to support other women as they build their businesses.

Nothing kills a CEO's credibility faster than legal, regulatory, and/or ethical questions.

No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

The role of a founder-CEO is extremely lonely. You can't always be fully forthcoming with your board or investors or employees.

I already have a job and being the CEO of Nvidia is a great privilege. It is once in a life time opportunity.

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

Every time I meet with the CEO of a big laptop company, they tell me they 'studied' my design.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

I don't feel I'm at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That's not fair; given CEOs have duties to their shareholders.

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

I'm a friend of the CEO of Twitter and he showed me how to be on it, but it causes such an uproar if what you post is perceived in a negative light.

Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.

It's important to understand the compensation equation that a CEO and a founder has with his or her employees.

There's one thing a CEO should always keep at the front of their mind, and that's customer needs.

As CEO of Unilever, my personal mission is to galvanize our company to be an effective force for good.

Then, as she turned to walk away, Fred dropped the guillotine."So we're making Ev CEO," he said, his fork clenched in his hand. "You're going to get a passive chairman role and a silent board seat. We have some paperwork for you and a recommendation for a lawyer."Jack felt like he had just been hit in the face with a baseball bat. "Say that again," he stuttered to Fred, thinking he had heard incorrectly.Fred repeated himself almost verbatim: We're making Ev CEO. You're getting a passive chairman role. You will have a silent board seat. Here's the paperwork. Call a lawyer.

I want to transform state government. What it takes is a strong CEO type... a leader who can drive things.

Of the 50 largest companies in the United States, you are the only woman CEO. Why?

In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

We are upgrading UEX to a Buy rating; new CEO Roger Lemaitre changes everything.

Being the first female CEO of one of the Big Four, I certainly intend to pay it forward.

Is there a bigger hypocrite than Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the CEO of 'Lords Bank?'

Hell will freeze over before this CEO implements another employee benefit in this culture.

Sometimes, low-level jobs are challenging even to someone with CEO potential.

I am fairly average in my expenses as a person in a technical line/CEO of work.

Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it's about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first.

I don't believe it's appropriate for me or any other CEO to wade into every political dispute. That's not what we're here for.

Some CEO's feel like if the 'opt out of social' they are somehow protected. That is just crazy.