Corporate Climbing Quotes

I didn't dream that I would become the CEO of the company when I joined as a systems marketing engineer back in 1995. Sometimes, I don't really reconcile to it; it's a bit of an odd sensation which is under the surface.

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

Generally, people who crib about corporate politics are, more often than not, those who've played the game but lost it.

Watching 'Profit' is like peering into a fishbowl and watching a piranha at work.

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

Take 'The Stroke,' for instance. Plenty of people saw sexual connotations in that song but to me it was about what goes on in the business world.

It's always been my expectation to be the top guy, the face of the company, the one with all of that responsibility. But that should be everybody's goal. I didn't get into this to just be in the middle of the pack. If you want to do that, go work in a different line of work. This isn't the place to camouflage yourself.

I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.

People don't just show up in the C-suite overnight.

It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.