Roshni Nadar Quotes

Sitting on a corporate board is a hobby for me.

We've got some well-run corporations by some well-intended people who do it right.

A lot of deals are done or not done because chief executives are not fully aligned to shareholders.

Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

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'm going to continue doing my thing and work my butt off to add value for shareholders and as long as they and the board see fit to keep me in this role, I feel enormously privileged to serve.

The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

Companies the size of PepsiCo is like running a little republic, there is no question about it. The only difference is that I don't have to worry about the media hounding me every day, on every word that I say. I have a board of directors that runs the country in the interest of the stake holders.

I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.

When I took over the family business, it had already been a publicly traded company for 20 years. During one of the first annual meetings I attended, one shareholder stood up and advised me and everyone in attendance that I should resign.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

You don't think, when you start a company as the founding CEO, that if your venture actually works, you end up with three jobs: founder, CEO, and chair of the board. The first eight years at Bonobos, I have learned a lot about the tension between the first two. It didn't even occur to me that I had the third job until much later.

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job.

But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.

I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

I do not want to be a long-term CEO.

We're all shareholders. These guys below me, they see the CEO taking it easy, it's their money.

I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board, but most CEO's are hired by the board.

The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.

Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

I'm willing to have two directors on the DuPont board, me being one of them.

In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.