Sanjay Kumar Quotes

When you're the CEO, you take responsibility.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

I used to think my job as a CEO meant managing metrics and meeting goals, but I've realised now that's it's about managing my board and employees.

The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.

I would say that I'm blessed with a very, very good executive team that operates, reasonably autonomously, each of the companies.

Look first at management. That's the key to a company.

A CEO of a multinational global company can't say what to do; you've got to plant the flag.

That's the fun part of being CEO. You can actually say, 'Hey, this is what we should be spending our time on,' and people get it.

Being a president is being a CEO, essentially.

CEOs who can hire properly, that's the most important part of the job. The CEO's job is really to hire the right team and execute the vision second.

Every employee in a company depends on the C.E.O. to make fast, high-quality decisions.

Obviously I've got a great team of people within the company. You can't operate all by yourself. We have a good board of directors and a big bench, and they can make decisions if I'm not around.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing a proper company culture will help you get your company to do what you want in certain important areas for a very long time.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.

Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

Management must manage!

Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team.

[Describing her role:] It's like running a big corporation and a little country at the same time.

When the finance or marketing people run a company, innovation stops.

I'm really more of an executive.