Kenneth Frazier Quotes

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

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.

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

Actually, that issue of 'Don't be evil' is probably the number one reason we throw out ideas.

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

Culture is what happens when the CEO isn't in the room.

The bar for a chief executive of a public corporation to repudiate a United States president is extraordinarily high. Corporate leaders aren't given their power, prestige, responsibility, and nine-figure pay packages to use the corner office as their personal soapbox.

I think corporations and people are very different. People make corporations whatever it is that they're going to be.

A company's ethical behavior is ultimately triggered by some sense of caring. And care is a sense of closeness to someone or something. A company must bring value to whom or what it is close to.

Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.

They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

We've got some well-run corporations by some well-intended people who do it right.

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

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

Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.

Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.

'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.

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.

The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.

A social contract is the way out of this dilemma for corporations that want to lead in the 21st century by showing consumers how seriously they take customer loyalty and goodwill.

We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude.

I am incredibly proud to return to the Yahoo board.

A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society.

It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life.