35 CEO Quotes On Success

A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO), or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization – especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution. CEOs find roles in a range of organizations, including public and private corporations, non-profit organizations and even some government organizations (notably state-owned enterprises). The CEO of a corporation or company typically reports to the board of directors and is charged with maximizing the value of the business, which may include maximizing the share price, market share, revenues or another element. In the non-profit and government sector, CEOs typically aim at achieving outcomes related to the organization’s mission, usually provided by legislation. CEOs are also frequently assigned the role of main manager of the organization and the highest-ranking officer in the C-suite. May these CEO Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.

1. “Every time you make a hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.” Ben Horowitz

2. “I always believe that, as you start out, while you should have a big dream — a big goal — but it’s also important to move step by step. So, you know, frankly, if you ask me, when I started as a management trainee in 1984, I don’t know that I really thought that I would become the CEO.” Chanda Kochhar

3. “I’m responsible for this company. I stand behind the results. I know the details, and I think the CEO has to be the moral leader of the company. I think high standards are good, but let’s not anybody be confused, it’s about performance and integrity. That’s what you have to do.” Jeffrey Immelt

4. “Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it’s about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first.” Andrean Jung

5. “No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.” Drew Houston

6. “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.” Elon Musk

7. “Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.” Criss Jami

8. “One thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading the organization don’t grow vertically, they grow exponentially.” Indra Nooyi

9. “The true value of a CEO should be measured in terms of his-her human impact on the organization, on his-her ability to develop leaders who have the courage to challenge the status quo, to pioneer uncharted paths, to break away from competition and go beyond the tried and tested.” Sergio Marchionne

10. “I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.” John Stumpf

11. “Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don’t act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end.” Bill Gates

12. “As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I’ve learned that failure will always come. I’ve learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment.” Christina Tosi

13. “You don’t have to wake up at 4am just because a few CEO’s are doing that. Different people are creative at different times of the day.” Pooja Agnihotri

14. “The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.” Michael Porter

15. “If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.” Denise Morrison

16. “Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there’s no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.” Jared Diamond

17. “Just because you are CEO, don’t think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I’ve never forgotten that.” Indra Nooyi

18. “I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.” Jay-Z

19. “They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don’t care if there are three CEOs — it takes one guy with an idea.” Joe Grant

20. “In business, sometimes you have to change the CEO in order to change the direction of the company.” Thomas Massie

21. “Your career is your business, as a CEO of your own career company, it is important to manage your company in the right direction with proper planning and executions to achieve your goals.” Dax Bamania

22. “I don’t hold myself out as a role model. I don’t believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us.” Sheryl Sandberg

23. “CEOs who can hire properly, that’s the most important part of the job. The CEO’s job is really to hire the right team and execute the vision second.” Bill Maris

24. “To be the best CEO you can be, you have to be passionate about the business you’re running. And I have true passion for the financial markets and the financial industry.” Adena Friedman

25. “The most important thing is, Do you have the courage to admit that you’re wrong? And do you change? The most important thing to me as a CEO is that we keep the courage.” Tim Cook

26. “As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.” Carlos Ghosn

27. “No matter what the industry you choose to ultimately invest all your time and energy in, be sure you’re the owner, founder, and CEO. Remember, if you don’t own it, you can’t control it nor can you depend on it.” Brandi L. Bates

28. “To be a CEO is a calling. You should not do it because it is a job. It’s a calling, and you have got to be involved in it with your head, heart and hands. Your heart has got to be in the job; you got to love what you do; it consumes you. And if you are not willing to get into the CEO job that way, there is no point getting into it.” Indra Nooyi

29. “As CEO, I believe my most important job is to both define reality and inspire hope for the PayPal team. Defining reality includes being realistic about all the things that could go wrong so that we are prepared to navigate those challenges.” Dan Schulman

30. “To build a great company, which is a CEO’s job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.” Carly Fiorina

31. “The role of a CEO is to enable people to excel, help them discover their own wisdom, engage themselves entirely in their work, and accept responsibility for making change.” Vineet Nayar

32. “Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.” Christie Hefner

33. “As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how to meticulously manage my time.” Alexa Von Tobel

34. “Every ‘asset’ is a ‘liability’, unless proven otherwise — even your (share) capital is put under ‘liability’ head, or for that matter manpower as well. Now one who can be the soul of a family, company, society or country and turns these around is a true CEO.” Sandeep Sahajpal

35. “The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn’t care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.” Jimmy Johnson

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