Toto Wolff Quotes

It's my experience at Fiat and, now, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles that when there is a very strong CEO, it's a good thing to be chairman.

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

The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team.

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.

I think the greatest CEOs in the United States, business, anyway, are the ones you don't hear too much about.

I'm on the Business Roundtable, the CEOs of the largest 100-odd companies in the country. Most of these people wanted very much to be the CEO of a large public company but realize that it's not exactly what they had anticipated, for lots of reasons. One is competition has gotten a lot worse, and more global.

I am incredibly proud to return to the Yahoo board.

Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.

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

I am a person who does not subscribe to the hero-CEO school of thought.

In business, sometimes you have to change the CEO in order to change the direction of the company.

One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.

A lot of deals are done or not done because chief executives are not fully aligned to shareholders.

I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board, but most CEO's are hired by the board.

The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've... I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward.

I started my career at General Electric in a small office under a guy named Greg Liemandt, and his direct boss was Jack Welch. I would say those two have had the most profound impact on my career.

CEOs resign when the internal dynamics of the company and the external dynamics of the company actually come together to say it is appropriate. When the internal dynamics ask you whether you have a replacement. I think the transition from CEOships have also become cartoonish.

Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.

By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.

After the non-Japanese Carlos Ghosn was brought in by Nissan to turn around the struggling auto manufacturer, he made English the company's official working language.

When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.

I find myself using the word 'executives' now.

Women will take over the Ford Motor Company someday—and wreck it. That’s what happened at Gulf Oil

Jeff Williams, Apple's senior vice president of operations, has been called 'Tim Cook's Tim Cook' by some.