CEOs who can hire properly, that's the most important part of the job. The CEO's job is really to hire the right team and execute the vision second.

- Bill Maris

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

- Ivan Glasenberg

The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.

- David A. Siegel

No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.

- Drew Houston

I'm so glad I didn't become a doctor, because I do more than any doctor can do. I am an administrator, a CEO, doctor, psychiatrist, an activist, a campaign funder. I think I did well.

- Dikembe Mutombo

I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.

- Dave Chappelle

Larry Fink, 61, tall and outgoing and passionate about his business, is the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of the largest asset-management company in the world, BlackRock.

- Carol Loomis

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

- Carlos Ghosn

When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.

- Carlos Ghosn

The President is the CEO of this business that we call America.

- Bill Ackman

The day I was announced as CEO, I think the stock dropped another 20%.

- Anne M. Mulcahy

Well, I, you know, I think at PIMCO we always try and be open with the press and the public. I mean, isn't that what voters want from their politicians? Mohamed El-Erian, our CEO, writes several op-eds a week.

- Bill Gross

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

- Ben Horowitz

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

- Bill Gates

A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.

- Andy Hertzfeld

You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that.

- Andrea Jung

I think they, Peter McCullough was, turns out was not a good CEO.

- Arthur Rock

Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

- Al-Waleed bin Talal

I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.

- Andrew Mason

I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.

- Angela Ahrendts