Frances Hesselbein Quotes

A philanthropic venture requires all the energy, knowledge and money from its founder that a company requires from the leadership team.

It's important to experience as many parts of an organization as you can - because some day, you may have the chance to lead that organization.

Being a president is being a CEO, essentially.

I'm a capitalist, I'm a CEO, I run a big business, I'm an employer.

I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.

You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.

Clearly in my mind, I have two distinct positions - owner and manager. So I am open to reviewing my performance as a manager as any other person in Sun Pharma.

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

Nobody is actually a natural C.E.O.

I volunteer a lot of my time with an organization in New York called The Center for Children and Families.

The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.

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

I remained a member of the section till 1947, becoming Director in 1946.

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

You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.

The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.

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

I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

At the moment we need training for leadership.

Eric Schmidt from Google is one of my favorite mentors. And Eric would always say this very humbling thing that's really true, which is, he would say, 'Good executives confuse themselves when they convince themselves that they actually do things.'

When you're the CEO, you take responsibility.

There's something exhilarating about being in the mountains and talking about management and the future with Peter Drucker.

To me, personally, my development to become a head coach will be much better working for Coach Saban than necessarily going somewhere else because you learn every day that you're in there.

I was a coach at Spurs for 15 years. I did want to go into management but what was important to me was doing a very good job in whatever capacity I was employed.