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I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.

I do not want to be a long-term CEO.

If I'm a CEO, I want to be in a place where the government works.

Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.

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

I always believe that, as you start out, while you should have a big dream - a big goal - but it's also important to move step by step. So, you know, frankly, if you ask me, when I started as a management trainee in 1984, I don't know that I really thought that I would become the CEO.

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.

CEOs can stay too long.

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