Quotes of: Ceo Keyword

The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder lea...

Ben Horowitz

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

Being thoughtful about the comfort and needs of the people who work in your home is a characteristic of a great Home Care CEO.

Home Care CEO: A Parent's Guide to Managing In-home Pediatric Nursing

The city was alive, and so was he...

Sex with the CEO: A Billionaire Romance

As a CEO, you get sucked into dealing with all the tasks of being a CEO. There's a big meeting, a big discussion, and you get into all the big issues, which is your job. But what CEOs often lose sight of is that it's all about the people who work for...

Douglas Conant

Like most cities, London could be a lonely place...

Sex with the CEO: A Billionaire Romance

21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.

Michael Eisner

I think to some degree one of the strengths of the high tech industry is that people are actually willing to tell you things. When I went to Novell, I didn't know how to be a CEO, so I went in and I called all sorts of CEOs I knew. I called in a favo...

Eric Schmidt

Although she was beautiful, he knew that that wasn’t enough anymore.

Sex with the CEO: A Billionaire Romance

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

Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.

Yishan Wong

Nothing could replace the feeling of total devotion from another person.

Sex with the CEO: A Billionaire Romance

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

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 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

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

Once you open your home to nursing, you essentially become the employer of a small staff, even if you aren’t signing the paychecks. As in any workplace, the staff needs to know the rules and expectations, and it is your job to set them and communic...

Home Care CEO: A Parent's Guide to Managing In-home Pediatric Nursing

You won't find a CEO who doesn't talk about a 'powerful culture' as a source of competitive advantage. At the same time, you'd be hard-pressed to find a CEO who has much of a clue about the strength of that culture.

Marcus Buckingham

A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.

The Saint, the Surfer, and the CEO: A Remarkable Story about Living Your Heart's Desires

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

I'm on the Business Roundtable, the CEOs of the largest 100-odd companies in the country. Most of these people wanted very much to be the CEO of a large public company but realize that it's not exactly what they had anticipated, for lots of reasons. ...

Henry Silverman