Quotes about Chief Executives

It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to an entertainment bureau. No occasion is too trivial for its promoters to invite them to attend and deliver an address. Votes: 5

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first. Votes: 3

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive. Votes: 3

At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one. Votes: 3

An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short. Votes: 3

I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife. Votes: 3

I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive. Votes: 3

Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA. Votes: 3

A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets. Votes: 3

The hardest thing for a chief executive to do is to tell someone that they don't have a job anymore. Votes: 3

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. Votes: 3

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa. Votes: 3

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. Votes: 3

Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record. Votes: 3

A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced. Votes: 3

He was a great president in his first term; in his second term, he wasn't the same Grover Cleveland he was to begin with. ...Cleveland reestablished the presidency by being not only a chief executive but a leader. Votes: 3

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term. Votes: 3

A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class. Votes: 3

Show me a chief executive who's on five boards and who lends his or her name, prestige and time to 15 community activities - and I'll show you a company that's underperforming. A chief executive is paid to run the company. That's the CEO's job. Votes: 3

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned. Votes: 3

Of one thing the investor can be certain: A large company's need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a damning sign of something basically wrong with the existing management - no matter how good the surface signs may have been as indicated by the most recent earnings statement. Votes: 3

The reason is still difficult to explain, but it is not complicated. That inner voice that will not be denied, once we learn to listen to it, had whispered since the beginning, "Business is not what your life is about. Founding VISA and being its chief executive officer is something you must do, but it's only preparatory." Votes: 3

Whenever possible, I like to have the supreme head of a company show me over the works. It is extremely illuminating to note the attitude of workers towards their boss, and equally interesting to note the attitude towards the workers. It is tragic to notice how many chief executives of large concerns are absolutely unknown, even by sight, to the rank and file of their workers. Votes: 3

Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives. Votes: 0

Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives. Votes: 0

I'm here with Howard Millar and Michael Cawley, our two deputy chief executives. But they're presently making love in the gentleman's toilets, such is their excitement at today's results. Votes: 0

I yearn to see other chief executives throughout the nation follow suit, so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice. Votes: 0