Executive Presence Quotes

You can't become a CEO without working hard and delivering results, but that will only take you so far. Building and leveraging strong relationships with mentors and sponsors will take you the rest of the way.

I'm a CEO of a public company. You have to show decorum.

Trump's inability to control his own emotions is standing between himself and the presidency.

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

It's better to look important than sexy.

Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.

I would love to be a corporate leader.

It's hard to brief in the Oval. You know, you can't - no visual aids, hard to roll out something in front of somebody.

If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.

For the longest time, I just felt like I had to be really, really harsh to be taken seriously as a CEO.

On style points alone, Donald Trump makes GWB look magnificently presidential.

I think any time there's a change in leadership there's a different personality, there's a different style involved with it, different demeanor.

One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or designers or marketers.

John Adams has neither judgment, firmness of mind, nor respectively of deportment to fill the chair of such an assembly.

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

I've talked in front of ... like... a lot of big business people about stuff I didn't even know.

I have a big mouth, and I have a temper, so that's not good for people. That's not good for executives.

There is so much power in being able to look comfortable in a conference room, and I’m not sure dudes in suits are used to seeing women do that.

It's a lot of talent sitting in suits.

To be considered presidential timber, there has to be a measure in the way you present your argument.

What I tell women who want to get on corporate boards is to get connected! Do volunteer work, network in business, join community organization where you can demonstrate your leadership capabilities and other people can see your skills being applied.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

...I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them-business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye.

Hold at least one all-hands meeting every quarter and, to underscore the startup's team concept, make sure at least one additional executive joins you in leading the meeting.

Power is confidence. The confidence to deliver your answer when you're in a board meeting is what will allow you to move up faster. The confidence to be yourself in front of people creates a separation.