Eric Yuan Quotes

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

I think the greatest CEOs in the United States, business, anyway, are the ones you don't hear too much about.

I'm on the Business Roundtable, the CEOs of the largest 100-odd companies in the country. Most of these people wanted very much to be the CEO of a large public company but realize that it's not exactly what they had anticipated, for lots of reasons. One is competition has gotten a lot worse, and more global.

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

It's my experience at Fiat and, now, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles that when there is a very strong CEO, it's a good thing to be chairman.

My role is more like a chairman and founder. I am used to overseeing the company's heritage and our strategy.

I do not want to be a long-term CEO.

Infosys was founded and run by professionals.

Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team.

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

CEOs resign when the internal dynamics of the company and the external dynamics of the company actually come together to say it is appropriate. When the internal dynamics ask you whether you have a replacement. I think the transition from CEOships have also become cartoonish.

Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.

I think they, Peter McCullough was, turns out was not a good CEO.

Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar.

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

I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.

When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.

I find myself using the word 'executives' now.

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.

I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.

I'm the ninth CEO of IBM. Every one of my predecessors has steered through a technological shift, and every one left the company in a better position than the person before them and prepared this company with a very strong balance sheet to allow it to continue to invest for the next shift.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.