Chief Executives

Ethics must begin at

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. Edward F. Hennessey

Any chief executive who

Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired. Duff McDonald

A tremendous chief executive

A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets. Douglas Leone

The reason is still difficult to explain, but it is not complicated. That inner voice that will not be denied, once we learn to listen to it, had whispered since the beginning, Business is not what your life is about. Founding VISA and being its chief executive officer is something you must do, but it’s … Read more

I doubt very much

I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may be, is particularly equipped to be the chief executive of this country, particularly where Indian Affairs are concerned. Dean Acheson

A president who believed

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

Goldman Sachs was fundamentally

Goldman Sachs was fundamentally responsible for the crash of 2008, but by that time its former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Henry ‘Hank’ Paulson, had been installed as US Treasury Secretary to begin the bank bail out policy, with enormous benefit to Goldman Sachs, in the closing weeks of the Bush administration. Goldman Sachs was … Read more

Last year, the journalist

Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He discovered that while in the US population 14.5 per cent of all men are 6ft (1.83m) or taller, among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies the proportion is 58 per cent. And while 3.9 … Read more

The hardest thing for

The hardest thing for a chief executive to do is to tell someone that they don’t have a job anymore. Carly Fiorina

I have been tested

I have been tested in many ways, personally, I have beaten breast cancer, I buried a child to addiction. Professionally, you cannot go from being a secretary of nine-person real estate firm to the chief executive of the largest technology company in the world without having been tested over and over and over. Carly Fiorina