Patrick Pichette Quotes

I've said I will be CEO as long as my colleagues want me.

I'm going to continue doing my thing and work my butt off to add value for shareholders and as long as they and the board see fit to keep me in this role, I feel enormously privileged to serve.

When I quit 'Iss Pyaar Ko Kyaa Naam Doon 1,' I left the show because I wanted to travel with my wife and spend time with her.

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.

I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

I do not want to be a long-term CEO.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

If somebody's going on your board, and you're going to be C.E.O., it will help if that person knows how to be C.E.O., who has done it before.

When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.

And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while.

I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.

Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.

Honestly, I can't tell you what I what I would be doing if I wasn't chairman of GM, because this is all I've done.

I'm privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time.

I am very lucky to have the opportunity to travel to so many amazing destinations for work!

I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'

I'm willing to have two directors on the DuPont board, me being one of them.

Abby Johnson has agreed to become Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity, reflecting a further step forward in our leadership succession plan. Abby will retain her role of President, and I will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board.

Companies the size of PepsiCo is like running a little republic, there is no question about it. The only difference is that I don't have to worry about the media hounding me every day, on every word that I say. I have a board of directors that runs the country in the interest of the stake holders.

I'm the last senior executive who was hired by Roy Vagelos. It's an honor, but it also imposes upon me an obligation not only to think about his legacy but also about this company's legacy.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

I'm the non-executive chairman of nine or so major companies, and on the nine companies, it's a little trying because you jump from one industry to another, as the case might be. But one had the reasonable knowledge of those nine activities, and it's been an exciting job.

As a former CEO and senior executive, there was a time when I did not quite understand the profound impact a CEO has on the culture of a company, even though I always knew culture was important.