Chief Executive Quotes

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Nature, Personal, Himself

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
John D. Rockefeller

Blame, Marketing, Chief

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
Ulysses S. Grant

Political, Training, Office

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.
Gerald R. Ford

Country, Cannot, Honest

A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class.
Marcy Kaptur

Enough, Working, Times

The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times.
Bob McDonnell

Times, Chief, Executive

I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.
Jane Byrne

Accept, Ask, Judged

A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced.
David Limbaugh

America, Greatness, President

I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.
Stuart Rose

Once, Anybody, Chief

Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.
Steve Largent

Life, Good, President

Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.
Pete Rozelle

Good, Successful, Football

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
J. Irwin Miller

Business, Long, Financial

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament.
Tom A. Watson

Failure, Person, Knowing

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them.
John Adair

Leader, Far, Knows

In the fall of the year 2000, there just happened to be a decision point when they asked me to become Chief Executive Officer of the company. It was a time when, as you remember, we were starting to have some real problems in the California energy markets.
Jeffrey Skilling

Time, Real, Decision

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