Chris Sacca Quotes

Nobody is actually a natural C.E.O.

In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.

I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business.

I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.

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

Almost no one wants to admit the genius of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Apparently, many have failed to see that Amazon has become the world's biggest retail company.

When I was in the private sector, one characteristic that differentiated the best entrepreneurs from the others was that they were not in it for the stock options, but for a mission - to deliver something that was helpful... Every entrepreneurial journey, it turns out, is like this.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.

There's no reason why I can't be a mogul. When I step into a room and I'm there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he's talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

The greatest companies in the world were started and are run by fanatics.

I like to believe that I got my business knowledge from my dad. He was able to see trends a long way off. And my mom is very good with people and emotional.

I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one.

When Gates was active in business, he was the smartest - so focused that no company could surpass Microsoft.

I have always regrets about selling anything of Reed Hastings because he's really a good manager and a great capitalist.

I define leadership as: Emotionally, you own your business. You own it with passion. And you either have or you don't have an economic investment. But when you have all three of those, you are the boss from Day One, and you care every single day more than anyone.

I have had the pleasure of knowing Mitt Romney for several years now. There's so much to appreciate about him. He fixes things. He's results-driven. He's taken broken companies and made them successful.

Elon Musk is a very, very smart man, but there are a lot of smart people in this world, and you've got to execute. He's got execution problems.

I'm a businessman. I'm a former legislator, and I'm an executive. And I've been very effective in each one of those positions.

Being a CEO requires a specific skill set, and a background in engineering equips individuals with the ability to plan logically and make decisions that fit properly within the context of the business.

Always taken Donald Trump seriously. I think people have underestimated him.

Uber is a company that is redefining the transportation industry on a global basis; to be part of that story is something that is interesting and would be a real privilege.

I know this: Jerry Jones is unique, he's as cool as James Bond and he has a command of his business. He can step into any arena and succeed.

In Joe Yorio you find a guy who's smarter at business than I am. I'm an entrepreneur and idea guy; he's a professional businessman.