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When I became CEO, I was really worried that we were in commoditized segments that were mature and no longer growing. So we made a radical pivot into health technology because that is one of the world's unmet needs.
Frans van Houten
Health
Needs
Technology
World
Made
Radical
Worried
Segments
Longer
Became
Because
Were
Mature
CEO
Really
Growing
When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'
Gail Kelly
Women
Gender
Example
Tackle
Lead
Lead By Example
Put
Head-On
Support
Make
Policies
Make A Difference
Practices
Inequality
Said
Got
Going
Difference
Place
CEO
Actively
Now
Right
When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
Gary Hamel
Truth
Trust
Politician
Bends
Promise
Beating
Takes
Breaks
CEO
I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
Gary Vaynerchuk
Great
Care
Great Deal
About
More
Wired
Bottom
Bottom Line
Advantage
Like
Deal
Always
Am
Line
Been
Than
Customers
CEO
Even
Competitive
Competitive Advantage
I think it's always healthy to replace the CEO every 10 years.
Gavin McInnes
Healthy
Every
Think
Always
Years
Replace
CEO
You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming.
Ginni Rometty
Great
You
People
Jobs
Support
Because
Around
Understand
CEO
Need
I'm the ninth CEO of IBM. Every one of my predecessors has steered through a technological shift, and every one left the company in a better position than the person before them and prepared this company with a very strong balance sheet to allow it to continue to invest for the next shift.
Ginni Rometty
Balance
Strong
Better
Before
Every
Ninth
Steered
Through
Invest
Allow
Sheet
Continue
Shift
Left
Very
Than
Person
Predecessors
Them
CEO
Next
Company
Prepared
Technological
Position
When I was still settling into being a CEO, I wasted a lot of time driving initiatives designed to please others, acting as if someone wouldn't let me do what I wanted to do with Redfin.
Glenn Kelman
Time
Me
Others
Settling
Please
Someone
Driving
Still
Lot
Being
Wanted
CEO
Acting
Initiatives
Wasted
Designed
When I was 28, running products for a company I'd co-founded, the CEO called to say that I had a problem with the board, that I probably couldn't overcome it, that I'd have to leave the company.
Glenn Kelman
Problem
Overcome
Say
Running
Had
Leave
Board
CEO
Products
Company
I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.
Gordon Bethune
Life
Time
Safety
Pilot
Mechanic
Fly
My Life
Lost
Every
Every Time
Considerate
Aircraft
Spent
Airline
Airplane
Risk
Take
Never
Know
Also
Always
Am
Improve
CEO
Manufacturer
Who
Need
It used to be that you would go in to see a CEO, and you would ask them, 'Is your company for sale?' and if they said 'No, we have no interest in selling,' that was sort of the end of the conversation.
Henry Kravis
You
Conversation
Would
See
No Interest
Sort
Said
Go
Sale
End
Selling
Interest
Them
CEO
Ask
Your
Used
Company
Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.
Indra Nooyi
You
Learning
Organization
Think
Increase
Approach
Way
Must
Never
Because
Continually
Just
Forgotten
Just Because
Landed
CEO
Your
I'm a CEO of a public company. You have to show decorum.
Ivan Glasenberg
You
Public
Public Company
CEO
Decorum
Show
Company
I've said I will be CEO as long as my colleagues want me.
Ivan Glasenberg
Me
Will
Long
Colleagues
Said
Want
CEO
In my role as executive vice president of development and acquisitions for the Trump Organization and founder and CEO of my own lifestyle brand, I've had a lot of practice negotiating.
Ivanka Trump
Organization
Practice
Own
President
Negotiating
My Own
Lifestyle
Had
Development
Executive
Trump
Lot
Brand
Role
Vice
Vice President
CEO
Acquisitions
Founder
Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
Jack Welch
Day
You
Culture
People
Worth
Employees
Every
Thousand
About
Could
Name
Know
Talk
Cultural
Just
Want
Public
CEO
CEOs
Teaching
Moment
Who
Moments
Company
Each
Each Day
Jerks
Speeches
The reality is that companies are full of things that are left unspoken. And even when they are out in the open, the CEO is almost always the last to know.
Jason Fried
Reality
Out
Open
Almost
Unspoken
Know
Always
Left
CEO
Full
Companies
Even
Things
Last
My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to 'Roc-A-Wear'. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of 'Roc-A-Fella' records, which lead to Def Jam.
Jay-Z
Music
Me
You
Culture
Entrepreneur
Passion
Records
Lifestyle
Lead
Leads
Know
Forced
Led
Jam
Influences
Which
CEO
As a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and public company CEO, nothing irks me more than when a startup founder talks about wanting to cash in with an initial public offering.
Jay Samit
Me
Entrepreneur
Angel
Nothing
Startup
About
Cash
More
Investor
Talks
Than
Offering
Wanting
Public
Public Company
CEO
Initial
Company
Serial
Founder
Every time a twenty-something CEO turns down a multibillion-dollar offer for a company that has little or no revenues, it hits a raw nerve in me. Unlike most professionals, I am not shocked by the seemingly bizarre behavior of those founders who pursue their vision beyond all rational thought or monetary reward.
Jay Samit
Time
Me
Vision
Behavior
Reward
Thought
Down
Every
Every Time
Unlike
Those
Bizarre
Nerve
Seemingly
Rational
Pursue
Raw
Beyond
Most
Am
Revenues
Shocked
Offer
Hits
Little
CEO
Turns
Who
Company
Professionals
Monetary
Founders
If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my view vastly outweighs even the best compliance program you can put in place.
Jed S. Rakoff
Best
You
Crime
Other
Compliance
Deterrent
Vastly
Put
Executive
Him
Effect
Send
Senior
Committing
Jail
Place
CEO
View
Even
Her
Program
You can stay too long in a job, that's for sure. But by the same token, in the 12 years I have been CEO of GE, there have been four CEOs of Toshiba. So there's too short a time to do it, and there's too long a time to do it.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
Time
You
Job
Long
Too
GE
Stay
Sure
Been
Years
Same
Short
CEO
CEOs
Token
Four
Taking the time to identify and infuse values certainly does affect outcomes and is one of the most important things to get right as the CEO.
Jennifer Hyman
Time
Values
Important
Important Things
Outcomes
Taking
Most
Identify
Does
Affect
Get
The Most Important
Infuse
CEO
Certainly
Right
Things
If you spend your time away from work looking at emails and making sure your inbox went down to zero, that's not an effective way to spend your time as a CEO or an entrepreneur. Often times, those emails aren't that important.
Jennifer Hyman
Work
Time
You
Entrepreneur
Important
Looking
Down
Spend
Way
Emails
Those
Sure
Making
Effective
Effective Way
Times
Often
CEO
Your
Away
Zero
I am the CEO and co-founder of Purpose - a social movement incubator and agency. We work on ways to help millions of people combine their power as citizens, consumers and cultural agents.
Jeremy Heimans
Work
People
Power
Incubator
Ways
Citizens
Purpose
Consumers
Combine
Am
Cultural
Movement
Social
Agency
CEO
Agents
Help
Millions
Millions Of People
Every time a new CEO came, I got a promotion till I was made CEO myself.
Jochen Zeitz
Time
Myself
Made
Every
Every Time
Promotion
New
Got
Till
Came
CEO
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