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A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.
Andy Hertzfeld
People
Thought
Back
Jobs
Never
He
Steve
Until
Steve Jobs
Came
Lot
CEO
Apple
The day I was announced as CEO, I think the stock dropped another 20%.
Anne M. Mulcahy
Day
Think
Dropped
Announced
Another
Stock
CEO
I think they, Peter McCullough was, turns out was not a good CEO.
Arthur Rock
Good
Think
Out
CEO
Turns
Peter
Interestingly, many Indian companies where there's a father-and-son combination are being run as joint CEO organizations because the father has not given up running the company and the son is actively involved in running the company, and there is division of responsibilities.
Azim Premji
Son
Father
Responsibilities
Run
Running
Indian
Given
Joint
Division
Combination
Involved
Because
Up
Being
Where
CEO
Interestingly
Organizations
Companies
Many
Company
Actively
Look - this is the terror of being a founder & CEO. It is all your fault. Every decision, every person you hire, every dumb thing you buy or do - ultimately, you're at the end.
Ben Horowitz
Buy
You
Fault
Decision
Every
Look
Terror
Hire
Dumb
Ultimately
End
Person
Being
CEO
Your
Founder
Thing
When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
Ben Horowitz
Music
Me
You
Business
People
Job
Hop
About
Inspiration
Particularly
Hip
Hip-Hop
Lot
Very
Get
Any
Listen
Being
CEO
Useful
Things
I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.
Ben Horowitz
You
People
Fault
Before
Group
Everybody
Say
Running
People Say
Pretty
No Idea
Something
Had
Wrong
Idea
Like
Reaction
Executive
Becoming
Hired
Goes
Managing
Substantial
Mean
CEO
Your
Company
Founder
In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.
Ben Horowitz
Life
You
Run
Born
Nonsense
Confrontation
CEO
CEOs
Level
When I was a CEO, the books on management that I read weren't very much help after the first few months on the job. They were all designed to give you directions on how not to screw up your company.
Ben Horowitz
You
Management
Job
First
Few
Books
Months
Give
Directions
Read
How
Were
Up
Very
After
Screw
CEO
Much
Your
Help
Company
Designed
I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing a proper company culture will help you get your company to do what you want in certain important areas for a very long time.
Ben Horowitz
Time
You
Culture
Will
Job
Long
Long Time
Important
Proper
Area
Knowing
Very
Very Long Time
Get
Getting
Want
CEO
Certain
Your
Help
Company
Designing
The President is the CEO of this business that we call America.
Bill Ackman
Business
President
Call
America
CEO
My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?
Bill Keller
You
Problem
Engineer
Mind-Set
Approach
Everything
Kind
He
Became
How
His
CEO
Dad
I'm trying to become a young CEO, to brand myself in television and movies.
Bow Wow
Myself
Become
Young
Television
Brand
Trying
Movies
CEO
Raise your ambition beyond where you're capable of now. There's nothing about my hometown that said I'd be working with Fortune 50 CEO's, Olympians, at the highest level.
Brendon Burchard
You
Ambition
Nothing
About
Highest
Highest Level
Beyond
Said
Where
Capable
CEO
Working
Your
Fortune
Now
Hometown
Level
Olympians
Raise
Being a successful CEO, where I've driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that's a critical benefit to running the state government.
Bruce Rauner
Government
State
State Government
Benefit
Critical
Running
Results
Driven
Bottom
Bottom Line
Line
Being
Where
CEO
Successful
Teams
I tend to think that free-market conservative principles are the best ones for the CEO of a state.
Bruce Rauner
Best
Conservative
Think
State
Tend
Principles
CEO
At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.
Carl Lewis
Day
You
End Of The Day
Field
Athlete
Track
Track And Field
End
CEO
Your
Professional
Professional Athlete
Company
When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
Carlos Ghosn
You
Trust
Job
Long
First
Both
Shareholders
Head
Feel
Reunited
Continue
Motivation
Conditions
Want
CEO
Your
Company
Second
Two
Need
As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
Carlos Ghosn
Care
Long
Take
Take Care
Long-Term
Term
Mid
Short
Short-Term
CEO
When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
Carlos Ghosn
People
Decision
Back
Come
Makes
CEO
If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
Carly Fiorina
You
Business
Problem
Money
Giving
Teenager
Spending
Parent
Know
Line
Quit
Them
CEO
Who
Larry Fink, 61, tall and outgoing and passionate about his business, is the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of the largest asset-management company in the world, BlackRock.
Carol Loomis
Business
World
Outgoing
About
Tall
Passionate
His
CEO
Company
Chairman
Largest
Larry
Being the first female CEO of one of the Big Four, I certainly intend to pay it forward.
Cathy Engelbert
First
Big
Pay
Female
Intend
Being
CEO
Certainly
Forward
Four
I didn't aspire to be the CEO of Deloitte, but I aspired to be a leader in Deloitte.
Cathy Engelbert
Leader
CEO
Aspire
Aspired
You're supposed to have a passionate purpose as a CEO.
Christopher Voss
You
Purpose
Supposed
Passionate
CEO
As companies become bigger, the global environment more competitive, and the rate of disruptive technological innovation ever faster, the value to shareholders of attracting the best possible CEO increases correspondingly.
Chrystia Freeland
Best
Innovation
Value
Become
Faster
Increases
Possible
Rate
More
Shareholders
Environment
Global
Global Environment
Attracting
Bigger
CEO
Companies
Ever
Technological
Competitive
Disruptive
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