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As CEO, I accept responsibility for the irregularities that have been found in diesel engines and have therefore requested the Supervisory Board to agree on terminating my function as CEO of the Volkswagen Group.

— Martin Winterkorn

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When you're the CEO, you take responsibility.

— Rick Scott

Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

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.

— Kenneth C. Griffin

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.

— Howard Schultz

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

— Thomas Massie

I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.

— Jane Byrne

You're doing a major merger, you got to hope you didn't get it wrong. That's the view of any CEO.

— Ivan Glasenberg

On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have.

— Rick Wagoner

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

— