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Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused. -- Lois Wyse
I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs. -- Mark Pincus
I think most CEOs think their stock is undervalued, probably. -- Richard Kinder
CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one. -- Mark McKinnon
Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie. -- Marc Andreessen
You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars. -- James Daly
CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios. -- Dan Jenkins
Whenever teenage girls and corporate CEOs covet the same new technology, something extraordinary is happening. -- Michael J. Saylor
ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working. -- Magic Johnson
The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds. -- Dillon Burroughs
CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs. -- Jay Samit
Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top. -- Andrea Jung
CEOs will struggle to keep themselves and their companies current, relevant, and ahead of the curve. -- Nick Morgan
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy. -- Michael Porter
You don't see a lot of MBAs as CEOs. The MBAs tend to get hired by the CEOs. -- Michael Ellsberg
Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top. -- Joyce Meyer
CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence. -- Daniel Goleman
We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage. -- Iris Dement
In his first speech as Speaker, Boehner thanked his loved ones - tobacco lobbyists, the oil companies, the CEOs. -- Jay Leno
It doesn't make much sense and it's nil premium. They're going to have co-CEOs...which is a very uncomfortable structure. -- Martin Sorrell
CEOs should be measured by the value they create into the community, the shareholders and the members of the company. -- Miguel Reynolds Brandao
CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about. -- Bernie Sanders
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s) -- Bill McKibben
I think the greatest CEOs in the United States, business, anyway, are the ones you don't hear too much about. -- Edward Zander
Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure. -- Yishan Wong
[T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss. -- Henry Blodget
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
I think from a moral issue, CEOs should not be making - whether it's 270 or 300 times more than their workers are making. -- Hillary Clinton
CEOs must embrace the role of serving as the public face of the company to their customer community and the marketplace at large. -- Simon Mainwaring
At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs-as long as no one is watching, anything goes. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
CEOs are paid for doing a terrible job. If the system wasn't so messed up, guys like me wouldn't make this kind of money. -- Carl Icahn
Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them. -- Robert Metcalfe
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
The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs. -- Bernie Sanders
Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser. -- Criss Jami
You don't characterize CEOs as dealmakers or in any one particular area. An important characteristic of a CEO is leader. That's probably the most important characteristic. -- Michael Ramsey
CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections. -- Dan Maffei
If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy. -- Gene Simmons
I met with several public company CEOs to learn about their experiences of going public and listened to as many earnings calls as I possibly could. -- Jon Oringer
The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis. -- Morley Safer
What the polls don't tell you is, though other polls do, is that if you do a study of CEOs, top executives in corporations, they're liberal. -- Noam Chomsky
Without question, CEOs, executives and employees in companies in the United States and around the world have rallied to face the challenge of a social media marketplace. -- Simon Mainwaring
CEOs are no different than the guy in the mailroom. They all have to learn how to manage better the risk created by our increasingly risk-shifting world. -- Lewis Schiff
Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats - the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms - while the field hands are left with the scraps. -- Bill Moyers
The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week. -- Kevin P. Ryan
It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life. -- Jerry Greenfield
Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too. -- Hillary Clinton
There's something to be said for CEOs' entering politics: In theory, they have management expertise and financial savvy. Then again, it didn't work so well with Dick Cheney. -- Nicholas Kristof
I picked up business skills along the way, but there are things you learn at school like speaking the language of business so you can speak with CEOs. -- Shawne Merriman
The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.' -- Hans Rosling
'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
I want to see the two CEOs of RIM and [Apple CEO Steve] Jobs working together. The thought of this mÃ©nage Ã trois is absolutely hilarious. -- Jean-Louis Gassee
Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there's something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO. -- Andrew Mason
For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management. -- Ginni Rometty
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings. -- Edmund Phelps
Technology affects everyone, from agriculture to broadcasting to automotive to content to travel to leisure to everything, so we're seeing an incredible array of CEOs from every different industry. -- Gary Shapiro
From this perspective, we were all divine Shakespeares, creating and playing the roles of muscled heroes and conniving villains, pious saints and debauched sinners, corrupt CEOs and disinterested temp workers. -- Jonathan Talat Phillips
If Mr. Trump wants to work with us to make sure that trade works for the American worker, not just CEOs of corporate America, you have got a partner, partner. -- Bernie Sanders
I started doing motivational tours. I've seen all kinds of people, from the CEOs to the lowest executive, opening up to their fears. We don't introspect as much as we should. -- Anupam Kher
The deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. And there's something wrong with that. There's something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the typical worker. -- Hillary Clinton
By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined. -- James Surowiecki
If CEOs insist that middle class Americans compete with cheap foreign labor, why not outsource the jobs of CEOs? If business is all about cost, they should be the first to volunteer. -- Lou Dobbs
Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right now, because the planet is in a lot of pain. -- Ellen Page
Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage in needless wars, and parents to irreversibly traumatize their children. -- Noreena Hertz
Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed? -- Madeleine M. Kunin
'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media. -- Felix Dennis
