Best Cio Quotes

#1. A digital-ready CIO is a visionary and transformational leader, not just a transactional manager, for the long term.

Pearl Zhu

#2. From average to great is a leadership journey; it takes vision, passion, confidence, problem-solving skills, and teamwork to match up.

Pearl Zhu

#3. The CIO must now wear many hats, and see the forest through the trees.

Pearl Zhu

#4. The Quran holds the answer to all. Have you opened it?

Zarina Bibi

#5. It is what the "I" stands for - Information, Innovation, Insight, Improvement, or Influence, that needs to be represented by CIOs in the Boardroom.

Pearl Zhu

#6. We could see the Teamsters coming in from New Jersey, the AFL-CIO from Chicago. You could see all of the people being bused in.

Scott Walker

#7. Wagner thought Rossini unserious; Rossini thought Wagner 'lacked sun'. Wagner also became the butt of a phrase Rossini had used down the years to describe musicians about whom he had certain reservations - "He has some beautiful moments but some bad quarters of an hour!

Richard Osborne

#8. The CEO era gave rise to the CFO (not certified flying object, as you might imagine, but chief financial officer) and, most recently, the CIO, chief investment officer, a nice boost for the bookkeeper you can't afford to give a raise ...

William Safire

#9. I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

Questlove

#10. Reagan is described as delivering Barry Goldwater's doctrine with John F. Kennedy's technique.

H.W. Brands

#11. The CIO needs to be an enterprise 'polyglot,' to master both business language and IT terminology, and beyond.

Pearl Zhu

#12. Emergency department physicians spent 44 percent of their time entering data into electronic medical records, clicking up to 4,000 times during a 10-hour shift. - Becker's Health IT & CIO Review magazine, October 11, 2013

Robert Wachter

#13. The tough choice facing CIOs is not about only picking one identity as either being strategic or tactical, but about - when acting as a strategic leader, when playing as a tactical manager.

Pearl Zhu

#14. Outlier" CIOs have better capabilities to connect innovation dots.

Pearl Zhu

#15. CIOs may not be the subject matter expert of all IT domains, but they should understand technology enough to ensure they have a keen sense of judgment on the priorities for IT investment.

Pearl Zhu

#16. Never wound a foe when you can kill him. Dead men don't claim vengeance.

George R R Martin

#17. I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.

Ron Kind

#18. The CMO is expected to spend more on technology than the CIO by 2017.

Marc Benioff

#19. The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.

Andy Stern

#20. Don't allow another human to decide your priorities. Their decisions are made without the slightest concern for how you're inconvenienced.

John-Talmage Mathis

#21. A bridge-like CIO has the mind to think via the multidimensional lens, the gut to innovate fearlessly; the strategy to lead wisely and the skill to move progressively.

Pearl Zhu

#22. The difference between an "Atypical CIO" and a "Stereotypical CIO" is not about the physical identity but at the mindset level.

Pearl Zhu

#23. Ever so quietly, she inched closer to Vincenzo's corpse. Corpse. Such a nasty word. The whole business made her sick. Focus, Sophia, she reminded herself. Maybe there was a clue she could see if she got closer. "Not one more move, Miss Mancini." Without missing a

Ava Mallory

#24. A CIO needs to be better-rounded than to have a title of "logical" or "creative.

Pearl Zhu

#25. We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians.

James P. Hoffa

#26. CIOs need to be IT evangelists and learn to sell, speak business.

Pearl Zhu

#27. The CIO is a serious partner in the inner circle to creating value-added strategies and enabling deeper insights into the opportunities IT can do.

Pearl Zhu

#28. That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

Debra Messing

#29. It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane.

Prentice Marshall

#30. "Ju" means being natural or in other words the way which is natural and in accords with the truth of the universe and the one that human beings have to follow. Also, "Ju" may mean anything reasonable, just and honorable, accordingly noble: namely the realization of Truth , Good and Beauty.

Kyuzo Mifune

#31. You never know when it's going to be the last time you see somebody and don't want to miss your chance to say good-bye.

Rainbow Rowell

#32. When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.

Randall L. Stephenson

#33. The wisdom and goal of innovative CIOs are to help the organization think clearly about the two horizons of future, the short-term gain, and the long term win.

Pearl Zhu

#34. There's no real manual on being a parent. There's no real manual on being a wife. I keep reminding myself, My mother did all this, only she never got to leave the house. OK, I can do this. We're all learning on our own learning curve.

Kelly Ripa

#35. Digital-savvy CIOs can envision the upcoming business trends and have both "sense and sensitivity" to understand people and lead effortlessly.

Pearl Zhu

#36. In modern parlance we speak of the interconnectedness of all life, suggesting that one cannot really be healthy when the environment is sick.

Richard A. Young

#37. The head of the AFL-CIO endorsed John Kerry, saying, 'The time has come to come behind one man, one leader, one candidate.' Then he said, 'And until we find that man, we will endorse John Kerry.'

Conan O'Brien

#38. 3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.

Bill Gates

#39. The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.

John T. Flynn