Lauren Shuler Donner Quotes

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

Clearly, every company needs a leader. That's an important part of being the CEO of the company.

It's very easy to criticize the CEO of the market leader.

The reason I've been able to maintain my position of chairman of CBS in addition to all the Viacom stuff is my team.

I wrote '#GIRLBOSS' while running a $100 million-plus revenue business.

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

Our next CEO needs to thrive in a highly dynamic environment, to be capable of accelerating what is working very well for Cisco and disrupting what needs to change.

Honestly, for me, I'm a businessman but I'm a smart businessman.

Vince has always been so hands-on, and that's why WWE does so well.

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

I'm a capitalist, I'm a CEO, I run a big business, I'm an employer.

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.

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

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

We started Kotter International to improve leaders' ability to deal with big, important transformations in organizations - and in their lives.

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

As the leadership team, we're taking bold and decisive action to evolve our organization and culture. This includes difficult steps, but they are necessary to position Microsoft for future growth and industry leadership.

Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to run the business, but you're running the ranch without riding the big horse.

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.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

My mission is to become part of Time Inc. and push the business forward.

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.

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.

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