Ceo Quotes Quotes

“As companies age they tend to become more reliant on extracting value from their past successes and less desirous of innovating. It's every CEO's job to ensure the company rejects this tendency and instead chooses to embrace both the capital of past success and the capital of present innovation.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“True leaders pursue knowledge, not recognition;
understanding, not titles;
wisdom, not power;
purpose, not riches;
excellence, not success;
opportunities, not obstacles;
character, not fame;
diligence, not entertainment;
happiness, not money;
dignity, not position;
a career, not a job;
influence, not popularity;
performance, not acclaim;
and pursue dreams, not tradition.

True leaders are givers, not takers;
builders, not destroyers;
doers, not talkers;
encouragers, not flatterers;
lovers, not haters;
warriors, not worriers;
forgivers, not shamers;
performers, not complainers;
givers, not takers;
achievers, not quitters;
doers, not doubters;
winners, not losers;
performers, not manipulators;
and are masters, not amatuers.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The first sign of leadership confusion is getting the CEO of a company to lead the country and its citizens.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“The greatest things in civilization were all made possible by the wise stewardship of Capital. And all of the problems of the world have as their root cause a misuse or waste of capital. Therefore the primary concern for every business and every human endeavor, is the wise stewardship of Capital. And this is especially true for every Chief Sustainability Officer.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“A house you build with your hands, but an empire you build with your heart.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“You can lead people where they have never gone if you get there in your mind first.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“What’s key today is synthesizing Information: Making sense of complex data to identify patterns and trends.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

“A follower who leads is greater than a leader who follows.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The more value you add to others the more value you add to yourself.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Everyone needs to be viewed and treated as a leader, because roles and responsibilities will always be in flux.”
― Richie Norton

“I didn't learn to be quiet when I had an opinion.

They reason they knew who I was is because I told them.”
― Ursula Burns

“God is the CEO of our lives. Therefore, Adam and Eve were the first people to be fired from heaven.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“In a world full of Elon Musks, be a Dan Price.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“You know why there is so-much power outage in the world? Because the humans are unaware of their own electricity, both metaphorically and literally. And one who realizes their inner electricity and brings it out to electrify the whole world, is the true CEO of the world.

I don't care for being the CEO of some puny anti-humanitarian company, for I am already a CEO - I am the CEO of planet earth - I am the Chief Evolution Officer of the human world - so is every single human whose responsibility towards society outweighs their primeval drive for narcissism and self-preservation.

In every age, in every time, there'll come ten of us Chief Evolution Officers to make mincemeat of the megalomaniacal ploy of anti-humanitarian giants while driving human evolution in a humane direction.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“What sets Elon Musk apart from the rest of CEOs is that he cares about what an individual can do, rather than what he learned in school or college.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“The day a CEO breaks bread with the janitor, that is the day a company truly becomes human.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“There is no CEO, no janitor, just people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“There is nothing to fear in an interview for someone who has the lion's heart of a future CEO.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“To understand the philosophical ideologies of Karl Marx, you have to read between the lines.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Nicholas Mitsakos is Chairman and CEO of Arcadia Digital Holdings.”
― Nicholas Mitsakos

“It is your job to stay high level, look to the future and create opportunities for everyone. It’s not your job to micromanage.”
― Margareta Sailer, Culture Up: How startups succeed by putting people first

“You are there to do the strategic thinking; be self-aware and have a growth mindset. But most of all, be aware of your ego and contain it to be of service to others. Work on yourself and it will pay dividends. No one likes a leader who has a big ego. Remember the old saying that ‘People won’t remember what you say, but they’ll always remember how you make them feel.”
― Mareike Mutzberg, Culture Up: How startups succeed by putting people first

“Poverty is a disease that must be diagnosed and then completely avoided in all societies.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Your smile is my world's biggest problem because it helped me to overcome my last problem.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Apparently, some businesspersons believe their success depends on the 'happiness' of their little CEOs. Newsflash: Real success is in the boardroom, not the bedroom.”
― Don Santo

“Eisner gets a pen and a piece of paper. “Disney is a French name, not Irish,” he reminds me. “Now look at this.” He writes “D’Isner,” “Deez-nay,” as the French would pronounce it, “is Eisner without the D.”
― James B. Stewart, Disney War

“Among those watching the Larry King interview was Diane Disney Miller and her husband, Ron. In response to a caller asking whether Walt Disney had really been frozen, Eisner said that no, Walt had been buried in an unmarked grave in a secret location. “His wishes were that it was unmarked, and not available to anybody to ever find out,” he said. “But I went up there and talked my way into them showing me where he’s buried.”

Why would the grave be unmarked? King asked.

Walt “wanted his privacy forever,” Eisner replied. “It’s a beautiful little spot and nobody could ever find it, and I’m very proud that I talked myself into it.”

Diane didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. How could Eisner say this on national television? He knew perfectly well that Walt was not buried in an unmarked grave. Diane herself had told him that Walt had been cremated, after they had dinner all those years ago.”
― James B. Stewart, Disney War

“The Executive Leadership Assessment (results) quickly devolved into arguments about the ways in which Disney management did or did not function as a team, which pretty much proved the consultant’s point: that Disney’s top-tier executives, under Michael Eisner’s governance, does not make a good team; They don’t qualify as "a team," much less a group. Later, Eisner dismissed the whole experiment as a waste of time. Away from Eisner, several of the participants later conceded the issue. ‘What Michael likes is to put six pit bulls together and see which five die,’ one said.”
― James B. Stewart, Disney War

“When you find yourself as the smartest person in the room..leave the room!”
― Daisy Gallagher

“Corporations mirror armies — a CEO commands no differently than a General, and employees stand as the soldiers of industry.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo