I don't feel I'm at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That's not fair; given CEOs have duties to their shareholders.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you're the CEO, you take responsibility.
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.
We're all shareholders. These guys below me, they see the CEO taking it easy, it's their money.
I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.
Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.
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.
No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.
You're doing a major merger, you got to hope you didn't get it wrong. That's the view of any CEO.
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.
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.