There are major CEOs who do not know how to hold a knife and fork properly, but I don't worry about that as much as the lack of kindness.
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You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming.
I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.
I think, you know, a fellow CEO said to me that the interesting thing about being CEO that's really striking is that you have very few decisions that you need to make, and you need to make them absolutely perfectly.
When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.
I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.
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.
We're all shareholders. These guys below me, they see the CEO taking it easy, it's their money.
Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.
I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.
Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.
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