Ceo Role Quotes

Being a president is being a CEO, essentially.

Clearly, every company needs a leader. That's an important part of being the CEO of the company.

You don't think, when you start a company as the founding CEO, that if your venture actually works, you end up with three jobs: founder, CEO, and chair of the board. The first eight years at Bonobos, I have learned a lot about the tension between the first two. It didn't even occur to me that I had the third job until much later.

I am who I am, and I'm focused on that, and being a great CEO of Apple.

Whether you stay private or go public, after all is said and done, a CEO's job is to create lasting shareholder value.

I am the CEO of HCL Corporation, and, of course, a large part of my time does get spent in HCL Corporation, whether it is in actively managing our investments or perhaps even the governance and accountability and really seeing the strategic direction forward for HCL Corporation.

I don't believe it's appropriate for me or any other CEO to wade into every political dispute. That's not what we're here for.

You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming.

Your job as CEO is to be the fastest person of the company.

When I became the CEO of Burberry in July 2006, luxury was one of the fastest-growing sectors in the world.

If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.

There is something only a CEO uniquely can do, which is set that tone, which can then capture the soul of the collective.

I feel like my job as CEO is always to be pushing people ahead.

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.

If I spend all of my day in the details as a CEO of a company like Wal-Mart, I think it would be trouble, because I wouldn't really be prepared to speak to the big issues that the country or the world should face.

Somebody asked me 'what's the job of a CEO', and there's a number of things a CEO does. What you mostly do is articulate the vision, develop the strategy, and you gotta hire people to fit the culture. If you do those three things, you basically have a company. And that company will hopefully be successful, if you have the right vision, the right strategy, and good people.

Being CEO of AMD is a tremendous opportunity to influence the industry and influence the future of computing.

In large companies, the CEO is very distant from operations.

If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.

I used to think my job as a CEO meant managing metrics and meeting goals, but I've realised now that's it's about managing my board and employees.

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.

If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.

I always took my role as a leader, and certainly chairman and CEO of a major company very seriously as to our employees and trying to create opportunities for them and create opportunities where they could even, as I said many times, could realize their God-given potential and maybe realize more potential than even they realize they had.

The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.

In the industrial age, the CEO sat on the top of the hierarchy and didn't have to listen to anybody ... In the information age, you have to listen to the ideas of people regardless of where they are in the organization.