1. “When you start a company, it's more an art than a
science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems,
try to solve something that's deeply personal to you. Ideally, if you're an
ordinary person and you've just solved your problem, you might have solved the
problem for millions of people.” Brian Chesky, Airbnb.
2. “I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good
team member, a good colleague.” John Stumpf, Wells Fargo.
3. “Every time you make the 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, Andreessen Horowitz.
4. “To build a great company, which is a CEO's job,
sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.” Carly Fiorina,
Hewlett-Packard.
5. “My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of
people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of
those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just
that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the
world.” Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook.
On working with your team:
6. “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, Grameen America.
7. “Teaching your employees something new creates an instant
connection, and they will respect you for it. If you can do this in a job
interview, you will be sure to attract the smartest people. Money doesn’t mean
much to a lot of the smartest people in the world—they want to grow their
intelligence rather than their wallet. If you show employees that they will
progress intellectually in their career, and economically while at your
company, then they will want to work for you.” Taso Du Val, Toptal.
8. “The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy,
cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades
downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy
decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical
supervisors.” Gary Hamel, Gary Hamel Consulting.
9. “The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are
that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if
you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have
to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.” Jack Ma,
Alibaba.
On becoming a CEO:
10. “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, SpaceX.
11. “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, ICICI Bank.
On being a CEO:
12. “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, PepsiCO.
13. “I am who I am, and I'm focused on that, and being a
great CEO of Apple.” Tim Cook, Apple.
14. “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, LearnVest.
15. “As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to
the metal.” Travis Kalanick, Uber.
16. "When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for
everyone telling you you’re nuts." – Larry Ellison, Oracle.
On customers:
17. “Software innovation, like almost every other kind of
innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other
people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and
understand their needs.” Bill Gates, Microsoft.
18. “I always did something I was a little not ready to do.
I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really
sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a
breakthrough.” Marissa Mayer, Yahoo!.
19. “We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and
we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the
customer experience a little bit better.” Jeff Bezos, Amazon.
20. “Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make
a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with
marketing.” Natalie Massenet, Net-a-Porter.
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