Best CEO Quotes

Here are some of the best CEO quotes by top business minds.  Quotes are a great way to get concise information

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” ~Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO

“Work takes on new meaning when you feel you are pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it’s just a job, and life is too short for that.” ~Tim Cook, Apple CEO

“Growth and comfort do not coexist.” ~Ginni Rometty, IBM CEO

“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” ~Arianna Huffington, Co-Founder The Huffington Post Media Group

“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” ~Howard Schultz, Founder and CEO of Starbucks

“The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.” ~Reid Hoffman, co-founder LinkedIn

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”  ~Warren Buffett, CEO Berkshire Hathaway

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow. ~Rupert Murdoch, CEO 21st Century Fox

“Clients do not come first.  Employees come first.  If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.” ~Richard Branson, CEO Virgin Group

“Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution. What’s happened is that maybe everybody knows how to use computers, like they know how to read, but they don’t know how to write.” ~Susan Wojcicki, Youtube CEO

“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” ~Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO Amazon

“The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.” ~Debbi Fields, founder Mrs. Fields Cookies

“The business schools reward difficult complext behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.” ~Warren Buffett

“To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.” ~Sir Richard Branson, CEO Virgin Group

“When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.” ~Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder Github

“Winning has never been about making the most.” ~ Tim Cook, CEO Apple Inc.

“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” ~Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck-E-Cheese

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” ~Henry Ford

“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” ~Mary Kay Ash, Founder Mary Kay Cosmetics

“We’re all working together; that’s the secret.” ~Sam Walton, founder of Walmart

“The question I ask myself like almost every day is, ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?’… Unless I feel like I’m working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I’m not going to feel good about how I’m spending my time. And that’s what this company is.” ~ Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook 

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” ~Walt Disney, founder Disney

“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.” ~Ingvar Kamprad, Founder of IKEA

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”  ~ Jack Welch, former CEO of GE

“The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.“ ~Marc Benioff, CEO Salesforce

“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.”  ~Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motor Company

“You don’t need to be a genius or a visionary, or even a college graduate for that matter, to be successful. You just need framework and a dream.” ~ Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Computers

“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.” ~Richard Branson, Founder Virgin Group

“I’d rather Apple cannibalize Apple than somebody else cannibalize Apple.” ~Tim Cook

“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” ~Thomas Edison, Co-Founder of General Electric

“The difference between successful people and really succesful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.” ~Warren Buffett

“I never want to get a job because I’m female. I want to get it because I earned it and I deserve it… Whether my hair is going to be blue or purple, people should be judged on how well they do the job and deliver results and whether they do it the right way. That’s how I like to be judged; most people are like that.” ~Mary Barra, CEO GM

“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” ~Guy Kawasaki, co-founder Alltop

“The heart and soul of a company is creativity and innovation.” ~Robert Iger, CEO Walt Disney

“Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.” ~Elon Musk

“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance.  It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” ~ John D. Rockefeller, former CEO of Standard Oil

“I always did something that I was a little not ready to do. I think that, that is how you grow. When there’s a moment of ‘Wow, I’m not so sure that I can do this, and you push through those moments, it’s then that you have a breakthrough. Sometimes that’s a sign that something really great is about to happen. You’re about to grow and learn a lot more about yourself.”  ~ Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo

“My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.” ~ Steve Wozniak, former CEO of Apple Inc.

“I think if the people who work for a business are proud of the business they work for, they’ll work that much harder, and therefore, I think turning your business into a real force for good is good business sense as well.” ~Richard Branson, CEO Virgin

“What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.” ~Jeff Bezos

“Our industry does not respect tradition – it only respects innovation.”  ~Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO

“At Wal-Mart, it goes back to Sam Walton and the foundation and business model that we simply operate for less, or everyday low cost.  We’re known for operating in a very efficient way and then giving those savings to customers.” ~ Mike Duke, former CEO of Walmart

“Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40-hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour workweeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing, you know that you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve.”  ~Elon Musk, Founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors

“All businesses need to be young forever.  If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s.” ~ Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon

“Just because you are CEO, don’t think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I’ve never forgotten that.” ~Indra Nooyi, Pepsico CEO

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