Best Ceo Quotes

#1. The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new ideas.

Patrick Dixon

#2. Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.

Warren Buffett

#3. As CEO, I accept responsibility for the irregularities that have been found in diesel engines and have therefore requested the Supervisory Board to agree on terminating my function as CEO of the Volkswagen Group.

Martin Winterkorn

#4. I wish I was CEO of 4chan instead

Yishan Wong

#5. I've developed a much greater respect for our politicians and every high-tech CEO. It's very easy to read about the things they did that you, of course, would have avoided in hindsight.

Michael J. Saylor

#6. Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.

Madonna Ciccone

#7. Entrepreneurial employees possess what eBay CEO John Donahoe calls the founder mind-set. As he put it to us, People with the founder mind-set drive change, motivate people, and just get stuff done.

Reid Hoffman

#8. It's through diverse opinions and perspectives that a dynamic organisation can drive innovation and create its competitive advantage.

Craig Dent

#9. The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company.

Peter Drucker

#10. Some CEO's feel like if the 'opt out of social' they are somehow protected. That is just crazy.

Sandy Carter

#11. At least half the job of CEO is communication - because of human nature. People fear what they don't know. If the board wasn't hearing that things were going well, they assumed that things must be going badly.

Biz Stone

#12. As the CEO running my life, running Meghan Trainor, I have to say 'no' to things all the time, and it's been very uncomfortable and very difficult. I've said 'no' and it's actually worked - even when I never thought it would work.

Meghan Trainor

#13. 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

#14. General Electric CEO Jack Welch said in Winning: No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.

Eric Schmidt

#15. If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

Noam Chomsky

#16. You hire the best people you can possibly find. Then it's up to you to create an environment where great people decide to stay and invest their time.

Rich Lesser

#17. The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've ... I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward.

John Katzman

#18. 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.

Jack Welch

#19. But like the best empire builders, he was both very determined and very skeptical. It's like [former Intel CEO] Andy Grove says, 'only the paranoid survive.

David Kirkpatrick

#20. In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.

Mike Krzyzewski

#21. 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

#22. 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.

Sophia Amoruso

#23. could act like a CEO or I could really be a CEO, which means doing whatever I need to do (including asking obvious questions) to make the best decision for my company. No matter where you are in life, you'll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you.

Sophia Amoruso

#24. The best way to deal in a transparent world is just be transparent. Let your life be authentic and let people look in. Because if they want to find out, they're gonna find out. And so to me it's given me a greater sense of accountability as a CEO. It's given me a greater opportunity to lead.

Michael Hyatt

#25. I worked with the best - Givenchy, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent - and it gave me an ability to be confident. It turned me into a CEO and a creative director and a brand.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#26. President Obama, by the way, is, I think, making his first presidential European trip. And while he's there in Europe, he plans to fire the CEO's of BMW and Volkswagen.

David Letterman

#27. You are the first brand ambassador of your company

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#28. You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders.

Sam Altman

#29. I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.

Evan Spiegel

#30. The CEO of Monsanto had been disemboweled alive.

Nancy Kress

#31. I've always managed by walking around. Any CEO or leader who spends the majority of his time in his office is not doing his job.

Donny Deutsch

#32. Yeah, take it from me. He may try to sell himself to you along with the company. And then there is Roberto, the CEO of our acquisition target. He also seems to be a bit of a flirt. Those two are like moths around a light bulb with you. Any idea how you would react if they both came after you?

Karynne Summars

#33. Today, President Obama finally met with BP's CEO, Tony Hayward, but the meeting was only scheduled 20 minutes. Call me crazy, but I think it should take more time to discuss an oil spill than it does to get your oil checked.

Jimmy Fallon

#34. From: Christian Grey
Subject: My Life's Mission ...
Date: September 5, 2011 09:25
To: Anastasia Grey
Is to spoil you, Mrs. Grey.
And keep you safe because I love you.
Christian Grey
Smitten CEO, Grey Enterprises Holdings Inc.

E.L. James

#35. In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

Ben Horowitz

#36. Your job as CEO is to be the fastest person of the company.

Bing Gordon

#37. 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.

Jimmy Johnson

#38. 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

#39. Hell will freeze over before this CEO implements another employee benefit in this culture.

Neal Patterson

#40. The essence of the CEO's job is strategy, not tactics; plan, not do; policy, not implementation.

William Kraut

#41. People are kind of upset with British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward. Over the weekend, he was out on his yacht. And when President Obama found out that Tony Hayward was on his yacht, he was so angry, he missed a putt.

David Letterman

#42. 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

#43. I've said I will be CEO as long as my colleagues want me.

Ivan Glasenberg

#44. As CEO, my main job is editor-in-chief.

Jack Dorsey

#45. Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

Barbara Boxer

#46. As she nurtured her business relationships, Hall spent less time meeting teachers and parents and visiting schools. Often, she seemed to approach her job more as a CEO than an educator.

Anonymous

#47. I don't feel I'm at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That's not fair; given CEOs have duties to their shareholders.

Kenneth C. Griffin

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

Keith Rabois

#49. Who lives in true poverty - The janitor who is grateful for the chocolate chip pancakes his 6 year old helped his wife prepare for dinner, or The CEO who is ungrateful for the type of wine served with his 5-star meal?

Julia Rose

#50. Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it's about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first.

Andrea Jung

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

Bill Gates

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

Max McKeown