Bobby Kotick Quotes

For me, I think Bob Iger is one of the smartest men in the country.

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

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

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.

The reason I've been able to maintain my position of chairman of CBS in addition to all the Viacom stuff is my team.

Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

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.

I used to think my job as a CEO meant managing metrics and meeting goals, but I've realised now that's it's about managing my board and employees.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

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

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

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

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

Global competition is about winners and losers.

Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team.

As a first-time CEO, I wasn't sure if I would scale to run IronPort long-term. But I wanted a legitimate shot at it.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

If heads don’t roll, nobody makes any changes

Sometimes, for businesses, competition can be inconvenient, because competition means that the race is never over, the game is never won. No matter how well you were doing in the past, there's always someone who are out there wanting to take your place. So the temptation to avoid competition is powerful. It's rooted in motives as old as Adam and Eve: in greed for yet more money, in fear of losing your position in the market and all the benefits it brings.

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

My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.

I am the CEO of HCL Corporation, and, of course, a large part of my time does get spent in HCL Corporation, whether it is in actively managing our investments or perhaps even the governance and accountability and really seeing the strategic direction forward for HCL Corporation.

Yahoo is a great company, and anyone should be proud to be CEO.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.