Herman Cain Quotes

People don't just show up in the C-suite overnight.

I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.

While I'm trying to be different, I'm trying to be very conservative at this point in my career.

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.

I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.

If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.

No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.

If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.

David Moyes was one who, at a certain crossroads in my career, he was there. And since then, I've kicked on. That's why he played such a big role in my career.

Every time a new CEO came, I got a promotion till I was made CEO myself.

I regard office as not an end but an opportunity.

Just because you started your careers in a certain role, let's say hardware engineering, does not mean you'll end your careers in hardware.

You know what, I didn't see myself being an executive producer.

If you are a manager who is in your first or second job, the big worry would be where is your next job coming from, but I'm not in that position.

You take the job, you learn from it, and you move on.

I joined 3G when I was 24, but I didn't really have much of a management role there. I became C.F.O. when we acquired Burger King, so that was my first time managing people. I had just turned 30.

If my ambition was to stay a manager the rest of my life, then I'd probably follow what people think managers are supposed to be like, but my ambition was never to be a manager.

What I have done in my management career means I would have a good chance to get offered a job that will give me a chance to achieve success again.

And every job that I had was a stepping stone to my next job and I never quit my job until I had my next job. And so opportunities look a lot like work.

I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to. '

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.

Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.

I just love where I am right now in my career.