CEO

“When it comes to being a CEO that your people love, make sure that you don't confuse being loved and being liked.”

“We have CEOs whose teams, like, love the clone, because they don't want to bother the CEO, and they're using it to, okay, is this how he would make, or she would make decisions?”

“Today's CEO is a person that they need to know who their brand is. The most successful CEOs I know, they're doing millions and billions of dollars, but nobody knows who they are. But yet the kid in the mailroom gets pissed off over a decision you make and put …”

“Influence without direction, just noise. CEOs do not leave conversations open-ended. They move people to act.”

“Top speakers or the people that you look up to or the CEOs you look up to in the world, they look pretty calm when they speak because they're actually trying to regulate the room's nervous system without anyone noticing.”

“This is key if you want to be a CEO in business. You need to negotiate forward, not backward. Instead of replaying the old scene for the 12th time, you can say, next time this happens, what do you need from me? Here's what I need from you.”

“If you want to figure out what the job of a CEO is, it's communicate well, get other people to buy into your dream, and understand how to solve complex problems using a series of unrelated disciplines or networks.”

“There's a dynamic where people, I think, want to be in the same room as like the person, the CEO, the leader, the whatever, like that, that those meetings are an opportunity for FaceTime probably in some ways that are like more about the political game than th…”

“My job as a CEO, and people may not like this answer, but my job as a CEO is to make sure that this company goes on for the next 1015, 20, a hundred years, and to drive shareholder value. Take the emotions out of it. Right? That's gonna hurt some feelings, but…”

“And so many CEOs that we know, so many operators are like, well, I've got a board meeting to prepare for. I've got a weekly meeting. I've got a status update. I've got to do this. I've got to do that. And they're sort of caught in the like minutia and maintena…”

“There are studies after studies, but there's this one by Gallup That found that the CEOs who delegate best pull in 33% more revenue than the ones who don't.”

“Your CEO, as a CEO, your real job is really three things, which is give a vision so big other people see their dream is bigger underneath you. Create systems inside of your business so that the business runs without you, and be so delusional optimistic that ot…”