W. Edwards Deming Quotes

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

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

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

What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.

[Describing her role:] It's like running a big corporation and a little country at the same time.

Most corporate disasters are driven not by market forces, but by CEOs messing things up.

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

Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.

Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.

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

Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.

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.

When I was a CEO, the books on management that I read weren't very much help after the first few months on the job. They were all designed to give you directions on how not to screw up your company.

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

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.

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

Historically, NBCUniversal had brilliant people, but some of them didn't do a very good job of working together.

If I spend all of my day in the details as a CEO of a company like Wal-Mart, I think it would be trouble, because I wouldn't really be prepared to speak to the big issues that the country or the world should face.

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.

Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.

A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.

I'm not too involved in day-to-day matters. I only supervise at the board level.