Corporate Ladder Quotes

The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?

That just seems like a tough thing to do... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire.

I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.

I'm not a businessman.

I've met people at the top of companies like Accenture who started off in McDonald's.

I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.

My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.

I think most people can identify with the hierarchy of the workplace.

I went to college, got a job. Not a good job or anything but I was fully set to be an office employee for my life.

If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.

You've gotta realize this - you could be working at Burger King or working for the biggest wrestling company in the world.

To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people between the player and a 'yes,' the more powerful he is.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

I never felt the need to be in the rat race.

People always say it is carefree leaving officialdom, but actually they do want to keep the position.

One day I'll know what it's like to be a manager.

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

I know it's a cliche, but I didn't want to work in an office.

The TV industry is a corporate world. People come, people go. They leave for growth, money, and many other reasons.

I was one of those guys who never wanted to start their own business. I never saw myself as a leader. I saw myself as a great No. 2.

The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.

I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.