Stephanie Ruhle Quotes

American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.

My family has big business background, and I like to stay busy, too.

I am not a politician. I'm an American businessman and entrepreneur that have built two businesses, and I try to play it straight with people.

It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.

People have asked me, 'Is it about Apple or is it about Jobs?' and I say it's about how a man becomes his company and the company becomes the man. That has only happened a few times, like it happened with Ford, I think, they became inextricably linked together.

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.

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

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

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

I think there is a lot of good in making the All-Star Team. People look at your career a little bit differently.

Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

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

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

If you go through some big corporate change, it's just not going to be the same. If we sold to Yahoo, they would have done something different; if you want to continue your vision of the company, then don't sell because there's inevitably going to be some change.

Jack Welch is someone who I have always admired. In India, Narayana Murthy is someone who I have great respect for.

I am who I am, and I'm focused on that, and being a great CEO of Apple.

What I have against M.B.A.s is the assumption that you come out of a two-year program probably never having been a manager - at least for full-time younger people M.B.A. programs - and assume you are ready to manage.

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

Sir Richard Branson is probably the best communicator ever. He was an inspiration for me - contrary to some reports, we've never done business together, although we did discuss an aviation venture very early on. I don't think easyJet competes with Virgin - we're in different areas.

I'm inspired every day by the great captains of industry and enlightened entrepreneurs like my great-great-grandfather and founder of Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli, who personally knew all his workers and gave so much to this country, or Adriano Olivetti, unique and innovative in every way.

I am a serious businesswoman. I don't enjoy being out there on TV; it's not what I do well. But I love building companies; I love making products.

My favorite magazine is the 'Harvard Business Review.' If someone sat across from me in a restaurant and didn't know me, that might surprise them.

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.