Karen Katz Quotes

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

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

Samsung's future hinges on new businesses, new products and new technologies. We should make our corporate culture more open, flexible and innovative.

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.

I am fully supportive of the strategy and leadership team at Valeant.

Meetings are the linchpin of everything. If someone says you have an hour to investigate a company, I wouldn't look at the balance sheet. I'd watch their executive team in a meeting for an hour. If they are clear and focused and have the board on the edge of their seats, I'd say this is a good company worth investing in.

One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.

An exit is only a success if you set an exit as your primary goal. My primary goal was to build a globally influential tool, to build something from the ground up that could literally change how we communicated in business and individually.

The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.

Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.

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

Innovation and corporate governance are extremely important to improve the profitability of Japanese companies and encourage them to increase wages, capital spending, and dividends.

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.

Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.

The most successful company in Silicon Valley is Apple, and they're the most secretive.

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

I will continue to focus on global strategy and to do everything I can to help Yahoo! realize its full potential and enhance its leading culture of technology and product excellence and innovation.

Companies the size of PepsiCo is like running a little republic, there is no question about it. The only difference is that I don't have to worry about the media hounding me every day, on every word that I say. I have a board of directors that runs the country in the interest of the stake holders.

A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.

If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.

Valuation depends on several factors. From an investor angle, they look at leadership position, management, and what the company's offerings are. I think these three things got 5/5 for a company like Flipkart, and that is what is driving valuations and growth.

The greatest companies in the world were started and are run by fanatics.

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

I know I should not be a hindrance to SoftBank's future growth and that I need to pass on the baton to the younger generation.

McDonalds. Apple. Starbucks. They were all small businesses, owned by entrepreneurs and people with vision.