Company Leadership Quotes

Abby Johnson has agreed to become Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity, reflecting a further step forward in our leadership succession plan. Abby will retain her role of President, and I will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board.

I would say that I'm blessed with a very, very good executive team that operates, reasonably autonomously, each of the companies.

Microsoft is one of those rare companies to have truly revolutionized the world through technology, and I couldn't be more honored to have been chosen to lead the company.

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.

As a team, we have a lot of work ahead of us in FY16 and beyond, but I am confident that, working together, we will make Microsoft a leader in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.

MindTree has grown into a strong company and has a great leadership team at its helm which can continue to propel the company in the future.

I am excited to join the Workday Board at an exciting time in the company's growth and look forward to leveraging my past experience as a technologist and entrepreneur to provide advice as they continue to look at new areas of growth.

I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company.

Valuation depends on several factors. From an investor angle, they look at leadership position, management, and what the company's offerings are. I think these three things got 5/5 for a company like Flipkart, and that is what is driving valuations and growth.

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

I think in general, people who aren't themselves entrepreneurs are often more risk averse. And I think you see this dynamic a lot with entrepreneurial people who lead a company, which is that they hire people who complement them.

It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27.

I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.

When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.

HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it's mine. I run it. I have employees.

As you would expect, I come from a business background, and the idea that a finance director would be somewhat not working closely with the CEO of a company is very strange to anyone in the business world.

Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business.

With some exceptions, the wrong people are running U.S. companies. It's been that way for years, and it hasn't gotten much better.

If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.

I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.

I am honored to be able to serve GM at this critical juncture and take part in its reinvention.

Our nation, our economy, and our families would be much stronger if half of our companies were run by women and half of our households were run by men.

Too many talk about a company's leadership, referring to the senior most executives in the organization. They are just that: senior executives. Leadership doesn't automatically happen when you reach a certain pay grade. Hopefully you find it there, but there are no guarantees.