“If CEOs insist that middle class Americans compete with cheap foreign labor, why not outsource the jobs of CEOs? If business is all about cost, they should be the first to volunteer.” IfsShouldFirstsJobsClassMiddleCostLaborMiddle ClassWhy NotVolunteerCeo Author:Lou Dobbs
“Sometimes I hear news about the huge dollars involved with CEO pay and corporate-management salaries, and I'm mystified at how someone can justify taking that much at the cost of other people's livelihoods. In a bizarre way, I'm almost kind of curious, like "How can they absolve themselves and enjoy their wealth?" I don't understand it.” PeopleWayKindSometimesEnjoyWealthPayHugeInvolvedCostNewsManagementDollarsCuriousCorporateJustifyCeoBizarreSalaryLivelihood Author:Eddie Vedder
“Silicon Valley companies need to be asked to bring the best and brightest, the most recent technology to the table. I was asked as a CEO. I complied happily. And they will as well. But they have not been asked. That's why it cost billions of dollars to build an [Barack] Obama website that failed because the private sector wasn't asked.” NeedsWellsCompanyTechnologyCostTablesDollarsBillionsBarackValleysCeoWebsitePrivate SectorSiliconSilicon Valley Author:Carly Fiorina
“The most effective CEOs have a primary source for tracking their markets. They meet with their teams frequently enough to keep innovation flowing, to reduce and focus costs, to be energized. They create a tight agenda and they set high goals.” EnoughGoalFocusTeamSourceCostInnovationPrimariesAgendasCeoTrackingPrimary SourceHigh Goals Author:Michael J. Silverstein
“Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.” LongEyeUniverseGriefKnowingSubjectsCostDistancePatternsCreditDrivenUsualCrashCeoBorrowingThrough The EyesInterruptionsBorrowing Money Author:James Buchan