The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media. -- Felix Dennis
CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it. -- Jack Welch
We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year. -- Adora Svitak
I never imagined working with CEOs, congressmen or the military, yet I make regular visits to the Pentagon, stop by the Capitol now and then and sit down with leaders of all kinds of companies. -- Simon Sinek
CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual. In my opinion, these CEOs should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature. -- James Hansen
CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex. -- Marcus Buckingham
When my co-founder and I first had the idea for IronPort, an email security company, we triangulated a list of the 20 most relevant people in email - former CEOs, open source technologists, investors and thought leaders. -- Scott Weiss
Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses. -- Peter Drucker
Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent. -- Margaret Heffernan
Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn. -- Simon Mainwaring
CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying "Our people are our greatest asset." And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work. -- Marcus Buckingham
The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need. -- Bill Gates
Power relations between men and women must change profoundly, men must be partners in the pursuit of gender equality, in their decision-making roles, as heads of state, CEOs, religious and cultural leaders, and as partners and parents. -- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like. -- Adora Svitak
I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to. -- Frank Luntz
Critics might contend that putting former private-sector CEOs in the president's Cabinet places the fox in the henhouse. But it's unlikely such executives would expose themselves to the headaches if they weren't genuinely motivated by the call to service. -- John Sununu
No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves. -- Lewis B. Smedes
Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office. -- Edmund White
Companies who have been able to groom CEOs internally have done significantly better. We came to the conclusion that the quality of several of the reviewed internal candidates was so high that it did not merit to go outside. -- Jorma Ollila
It's interesting that there's so many different sides of this: Women get frustrated that we don't get paid enough; and then the Republicans or the CEOs that are men say, "Well, it's because women take off time for maternity leave." -- Jennifer Lawrence
It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for. -- Rick Pitino
I talk to hundreds of companies a year and spend hour after hour in heady pow-wows with CEOs, financial analysts and my colleagues in the mutual-fund business, but I stumble onto the big winners in extracurricular situations, the same way you do. -- Peter Lynch
Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that. -- Jared Diamond
My job is to find great ideas, exaggerate them, and spread them like hell around the business with the speed of light...And to put resources in to support them. Keep finding ideas. That's the job of just about all of our CEOs. -- Jack Welch
I am far more a fan of aggressive entrepreneurs than I am of major CEOs. You look at major CEOs, and they are almost to a person quite timid. They don't act to defend the free market principles that are vital to growth. -- Ted Cruz
The number of CEOs voluntarily leaving their jobs or being forced out spiked early. Many of those companies will be turning to an interim CEO to take the reins. These temporary leaders are increasingly in demand, according to those who watch corner office trends. -- Steve Inskeep
Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want. -- Jack Canfield
One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me. -- William Clay Ford, Jr.
One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me. -- William Clay Ford, Jr.
CEOs resign when the internal dynamics of the company and the external dynamics of the company actually come together to say it is appropriate. When the internal dynamics ask you whether you have a replacement. I think the transition from CEOships have also become cartoonish. -- Ursula Burns
Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,' which often means, 'all by themselves.' Why? They've been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model. -- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
When an organization starts hemorrhaging talent, CEOs and boards of directors want to know why. If the boss gets blamed for the brain drain and is ultimately removed, it means relief for the employees still there and ex post facto vengeance for the former ones. -- Jeffrey Kluger
The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an annual report or they give a little video speech that gets sent around the company, they think that's what's really going to affect employees. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an annual report or they give a little video speech that gets sent around the company, they think that's what's really going to affect employees. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major CEOs, more math major senators. But we won't get there unless we dump the stereotype that math is only worthwhile for kid geniuses. -- Jordan Ellenberg
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful. -- Ben Horowitz
Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes to understand that psychopaths can be entrepreneurs, politicians, CEOs and other successful individuals who may never see the inside of a prison. -- Robert D. Hare
Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy. -- Cynthia Kenyon
Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You. -- Tom Peters
At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria - the growth and success of the business. -- Susan Wojcicki
Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it. -- Jack Welch
Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less. -- Dianne Feinstein
Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention. -- Scott Walker
Daniel Goleman has proven that two-thirds of the success in business is based upon our Emotional Intelligence as opposed to our IQ or our level of experience. As we look for the next crop of future CEOs, maybe it's time for America's corporations to start interviewing grads from the psychology master's programs rather than the M.B.A. programs. -- Chip Conley
We are beginning to see a fundamental outrage at the whole interconnected mess of a system: at energy companies who record massive profits, yet allow pensioners to struggle to stay warm in winter; at CEOs who can earn up to a 1,000 times the salary of their average worker; and soon, any day now, at those politicians who allowed this to happen. -- Noreena Hertz
Maybe back in the day you didn't need to be the greatest looking to be on TV and you didn't need to speak the best, but in this day and age, I think you need to be the package. You need to look the part for your sponsors, you need to be able to speak the part for the media and to big CEOs. -- Danica Patrick

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