Business Leader Quotes

My grandad was the most wonderful man. He was a bit like me. He was basically a country bumpkin but he did well; he became managing director of quite a successful company but all he really wanted to do was to come home, put his disgusting old trampy clothes on and go for walks across the country.

Daniel Ek, the C.E.O. of Spotify, is a rock star of the tech world, but he is not long on charisma.

My father will always be my hero. He pioneered two successful companies that paved the way for the technology services industry and has devoted much of his life to helping people in need and those who serve our nation in the armed forces.

I'm a phenomenal fan of Elon Musk. I think he's the greatest. He's a disrupter, and I think he is a great marketer. And I love him.

I met the CEO of Twitter.

Trump is a big businessman. He's your boss or CEO, not one of your brothers on the line.

I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.

After reading the Elon Musk book and getting a Tesla - he is at the top of my list of inspiring founders.

I think Bezos is incredible.

I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

I followed someone who had very large shoes. He had very large shoes. Mr. J. R. D. Tata. He was a legend in the Indian business community. He had been at the helm of the Tata organization for 50 years. You were almost starting to think he was going to be there forever.

Donald Trump has been nothing but gracious, and a gentleman and a wonderful mentor and boss to me, and to other women. So that's all, that would be my personal choice; not a demand on me.

Wall Street has desperate need of men like you.

Trump is an entrepreneur.

Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to run the business, but you're running the ranch without riding the big horse.

I hope to be remembered as someone who promoted positive change in Mexican business and society - even if this is not currently understood.

I'm what you'd call a regular guy with a big job.

I have tremendous respect for Bill Gurley. He's a friend of mine. I look up to him.

I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.

It's a sad reality if a guy like Charles Koch doesn't qualify as a role model. It's just sad.

I think I'm too young to be a mogul. I think I'm too young for that.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

I'm a businessman, that's all.

Padmasree Warrior has been on all the lists. The most powerful women in tech. The most powerful women in the world.