Steve Wozniak Quotes

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

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

Infosys was founded and run by professionals.

In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.

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

We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.

Look first at management. That's the key to a company.

A businessman can be as military as any politician.

People talk about managers having certain styles and philosophies... well, Benitez manages by conflict. Look right through his career and you will see it everywhere.

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job.

Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.

If you can run one company, you can run another. Running companies are about inspiring and driving the best out of people.

Being a president is being a CEO, essentially.

You don't characterize CEOs as dealmakers or in any one particular area. An important characteristic of a CEO is leader. That's probably the most important characteristic.

I personally admire Steve Jobs not most for what he did, or what he said, but for what he stood for. The largest lesson I learned from Steve was that the joy in life is in the journey, and I saw him live this every day.

The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.

I'm pretty happy with who I am. I like myself and what I'm doing. I don't need to be the world's greatest director or the most famous -- or the richest. I don't need to make a whole lot of great films. I can do my job and I can do it pretty well. This is the realization I've come to, later in life. It's called growing up.

To get married and have a family, is to grow up and mature. It's the only way. You can read philosophy books for a hundred years, but if you don't get married and have a family you will never get it. They soften you and shape you, mature you. Absolutely.

Before 20 or 25 employees, most companies are structured with everyone reporting to the founder. It's totally flat.

I have never issued an order since I have been the operating head of the corporation.

We have to bring back the individual. Management has smothered the individual.

It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

Ferguson, as a manager, and Ken, as a director, are very similar. One's a great manager, the other a great director, but both have a lot of humanity and a lot of humility. They always give you the energy... with Ferguson when we played a game it was like it was his first game - he's so passionate and gives you ambition every time. And Ken works the same way - they're very similar.

Peter Drucker being one of the most important influences because he has helped to think differently about organizational leadership and management. Frankly, I learn something of value from everyone I meet. My Harvard colleagues. My students. The executives I work with. For an eager student, which is what I am, there is so much to be learned from everyday experiences. I'm a sponge. Always will be.