Ceo Quotes

Ceo Quote of the day

Evaluate the people in your life; then promote, demote, or terminate. You're the CEO of your life!

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

I’ve been wondering for a while now if the CEO role is one that I want – and the one that I’m best at.

CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.

I'm building an empire. How do you know I won't be the next [Universal Music Group Chairman/CEO] Doug Morris one day? I'm doing a hell of a job, and I'm on the road to that next level.

The most important thing I've learned since becoming CEO is context. It's how your company fits in with the world and how you respond to it.

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

A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line.

The Mayor of Boston says he won't allow Chick-Fil-A in Boston. Amazing that a mayor now has the power to stop commerce because he personally disagrees with the PERSONAL views of the CEO of a company.

If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do. If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed. No task is too menial.

Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.

You don't see a lot of MBAs as CEOs. The MBAs tend to get hired by the CEOs.

The CEO is, by far, the most important decision for a company... The company is going to rise and fall with the CEO.

I sat down with my long time business partner and Rap-A-Lot CEO James Prince to review the music that we had and quickly came up with an outstanding track list.

No CEO examining books today understands what the hell is going on.

Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.

Never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit.

On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I "step aside" as CEO of GM, and so I have.

The sport [football] is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel... [The National Football League] now needs a guardian, not a CEO.

If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.

CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.

I feel like my job as CEO is always to be pushing people ahead.

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

The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.

After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding - I was fired today.

Any CEO who cannot clearly articulate the intangible assets of his brand and understand its connection to customers, is in trouble.

Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to others is the secret. There's nothing more important.

I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

Well, the manhunt continues for that elusive evil mastermind, but I'm telling you Enron CEO Kenneth Lay remains at large.

I want to see the two CEOs of RIM and (Apple CEO Steve) Jobs working together. The thought of this menage a trois is absolutely hilarious.

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

It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.

We also believe candour benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads often in public eventually misleads himself in private.

The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.

When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.

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

Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.

The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

You don't characterize CEOs as dealmakers or in any one particular area. An important characteristic of a CEO is leader. That's probably the most important characteristic.

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.

In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.

Microsoft loves losing money with online services, so this should stay free forever... unless they get a new CEO who isn't crazy about pouring billions into a hole.

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.

Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.

American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.