201 CEO Quotes for You to Enjoy

Personal ambition is 'I want to be CEO.' Greater vision ambition is, 'I want to lead this company so that people want to work here.' Srikumar Rao

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I don't think everyone wants to be a CEO. Stacy Brown-Philpot

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Once I graduated college, I did a couple of different sort of unique internship positions, if you will. I spent three months in my mother's office, who was then the CEO of our company, and I really got to just sit in every meeting that she had, and I would write down questions on a yellow legal pad. Stephanie McMahon

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I always felt the gifts you need as governor were more suited for my personality. I'm a good team player, but I'm not a policy wonk. In Congress, you need 218 votes to make anything happen. When you're governor, you're the CEO of the state. You establish the vision and standards for the state. You're the leader. Steve Largent

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

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The first lesson my kids got about the ocean was to respect it. You can never turn your back on the ocean when you're dealing with tides and currents - factors beyond your control. You have to be the CEO of your family on the water. CEO stands for 'constant eyes on,' and it's something I never forget. Summer Sanders

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I definitely think it's important for a CEO of any large corporation to understand how policy impacts their business and be aware of the decisions being made in Congress. Suzan DelBene

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

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The role of president, as George W. Bush commented in 2000, requires vision, management, and an eye for talent - not so different from that of CEO. But during the first years of Carter's presidency, his Cabinet was anything but businesslike, beset by infighting and meetings that ambled. Tahl Raz

In business, sometimes you have to change the CEO in order to change the direction of the company. Thomas Massie

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I am who I am, and I'm focused on that, and being a great CEO of Apple. Tim Cook

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I liked being CEO of Blockbuster, but my job is to put it on the bottom line for shareholders. Wayne Huizenga

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Don't be afraid to let someone go if it's not working. You're not a bad boss. You're not a bad CEO. Whitney Wolfe Herd

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The women at all levels of the entertainment industry - from interns to Oscar winners - who kept quiet to protect their careers should be a lesson to every CEO and HR department. Whitney Wolfe Herd

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If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Since United States military operations in Iraq began in 2003, I have visited Iraq at least 15 times. But unlike politicians who visit, the question for me has never been why the U.S. got into Iraq. Instead, as the CEO of Blackwater, the urgent question was how the company I head could perform the duties asked of us by the U.S. State Department. Erik Prince

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