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In business, sometimes you have to change the CEO in order to change the direction of the company.

Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.

I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board, but most CEO's are hired by the board.

To be a CEO is a calling. You should not do it because it is a job. It is a calling, and you have got to be involved in it with your head, heart and hands. Your heart has got to be in the job; you got to love what you do; it consumes you. And if you are not willing to get into the CEO job that way, there is no point getting into it.

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

If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.

CEOs can stay too long.

In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.

When you're the CEO, you take responsibility.

As a CEO, you get sucked into dealing with all the tasks of being a CEO. There's a big meeting, a big discussion, and you get into all the big issues, which is your job. But what CEOs often lose sight of is that it's all about the people who work for you. For every 1,000 decisions, 999 were being made when I was not in the room.