Quotes About CEO

Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.

In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren't management books out there that could help me.

If you'd like to get a little more advanced, consider elaborating on your explanatory paragraph with customer testimonials or even a message from your CEO.

Just as a CEO could care less about pay equity, the university administrator is unconcerned with how many of her program graduates secure employment of any particular quality.

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

Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector.

Enter José Antonio González: socialist mayor of the small Granadan city of Jun and part-time hacker, who had brought innovation to his town's democracy by introducing direct public participation through social networks with help from MIT researchers and the support of Twitter's very own CEO.

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

the next time you hear some CEO on a soapbox complaining about how the Simpson jurors couldn't cut it, please remind him that you get the justice you pay for. At

This was Chase's second sweetheart deal in less than a year. Six months before, in March 2008, Chase had "rescued" the imploding investment banking giant Bear Stearns, buying the venerable firm with the aid of $29 billion in guarantees extended by the New York branch of the Federal Reserve—whose chairman of the board of directors at the time was, get this, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

Others were now recruited and, despite their obvious impressions of the man, agreed to sign on. Jim Mattis, a retired four-star general, one of the most respected commanders in the U.S. armed forces; Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil; Scott Pruitt and Betsy DeVos, Jeb Bush loyalists—all of them were now focused on the singular fact that while he might be a peculiar figure, even an absurd-seeming one, he had been elected president

In 1992, a US Fortune 500 CEO had a 36 percent chance of retaining his or her job for the next five years; in 1998, that chance was down to 25 percent. By 2005, the average tenure of an American CEO had dwindled to six years. And the trend is global. In 2011, 14.4 percent of CEOs of the world's 2,500 biggest listed companies left their jobs. Even in Japan, famous for its relative corporate stasis, forced succession among the heads of large corporations quadrupled in 2008.

God is the CEO of our lives. Therefore, Adam and Eve were the first people to be fired from heaven.

The entrepreneur breaks with a company to regain his freedom, but when he becomes CEO, he will end up repeating the same mistake he used to despise. Thus, facing reality instead of living in an imaginary world.

The moment you introduce property rights into the equation, everything changes: the starfish organization turns into a spider. If you really want to centralize an organization, hand property rights to the catalyst and tell him to distribute resources as he sees fit. With power over property rights, the catalyst turns into a CEO and circles become competitive.

The article had noted that studies showing an increased risk of cancer and heart disease hadn't hurt sales, which had continued to rise. "The thing to do with [these studies] is just ride them out," said Joseph Fortunato, chief executive of GNC Corporation.

You are perhaps the most accomplished confidence man since Charles Ponzi. I'd say you were a carnival barker, but that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers. to former Enron CEO Keny Lay