Glenn Kelman Quotes

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 question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've... I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward.

I'm not big on reading business books. I get copies of all of them, because people want me to put a comment on the jacket. Every once in a while, I'll get interested and read one all the way through.

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.

I remember early in my career with Disney, which was a very strange time in the company - there were a couple of executives who were very supportive of me and kind of let me do my own thing.

As someone who started a company with an idea of creating a luxury brand with a soul, I needed to learn more about how I effect change.

Business books are generally read and written by people who aren't good at business.

SK will evolve and develop based on its corporate culture and human resources.

Somebody we never talk about is Stephanie McMahon. She is such a huge power influence in our company. She is always pushing us to go the limit, and she doesn't take much credit for what she's done.

I have spent 25 years battling to tell people that business is important. People aren't prepared to understand that it's a complex piece of machinery.

I've had a real business education.

There's only two things that I really care about - apart from family - one is business and the other is women in business.

We need better corporate environments. We need better workplaces everywhere.

During the day, I'm a business owner. I'm a teacher and a mentor.

I'm Shaggy. I'm a business.

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.

Learning from Martin Sorrell will be perfect. I won't leave him alone, I'll be asking him questions the whole day, just like a striker. He's going to have to tell me everything.

I've got my own businesses I run every day and I like to think I'm a nurturer rather than a firer, but the reality is, if somebody continues not to succeed and do the right thing for the business they lose the job because they are affecting the livelihoods of others.

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.

Don't mess with Sergio Marchionne.

In the years after I left Netflix, the company I co-founded, I didn't want to puff myself up or tear anyone else down.

When you start giving interviews like the CEO of an established company, it's just wrong.

I am a businessman.

No one gave me a recipe for how to create company culture. I wish I had had one.