Ceos Quotes

People understand the product when they see it in the CEOs office and in context and it has been widely successful via word of mouth.

CEOs are highly skilled people like a pro athlete or artist, selling a skill, ... It?s very hard to put a monetary value on a skill, but a good quarterback makes $10 million a year, based on an athletic skill, in the same way a painting might bring in $10 million to an artist.

It makes you wonder what really went down with ex-COO Gary Daichendt, who apparently quit in May because he wanted to be CEO but Owens and/or the board showed no sign it was going to happen any time soon. In a nutshell, Owens` departure -- was he fired, pushed or did he resign? -- is another one step forward, two steps back move for Nortel, which has now had three CEOs in the past 18 months.

It started with the celebrities; we had home gyms in CEOs` homes for years but it didn`t mean anything to people.

CEOs from all county hospitals signed a memorandum of understanding that allows the sharing of staff and supplies during disasters. We`re very proud of it.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

(These CEOs) are rewarded for decisions that may help the corporate bottom line, but at the same time are very costly for U.S. workers and communities.

Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.

One of the things I`ve had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.

I don`t understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don`t care to.

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.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

There is a lot of opportunity for people with varied interests, ... We`ve had business owners, CEOs '” all kinds of backgrounds. These are people with a lot of talent.

We have many women CEOs around the state of Florida. We`re seeing that around South Florida, Central Florida.

Supply-chain applications are in a trough of disillusionment. CEOs signed off on supply-chain packages a couple years ago and now are beating their heads against the wall, wondering what they bought.

Thanks to the popularity of poker on television, poker is so hot right now among CEOs. They see professional poker players doing what they do every day analyze the odds, review all the options, and make split second decisions. CEOs are naturals at poker.

Poker is both math and instinct, and CEOs understand the bottom line and the odds. But knowing the numbers is not enough, they have to know how to read people, something they do every day in the boardroom.