Ceos Quotes

“I see a role for specialized knowledge, but I think that it's important for there to be an arena where it is shared, where it is communicated. It's not that somebody shouldn't have specialized knowledge. The ability to dig a trench and lay a cable is a kind of specialized knowledge. Farmers have specialized knowledge, too. The question is: what sort of knowledge is privileged in our societies? I don't think that a CEO is more valuable to society and ought to be paid ten million dollars a year, while farmers and laborers starve.The range of what is valued has become so extreme that one lot of people have captured it and left three-quarters of the world to live in unthinkable poverty, because their work is not valued. What would happen if the sweepers of the city went on strike or the sewage system didn't work? A CEO wouldn't be able to deal with his own shit.”

“I see a role for specialized knowledge, but I think that it's important for there to be an arena where it is shared, where it is communicated. It's not that somebody shouldn't have specialized knowledge. The ability to dig a trench and lay a cable is a kind of specialized knowledge. Farmers have specialized knowledge, too. The question is: what sort of knowledge is privileged in our societies? I don't think that a CEO is more valuable to society and ought to be paid ten million dollars a year, while farmers and laborers starve.The range of what is valued has become so extreme that one lot of people have captured it and left three-quarters of the world to live in unthinkable poverty, because their work is not valued. What would happen if the sweepers of the city went on strike or the sewage system didn't work? A CEO wouldn't be able to deal with his own shit.”

“Remember, before they promoted to the chair of CEO, they were the best employees of their companies.”

“Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.”

“The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs”

“The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.”

“CEOs should be measured by the value they create into the community, the shareholders and the members of the company.”

“Making heroes out of celebrity CEOs is at the heart of the crisis in corporate leadership.”

“Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.”

“CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.”

“The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.”