Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
John Irving
Alexander Pope
John Ruskin
Edgar Allan Poe
John Burnside
Jane Austen
All authors
Today's birthdays
1883 - Jose Ortega y Gasset
1860 - James M. Barrie
1844 - Belle Boyd
1962 - Gary Hume
1918 - Mike Wallace
1969 - Joe Carnahan
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Designer
Businessman
Chef
Activist
Saint
Businesswoman
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
CEO Quotes
CEO Quotes
When Jack Welch was the CEO of General Electric, he was able to produce record growth year after year by using a few simple principles relentlessly. The system of management he used was called differentiation.
Clay Clark
Management
Simple
Year
Few
Relentlessly
System
Able
Record
General
He
Principles
Jack
After
CEO
Produce
Used
Electric
Using
Differentiation
Growth
When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.
Corey Haim
Life
Family
You
Money
Become
Young
Automatically
CEO
Your
A lot of people say that I'm an activist CEO. I just think I'm a responsible leader of a business.
Dan Schulman
Business
People
Leader
Think
Say
Responsible
People Say
Lot
Just
CEO
Activist
The inequality between CEO compensation and the compensation received by workers and stockholders has grown to such an extent that it endangers our economy and and our society.
Danny K. Davis
Society
Our
Between
Economy
Inequality
CEO
Workers
Grown
Compensation
Received
Extent
I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.
Dave Chappelle
Never
Since
Comedian
Been
CEO
Really
Fourteen
The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.
David A. Siegel
Big
States
Run
Like
Big Company
CEO
Company
United
United States
Need
Because one of the main jobs of a CEO is to set the vision and strategy for the company, I'm a big believer in making one of the founders the default CEO.
David Cohen
Vision
Big
Strategy
Jobs
Main
Because
Big Believer
Making
CEO
Company
Believer
Founders
Default
Set
Lucy Kellaway's columns in the 'Financial Times' lend themselves to podcasts because they usually consist of her giving a brisk ticking off to some CEO or subversively wondering whether we're really as busy as we pretend we are.
David Hepworth
Financial
Giving
Busy
Consist
Pretend
Some
Columns
Ticking
Because
Off
Times
Wondering
Whether
Lend
CEO
Themselves
Really
Lucy
Her
If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales.
Daymond John
Experience
Invest
Him
Sales
CEO
Her
Need
The first step in changing a culture, I believe, starts with the senior leadership team - and with the CEO.
Denise Morrison
Leadership
Culture
First
Believe
Starts
Changing
Step
First Step
Senior
CEO
Team
Paul Otellini, the former CEO of Intel, I worked with while I was still with VMware. I knew Ram Shriram through the tech industry.
Diane Greene
Ram
Through
Knew
Industry
Still
Intel
While
Former
Paul
CEO
Worked
Tech
One of the things that I think I do well as a CEO is that I'm present. When I'm with my employees, I'm there in the moment.
Dick Costolo
Employees
Think
One Of The Things
Well
CEO
Moment
Things
Present
I'm so glad I didn't become a doctor, because I do more than any doctor can do. I am an administrator, a CEO, doctor, psychiatrist, an activist, a campaign funder. I think I did well.
Dikembe Mutombo
Doctor
Become
Think
Administrator
More
Glad
Well
Because
Am
Campaign
Than
Did
Any
Psychiatrist
CEO
Activist
Being a CEO requires a specific skill set, and a background in engineering equips individuals with the ability to plan logically and make decisions that fit properly within the context of the business.
Dinesh Paliwal
Business
Engineering
Background
Logically
Ability
Properly
Individuals
Make
Within
Context
Fit
Being
Decisions
Plan
CEO
Skill
Requires
Specific
Set
As CEO of Cold Stone Creamery, we used a concept called 'search and reapply,' which meant that if we found better ways of doing something, then we would do it.
Doug Ducey
Better
Cold
Ways
Would
Something
Better Ways
Concept
Doing
Stone
Which
CEO
Then
Meant
Used
Search
Found
You meet with a CEO or founder. You talk about sales, engineering, product management and give some ideas or suggestions. And the founder quickly understands that you really can help them both operationally and from a strategic standpoint.
Douglas Leone
You
Management
Engineering
Meet
Some
About
Give
Both
Ideas
Talk
Understands
Sales
Quickly
Them
CEO
Really
Product
Help
Standpoint
Strategic
Founder
Suggestions
Remember when those CD-ROMs from AOL came in the mail almost every day? The company was considered ubiquitous, invincible. Former AOL CEO Steve Case was no less a genius than Mark Zuckerberg.
Douglas Rushkoff
Day
Every Day
Genius
Remember
Every
Mark
Mark Zuckerberg
Considered
Those
Case
Mail
Remember When
Almost
Invincible
Almost Every Day
Steve
Came
Than
Former
CEO
Less
Company
No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.
Drew Houston
You
Tells
Born
No-One
CEO
As a goalkeeper, I needed good players around me. I needed Nemanja Vidic, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Wayne Rooney. It's the same as a CEO.
Edwin van der Sar
Good
Me
Wayne
Around
Goalkeeper
Same
CEO
Players
Needed
I'm not a millionaire, a billionaire, a CEO, or a movie star.
Elizabeth Emken
Millionaire
Movie
Movie Star
CEO
Billionaire
Star
When I first met YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, I was moderating a panel she was on for Harvard alums. We were both wrapping up our maternity leaves. She had just had her fifth child; I'd just had my second. We traded tips on maternity clothes, and I peppered her with questions about how she finds her balance.
Emily Chang
Balance
First
Met
Clothes
YouTube
Panel
Our
Harvard
Finds
Wrapping
About
Both
Had
She
How
Traded
Leaves
Were
Maternity
Questions
Up
Child
Susan
Just
Tips
CEO
Fifth
Her
Second
Silicon Valley's involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully - who was the CEO of Apple - had dinner with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in 1993. And we're all going, like, 'What's going on? Why would we have dinner with the president?'
Eric Schmidt
Dinner
President
President Clinton
Valley
Would
John
Silicon
Dates
Had
Like
Involvement
Gore
Clinton
Going
Vice
Vice President
Which
CEO
Scully
Who
Washington
Event
Why
Apple
When you watch women who are a great mom, a great wife, and a great CEO, like, it's very inspiring. Like, being friends with Jessica Alba makes you work harder.
Erin Foster
Work
Mom
Great
You
Women
Wife
Inspiring
Like
Makes
Friends
Very
Being
CEO
Who
Harder
Jessica
Watch
Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.
F. Sionil Jose
Ego
Follower
President
Everyone
Later
No-One
Leaders
Mere
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Wants
CEO
Professional
Chairman
Societies
Fractured
If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
Fabrice Grinda
You
Face
Employees
Become
Press
Extroverted
Kind
More
Facing
Investors
Person
Public
CEO
Speaking
Naturally
Company
We have a network of contacts, where there are very few boards where we can't reach out to the CEO or key board members.
Frank Quattrone
Key
Few
Members
Out
Network
Contacts
Reach
Very
Where
Board
Boards
CEO
Load more quotes
No more ceo quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
Along
Dead
Always
Cup