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We’ve collected the best Chief Executive Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Carrie Lam, Marcy Kaptur, Patrisse Cullors, Alan Pardew, Stuart Rose. Use them as an inspiration.

1
Those who care about constitutional development should look beyond universal suffrage for the chief executive election and turn their sights to universal suffrage for Legco as well.
2
A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class.
3
If the chief executive cannot have a party background, how can she ensure her team is wholeheartedly united?
4
Throughout every presidency since the heist of our country from indigenous peoples, the black American experience has been exceptional in its discomfort. And no chief executive of this great nation has, in earnest, developed a unique plan to remedy that discomfort.
5
I remember the chief executive at Southampton after Nicola Cortese thanking me for the platform I left them. That recognition is always nice. That’s like winning a trophy for me.
6
I was the chief executive once, I’ve been there. My recommendation to anybody is don’t go backwards.
7
If I paid more attention to my appearance, people might think that the proficiency of design industry isn’t too bad in a city with such a chief executive.
8
Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
9
To say that I’m going to veto something that I haven‘t read is just – or sign something that I haven’t read – I don’t think is good policy for any chief executive.
10
We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
11
The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization and it requires the requisite skills to understand how to be the leader of the people and manage the government of N.Y.
12
The chief executive officer is also the chief sales officer. He or she is responsible for the success of the company and making a profit. The closer the CEO is to the everyday selling process, bringing in business, the more successful the company will become.
13
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.
Edward Johnson, III
14
A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.
15
Mr. Trump is a chief executive in the private setting of a very complex business.
16
You hire a chief executive, pay him, and hold him accountable after a year or two. The time for so-called honorary jobs is over. What Pakistan squash needs is results, and that can only be achieved by professionals.
17
Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings – at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
J. Irwin Miller
18
William Henry Harrison, who died of pneumonia in April of 1841, after only one month in office, was the first Chief Executive to hide his physical frailties.
19
A president who believed that America’s greatness is recoverable and expandable – a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restorationwould reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced.
20
I am honoured to be appointed as the first chief executive of UKRI. My ambition is to make UKRI the world‘s leading research and innovation public funding agency.
21
I don’t believe the government should determine what a woman does in this area any more than it should tell a chief executive how to run a company. Personal and family matters, relationships between doctors and patients should not be within the purview of government.
22
I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.
23
Deep in the heart of Kentucky‘s rugged Eastern Mountain region, there lives a woman who has fascinated and inspired me for two decades. She is known locally these days as ‘Mayor Nan’ – the octogenarian chief executive of Hazard and advocate for its 5,467 residents.
24
A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class.
25
When you give chief executives too much compensation in stock options, they concentrate too much on the stock price, and there is a perverse incentive to raise the stock price, particularly when the chief executive wants to exercise his own options.
George Akerlof
26
When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous trouble is taken to find the best person.
27
In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
28
We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
29
My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand.
Henry Mintzberg
30
I remember the chief executive at Southampton after Nicola Cortese thanking me for the platform I left them. That recognition is always nice. That’s like winning a trophy for me.
31
I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.
32
I am honoured to be appointed as the first chief executive of UKRI. My ambition is to make UKRI the world‘s leading research and innovation public funding agency.
33
If the chief executive cannot have a party background, how can she ensure her team is wholeheartedly united?
34
As representatives, we are accountable first not to our party, not to our leadership, not to the chief executive, but just to our constituents.
35
I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.
36
Presidents have, of course, acted inappropriately in the past, and our constitutional system has a framework in place for addressing misconduct by the chief executive. But it’s designed to deal with straightforward criminal activity, not national security threats.
37
I’m a former governor, and so I was the chief executive, and when the legislature wasn’t in session, I was running the state.
38
I’m Chief Executive Officer at Art of the Olympians Museum in Fort Myers, Florida, which was founded by my Mexico City teammate Al Oerter and his wife Cathy in 2005. It shows that Olympians can have another life; we have got art from more than 100 Olympians.
Bob Beamon
39
I don’t want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.
40
Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language, it also contains a part that constitutes a person, a self: the chief executive of all the subsystems.
41
As a chief executive determined to lead Hong Kong to new heights, I am keenly aware of the immense responsibilities on my shoulders.
42
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
43
In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
44
Life is very good. I’m the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.
45
It is by these, the people, that I have been clothed with the high powers which they have seen fit to confide to their Chief Executive, and been charged with the solemn responsibility under which those powers are to be exercised.
46
In the modern presidency, the Chief Executive is expected to respond to anxious national moments with words that stabilize the country. President Trump chose a different route. He did not give a stirring speech of unity or create a national gathering point around common ideals. He spent his passion on other things.
47
Life is very good. I’m the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.
48
It’s often said that the most important qualities in a chief executive are character and judgment.
49
Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport‘s successful and you’re its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.
Pete Rozelle
50
The governor is Virginia‘s chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times.
51
As representatives, we are accountable first not to our party, not to our leadership, not to the chief executive, but just to our constituents.
52
I’m Chief Executive Officer at Art of the Olympians Museum in Fort Myers, Florida, which was founded by my Mexico City teammate Al Oerter and his wife Cathy in 2005. It shows that Olympians can have another life; we have got art from more than 100 Olympians.
Bob Beamon
53
A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.
54
Apple chief executive Tim Cook is such a respected figure that it’s easy to overlook the basic problem with his argument about encryption: Cook is asserting that a private company and the interests of its customers should prevail over the public’s interest as expressed by our courts.
55
I don’t want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.
56
In the fall of the year 2000, there just happened to be a decision point when they asked me to become Chief Executive Officer of the company. It was a time when, as you remember, we were starting to have some real problems in the California energy markets.
Jeffrey Skilling
57
When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous trouble is taken to find the best person.
58
I’ve made no secret that although I loved being a legislator, I particularly loved being a chief executive.
59
I’ve said all along we need a chief executive, not a chief politician, in the White House.
60
I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.
61
I don’t believe the government should determine what a woman does in this area any more than it should tell a chief executive how to run a company. Personal and family matters, relationships between doctors and patients should not be within the purview of government.
62
Deep in the heart of Kentucky‘s rugged Eastern Mountain region, there lives a woman who has fascinated and inspired me for two decades. She is known locally these days as ‘Mayor Nan’ – the octogenarian chief executive of Hazard and advocate for its 5,467 residents.
63
Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
64
I do believe Hong Kong‘s 5 million eligible voters want the chance to elect their chief executive.
65
William Henry Harrison, who died of pneumonia in April of 1841, after only one month in office, was the first Chief Executive to hide his physical frailties.
66
As the founder and former chief executive of two publicly traded companies, I have had a great deal of exposure to how debt markets work.