The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster.
If the CEO doesn’t see the playing field, nobody else can. The team may need to see it too, but the CEO really needs to be able to see the entire competitive space.
Some CEO's feel like if the 'opt out of social' they are somehow protected. That is just crazy.
No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
I am fairly average in my expenses as a person in a technical lineCEO of work.
It is within everyone's grasp to be a CEO.
Never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit.
It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention.
I like to joke with my wife that she's the CEO of. . . certainly of our household.
You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders.
The relationship between executive CEO pay, stock performance is tenuous and not easily unscrambled, just one of myriad factors that affect the price of a stock.
As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
The most important thing I've learned since becoming CEO is context. It's how your company fits in with the world and how you respond to it.
CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.
In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.
On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have.
I’ve been wondering for a while now if the CEO role is one that I want – and the one that I’m best at.
A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive.
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.
Every time you're directing a movie you're kind of building a temporary business. You're hiring all these heads of departments, and it definitely feels like I'm like a CEO of a very temporary company.