Lynn Good Quotes

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.

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 honored to be named chairman of Duke Energy's board and privileged to lead our company forward for our customers, employees, and shareholders.

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.

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

Too many talk about a company's leadership, referring to the senior most executives in the organization. They are just that: senior executives. Leadership doesn't automatically happen when you reach a certain pay grade. Hopefully you find it there, but there are no guarantees.

Lewis Booth and Derrick Kuzak represent the very best of Ford and our culture and built a legacy of leadership, integrity and commitment to excellence that will benefit us for years to come.

Defining, embedding, and living core beliefs set the stage for executives and employees to connect. Through actions that consistently convey who we are and how we act, executives can inspire employees to believe in the organization's values and buy in to its brand.

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

Even though I am Chairman of Dole Food Company, I do most of my own grocery shopping.

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

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

You can't run a company simply by the numbers. So if you're going to bet on someone, you bet on someone you want to be in business with for a long time.

I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business.

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

A CEO needs to build their own team.

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

I am incredibly proud to return to the Yahoo board.

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

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

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.

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.

In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.