Nia Jax Quotes

I want people to see me as the entrepreneur, the boss, the public figure, the person who motivates.

When I was 28, running products for a company I'd co-founded, the CEO called to say that I had a problem with the board, that I probably couldn't overcome it, that I'd have to leave the company.

I think running Apple is a great job, but it suits Steve Jobs so well. I wouldn't want to be the person that ran Apple after Steve, but he has a great job.

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

Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.

As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.

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.

The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.

I am incredibly proud to return to the Yahoo board.

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.

Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

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

I've spent a lot of time studying corporations and what makes them tick.

Marc Lore has been a mentor of mine for a long time. He taught me how to hire people and how to do the hardest thing in business, which is to make a great culture. I believe Marc is the most innovative and ambitious e-commerce entrepreneur on the planet.

As a former CEO and senior executive, there was a time when I did not quite understand the profound impact a CEO has on the culture of a company, even though I always knew culture was important.

It's very easy to criticize the CEO of the market leader.

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

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.

Somebody asked me 'what's the job of a CEO', and there's a number of things a CEO does. What you mostly do is articulate the vision, develop the strategy, and you gotta hire people to fit the culture. If you do those three things, you basically have a company. And that company will hopefully be successful, if you have the right vision, the right strategy, and good people.

The characteristics of successful business people, whether they are male or female, are very similar. It's about determination, it's about enthusiasm, it's about strategy, it's about communication, it's about integrity. And sometimes men and women display those differently but fundamentally they are the same qualities.

I've always wanted to be a businessman. No other ambitions - I just wanted to be in business, even when I was a child in Fujian province, south China.

I like working with women who own their own power.

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

I think a CEO lives or dies in whether he's been able to hold on to elements of culture that are needed in the company.