CEO

“It's very hard to run a company when the founders are in place and Kind of want to have the last word.”

“I'm probably different from a lot of typical CEOs, where I like to use the analogy of, imagine a greenhouse, where maybe at a typical company, the CEO might be the strongest and tallest Most charismatic plant that all the other plants strive to one day become,…”

“I think CEO is a word that I've always I, I'm always been sort of uncomfortable with. And not actually held that title. I used to call myself chief creative officer.”

“Being in business, and I think especially being a CEO, requires a lot of unnatural optimism, and at some point, it's just that optimism is exhausted.”

“I've always I, I'm always been sort of uncomfortable and not actually held that title. I used to call myself chief creative officer.”

“I had decided that day that I was going to go against the new CEO's mandate that I was not supposed to be on the property.”

“To be a CEO, you have to learn how to take control and not necessarily listen to all the voices around the table.”

“When it's, the business is small, you can kind of be the CEO. So you know everybody, you live and breathe it, and then you could be a CEO, because you touch everything. But then a business, you know, once a business gets past a certain point, you know, it's im…”

“There's a pervasive sense of short-termism that has invaded our markets. The reality is, when you have such short-term pressure on our CEOs, they react. And what that ends up meaning is cost-cutting. And they avoid the kind of transformative events that drove …”

“There has to be space for CEOs to be human and to be learning and growing alongside everyone else, and I reject the notion that a CEO should be You know know-all, be-all. Like, that's really dangerous, right? That's not good. So I stepped back from that practi…”

“The thing to do was you got up early in the morning and you started calling the office of the CEO because typically the person supporting them Wasn't in the office till like eight 30 or nine. And so if you got up at seven, most of these people were in the offi…”