Top 41 Business Ceo Quotes
#1. 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
#2. From the CEO, receptionist to the office manager, everybody at your startup should know the one-minute pitch of your business
Timi Nadela
#3. Your personal life is now known as Facebook's data. Its CEO's personal life is now known as mind your own business.
Glenn Greenwald
#4. America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
Barack Obama
#5. Through your influence, vision, ethics and authenticity you create a better reality for your family, community and organisation, where those around you and those who follow you are inspired to dream, learn and act
Craig Dent
#7. From the CEO to the receptionist to the office manager, everybody at your startup business should know that one-minute elevator pitch.
Timi Nadela
#8. For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.
Arianna Huffington
#9. Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.
Douglas Leone
#10. I'm a capitalist, I'm a CEO, I run a big business, I'm an employer.
Sophia Amoruso
#11. A business that is not growing after all, is dying.
Shawn Casemore
#12. If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
Carly Fiorina
#13. A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.
Mary Kay Ash
#14. The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.
John Edwards
#15. Larry Fink, 61, tall and outgoing and passionate about his business, is the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of the largest asset-management company in the world, BlackRock.
Carol Loomis
#16. In business, sometimes you have to change the CEO in order to change the direction of the company.
Thomas Massie
#17. In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.
Paul Allen
#18. The banks don't have anything - no rights whatsoever. The banks are shareholders of SLEC, and SLEC has no rights ... I am the CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, which runs the business in F1. From this point of view, I own F1.
Bernie Ecclestone
#19. The chief executive officer is also the chief sales officer. He or she is responsible for the success of the company and making a profit. The closer the CEO is to the everyday selling process, bringing in business, the more successful the company will become.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#20. As a CEO of a large company, clearly we need policies in the U.S. government that are pro-business, because at the end of the day, we all work within the framework of a country's policies.
Indra Nooyi
#21. Armstrong was perfect for their goals - an extraordinary combination of athletic talent, drive, ambition, and ruthlessness. And once he began winning, he became the chairman and CEO of the business of making himself rich and famous.
Reed Albergotti
#22. I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods - that's where I'm really happy.
Matthew McConaughey
#23. 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
#24. It's through diverse opinions and perspectives that a dynamic organisation can drive innovation and create its competitive advantage.
Craig Dent
#25. 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
#26. In the world of business, being slow is a losing move.
Shawn Casemore
#27. If you know what your customers want, the other aspect to know is what are your competitors doing?
Shawn Casemore
#28. The business world traditionally rewards people for being closer to the top (case in point: outrageous CEO salaries) or for being closer to the transactions (investment bankers, salespeople).
Eric Schmidt
#29. Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame.
Brandi L. Bates
#30. The CEO of AT&T told an interviewer back in 2005 that he wanted to introduce a new business model to the Internet: charging companies like Google and Yahoo! to reliably reach Internet users on the AT&T network.
Marvin Ammori
#31. I'm calling for us all to be The Inspired CEO, Conscious Evolutionary Officers of our own lives and businesses.
Tia Walker
#32. 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
#33. Don't live like a CEO when you're still a sandwich artist.
Sophia Amoruso
#34. Just imagine how fast, innovative and excellent your business will be once every single teammate - from the janitor to the executive - begins to see themselves as the CEO of their own area of responsibility.
Robin S. Sharma
#35. We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn't, we'd probably be out of business by now.
John Raese
#36. There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.
Fred Wilson
#37. There's a lot that goes into being Tim McGraw or Kenny Chesney. They have great songs, their show is great, they're very fit. When you look at somebody who takes care of themselves, takes care of their business, that's what every CEO would do.
Jake Owen
#38. The President is the CEO of this business that we call America.
Bill Ackman
#39. Each segment of the worm is directly reproduced as a whole worm, just as each cell of the American CEO can produce a new CEO.
Jean Baudrillard
#40. Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.
Peter Bart
#41. CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.
Daniel Goleman
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