Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Peck

What you have is a payoff when there's poor performance. But that's the nature of contracts. There's such a tremendous risk these days with being a CEO of a major corporation.

Charles Peck

What you have is a payoff when there's poor performance, ... But that's the nature of contracts. There's such a tremendous risk these days with being a CEO of a major corporation.

Carlos Cardoso

I think that an effective CEO is a generalist in many waysone that can represent the company well to the customers, to the investors, to the community. You also have to represent yourself well as a leader at all levels of the organization. One of the things I have learned since my younger days is that everyone in the organization counts.

Jochen Zeitz

I picked up the phone and called Herbert Hainer, the CEO of Adidas, and said, 'Well, it's Peace Day coming up. I think it's about time after 60 years to end this feud. How about doing something together?'

Sam Bodman

I hope the CEOs of the energy companies use that (hearing) as an opportunity to make their case, tell the story of just what it is they are planning on reinvesting in this sector,

Allan Paller

The ISO is going to the CEO saying there's a chance something bad, and possibly something embarrassing, could happen. But how much of a chance, the ISO doesn't know. And if he spends this kind of money, he can reduce the risk but by how much, he doesn't know. It's simply not enough data. Every other C-level executive does better than that and takes on the responsibility for defining the risk. Here, the CISO is putting the responsibility on the CEO. They don't want it, and eventually they won't take it.

Harvey Golub

The CEO succession process from me to Ken has gone smoothly, and we have been able to move even more quickly than I anticipated, ... Ken has put in place the new organization structure and senior leadership team.

Glen Tullman

The company is not for sale. But having been the CEO of two other companies that were sold, it is always a possibility.

Andrew Roskill

The event was more of a marketing event than a product launch, as a lot of the details were predictably vague. Further, CEO Ballmer conceded offstage that it likely would be several years before the .NET platform has any material impact on Microsoft's financials.

Bruce Lanni

Knowing that the oil sands projects are capital-intensive, companies are signaling that oil prices will remain high and that supply and demand will remain tight.

Hilary Rosen

I think it's a great thing when companies experiment with different models.

Michael Farr

I also like Microsoft, and I particularly like EMC, ... These companies are going to come back.

Wade Jones

What we want is to improve the quality of life for everybody. We want to improve the standard of living. And the way we do that is by providing good-paying jobs, secure jobs, so that we know the companies are going to prosper and do well here and help expand our economy.

Charles Gallagher

What we wanted to do was make succession-planning a process for these companies rather than an event they have to deal with.

Eric Shepcaro

What we find in these statistics is somewhat alarming, that four years after 9-11, a third of companies surveyed still lack these plans. We find that (many) companies that have these plans don't practice them.

Alan Foreman

Here and there, we may have a ray of sunshine. Some companies may report better-than-expected earnings, ... But, on balance, in this climate, those reports are not likely to fuel markets to move much higher.

Bernard Golden

Having open source or proprietary companies that refuse to work with one another from a sense of purity is a real disservice to end users.

Alan Levine

Gold Standard was one of the best-led small companies I've ever worked with. Russ Thomas is a visionary.

Italian Proverb

Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number

Scott Bilker

Keep all your records. By law, the credit-card company must investigate your dispute.

Gray Davis

Just the other day, we had to pay $1,900 for a megawatt hour, which a year ago would have cost us $30, ... And the reason this company named Reliant out of Texas gave us for charging us that much money was, they said, the state's credit isn't any good.

Stephen Roelofse

I think in time they will probably make an offer (for Western Areas). I can't see them taking a passive stake in the company like that.

Eugene Christiansen

Harrah's is putting together some very, very strategic real estate. You look at that, you look at Caesars Palace and the implication is that Harrah's is: a) Making a no-brainer investment; b) Is making provision for a major expansion in its Strip presence. I look at the map; I couldn't read it any other way. That's something the company needs Å  a greater presence on the Strip.

Susumu Tonegawa

My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.

David Wray

There are studies that show participants in a 401(k) plans are less likely to leave the company and are better workers.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.

Barry Diller

He recently told me he felt he had completed the (organization plan) and wanted at some soon point to move on to a company he could really run. This is entirely amicable with no precise end date and he and the other key members of the company know he has my complete and continued support in whatever he decides to do.