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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President. -- Barbara Boxer
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
I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company. -- Jay-Z
You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars. -- James Daly
When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts. -- Larry Ellison
The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO. -- Michael Porter
Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top. -- Andrea Jung
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy. -- Michael Porter
You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that. -- Andrea Jung
Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you. -- Christie Hefner
A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997. -- Andy Hertzfeld
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
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
The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time. -- Jimmy Johnson
I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board, but most CEO's are hired by the board. -- Howard Schultz
On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have. -- Rick Wagoner
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
My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism. -- Patricia Ireland
I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve. -- Andrea Jung
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
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets. -- Steve Jobs
They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don't care if there are three ceos - it takes one guy with an idea. -- Joe Grant
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.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. -- Steve Jobs
In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO. -- Lee Iacocca
The purpose of work is to make the worker - whether a working stiff or a CEO - feel good about life. -- Ricardo Semler
At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company. -- Carl Lewis
A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive. -- Robin S. Sharma
The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design. -- Elon Musk
Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that. -- Indra Nooyi
On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have. -- Rick Wagoner
If you're the cashier at Burger King, of course you make less than the manager or even the CEO. The issue is whether you're stuck being a cashier for the rest of your life. -- Marco Rubio
I'm so glad I didn't become a doctor, because I do more than any doctor can do. I am an administrator, a CEO, doctor, psychiatrist, an activist, a campaign funder. I think I did well. -- Dikembe Mutombo
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
When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired. -- Eric Liu
At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining. -- Carlos Slim
If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors. -- Gary Hamel
We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather. -- Mitch McConnell
Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together. -- Tim Berners-Lee
By the time I stepped down as Xerox's CEO in 2009 - and as chairman in January 2010 - Xerox had become the vibrant, profitable and revitalized company that it still is today. What made the difference was a strong turnaround plan, dedicated people and a firm commitment from company leaders. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
Fortunately, right now 'entrepreneurship' is one of the business world's biggest buzz words and so many young people in our country are looking up to this new generation of CEO's as their modern day rock stars. Whenever you have that effect, it makes the job of promoting entrepreneurship much easier. -- Daymond John
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
The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially. -- Indra Nooyi
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
I'm the CEO of A$AP Worldwide. But as you can see, when I'm with them, everybody's equal. We don't really base our love off of finances or who's superior by financial status. We're all equal. When I'm with them, I'm letting them shine 'cause it's just like how it used to be. They still there. I'm just chilling out front. -- ASAP Rocky
There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change? -- Andrea Jung
'What's your favorite position?' 'CEO.' -- Lauren Conrad
As CEO, my main job is editor-in-chief. -- Jack Dorsey
I hated being a public company CEO. -- John Katzman
I will never be a CEO again. -- Jerry Yang
Being a president is being a CEO, essentially. -- Geraldo Rivera
I wish I was CEO of 4chan instead -- Yishan Wong
A CEO needs to build their own team. -- Ross Levinsohn
It is within everyone's grasp to be a CEO. -- Martha Stewart
Another key role the CEO plays is to focus efforts. -- Scott D. Anthony
Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering. -- Steve Jobs
A company does better the less it pays the CEO. -- Peter Thiel
I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO. -- Angela Ahrendts
Never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit. -- Peter Thiel
My agility is the CEO of the United Global Agility Corporation -- Steve Nash
Sometimes, low-level jobs are challenging even to someone with CEO potential. -- Marty Nemko
Governor Romney may be running for CEO, I'm running for President -- Newt Gingrich
Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO. -- Max McKeown
No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that. -- Drew Houston
No CEO examining books today understands what the hell is going on. -- Charlie Munger
I'm a CEO of a public company. You have to show decorum. -- Ivan Glasenberg
Every startup CEO should understand Gamification, because gaming is the new normal. -- Bing Gordon
When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it. -- Carlos Ghosn
A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line. -- Warren Buffett
Enron CEO Kenneth Lay has apparently just slipped across the border into Pakistan. -- David Letterman
The day I was announced as CEO, I think the stock dropped another 20%. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention. -- Leah D. Daughtry
Your job as CEO is to be the fastest person of the company. -- Bing Gordon
I'm a capitalist, I'm a CEO, I run a big business, I'm an employer. -- Sophia Amoruso
I'm trying to become a young CEO, to brand myself in television and movies. -- Bow Wow
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the 2008 Canadian CEO of the year, Frank DAngelo. -- Terence Corcoran
I feel like my job as CEO is always to be pushing people ahead. -- Larry Page
Most companies don't have a good mechanism to give the CEO real, honest feedback. -- Scott Weiss
Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
We are upgrading UEX to a Buy rating; new CEO Roger Lemaitre changes everything. -- David Talbot
It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare. -- Warren Buffett
An approachable and authentic CEO is essential to fostering a high-performance, open communications culture. -- Scott Weiss
My role as CEO is to protect the company AND nurture it to grow. -- John Fairclough
The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done. -- Steven Burd
There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business. -- Fred Wilson
If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance. -- Denise Morrison
I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO. -- Dave Chappelle
Of the 50 largest companies in the United States, you are the only woman CEO. Why? -- Angela Braly
I like to joke with my wife that she's the CEO of... certainly of our household. -- Scott Pruett
If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales. -- Daymond John
The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it. -- David A. Siegel
When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating. -- Gary Hamel
For any CEO that is skeptical at all: you have to create a social enterprise today! -- Angela Ahrendts
Every time a new CEO came, I got a promotion till I was made CEO myself. -- Jochen Zeitz
Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer. -- Jack Welch
I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer. -- Mark Pincus
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried. -- Ben Horowitz
When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family. -- Corey Haim
Evaluate the people in your life; then promote, demote, or terminate. You're the CEO of your life! -- Tony Gaskins
Remember, before they promoted to the chair of CEO, they were the best employees of their companies. -- Amit Kalantri
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more. -- Ben Horowitz
As CEO, I had a standing 30-minute meeting every Monday to greet and connect with new hires. -- Scott Weiss
We're all shareholders. These guys below me, they see the CEO taking it easy, it's their money. -- Ivan Glasenberg
You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders. -- Sam Altman
I am who I am, and I'm focused on that, and being a great CEO of Apple. -- Tim Cook
I am fairly average in my expenses as a person in a technical line/CEO of work. -- Jack Levin
As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term. -- Carlos Ghosn
I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was. -- Carly Fiorina
Some CEO's feel like if the 'opt out of social' they are somehow protected. That is just crazy. -- Sandy Carter
My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor. -- Jason Calacanis
In business, sometimes you have to change the CEO in order to change the direction of the company. -- Thomas Massie
American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important. -- Marcus Buckingham
In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging. -- Paul Allen
Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee. -- Keith Rabois
No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO. -- Bill Gates
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom. -- Carly Fiorina
When a new CEO comes, make sure you send him a visiting card to say, 'Sir, I'm with you'. -- Sourav Ganguly
No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that. -- Nathan Myhrvold

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