Top 40 Chenault Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Chenault

#1. I am a rebel, and I relate to the rebel spirit in Chenault [from the Rhum Dairy].

#2. Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.

Kenneth Chenault

#3. I had very little exposure to business growing up. I also was very focused on the Civil Rights Movement. And I saw law as a vehicle to really bring about substantial change.

Kenneth Chenault

#4. I think what's important to understand is if the United States hits the debt ceiling and is unable to pay its debts, the consequences will be immediate and dramatic.

Kenneth Chenault

#5. I was attracted to law school because I believed it would help me prepare for a career in the real world.

Kenneth Chenault

#6. Small businesses create half of the jobs in the private sector.

Kenneth Chenault

#7. You've got to develop relationships. You can't do things just in a formal context.

Kenneth Chenault

#8. Regular feedback is one of the hardest things to drive through an organization.

Kenneth Chenault

#9. I moved back to Boston and joined some of my Harvard classmates at Bain & Co. I quickly realized I enjoyed business.

Kenneth Chenault

#10. Whenever I think about an issue, I always argue the opposite side of it. So, when I ultimately decide on a course of action, I've already been through all the conceivable scenarios, and I'm going to go for it.

Kenneth I. Chenault

#11. If people support independently owned small businesses in their community, they can make a difference.

Kenneth Chenault

#12. It's not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but those most adaptive to change. Over the past 10 years, the need for, and focus on, adaptability has accelerated.

Kenneth I. Chenault

#13. Dedicate yourself to a core set of values. Without them, you will never be able to find personal fulfillment, and you will never be able to lead effectively.

Kenneth I. Chenault

#14. Harvard Law provided an opportunity to learn from a faculty that had shaped the laws of our country and helped to change the world around us. It also offered an opportunity to study with the brightest students and to test myself against the best.

Kenneth Chenault

#15. At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.

Kenneth Chenault

#16. My message to Washington is the United States has gone through incredible crises, and our leaders have been able to find common ground. And that's what our leaders have to do.

Kenneth Chenault

#17. For me, one of the lessons from 9/11 is that you have to give the organization context for how you're acting, and you've got to communicate constantly, in this case particularly with all the changes that were occurring in the financial marketplace and in the economy.

Kenneth Chenault

#18. My father taught me, in boxing, that when you - particularly when you get hit in the face for the first time - you're going to panic. That instead of panicking, just accept it. Stay calm. And any time anybody hits you, they always leave themselves open to be hit.

Rudy Giuliani

#19. My message to Washington is very simple. Face reality. Be leaders. Demonstrate accountability. Engage in principle compromise. And understand your job is to find solutions.

Kenneth Chenault

#20. For a number of major companies, if you can't access the commercial markets, you can't fund your business. That's a big problem. You can't pay your bills.

Kenneth Chenault

#21. There was a strong focus on performance and respect for people. And one of the points that my father always made was that with all the challenges and obstacles and barriers, the one thing you can control is your performance. And that is one thing I have tried to adhere to throughout my career.

Kenneth Chenault

#22. There are clearly some policies that need to change, and the reputation of the credit card industry is not high. Reforms need to take place.

Kenneth Chenault

#23. I've always been a very competitive person.

Kenneth Chenault

#24. I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

M. Night Shyamalan

#25. Companies will need to pursue a more diversified business model, but I think those companies that have what I call a focused diversified business model will be more successful.

Kenneth Chenault

#26. What's increasingly clear is that when you are open to a discussion of leadership, and you're relating it to your company, it is much easier to get people to become open.

Kenneth Chenault

#27. In honor of my goddaughter's christening, I will perform 'The Real Slim Shady,' by Eminem," he says confidently.

Sophie Kinsella

#28. I say this all the time: Everyone can make a conscious choice to be a leader.

Kenneth Chenault

#29. Of this diversion the Scots are so fond, that, when the weather will permit, you may see a multitude of all ranks, from the senator of justice to the lowest tradesman, mingled together, in their shirts, and following the balls with utmost eagerness.

Tobias Smollett

#30. Lolly nods. Though when is the right time for that? I asked her for a new sports bra since I outgrew my last one and she looked at me as if I'd just asked her to buy me a pony.

Robin Epstein

#31. Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection between the two is the one the world is waiting for, especially the new generation. And the first hunger will empower the second.

Jim Wallis

#32. For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people questions on some of the most difficult issues that you confront. 'Take me through where you felt you had to compromise your values.'

Kenneth Chenault

#33. Recognize that being one of the only black people in an organization, or just in a meeting, automatically makes you very visible. Use this to help yourself. Look at it as an opportunity, and leverage that opportunity by making a visible contribution.

Kenneth I. Chenault

#34. Maybe the kinds of people who try to shape the world feel like they're smarter than chaos itself.

Hugh Howey

#35. Capitalism is supposedly free enterprise. Supposedly about the free individual. But capitalism itself is so massive that the guy on the street gets caught in paying rent, taxes, and he doesn't own himself at all.

Frank Capra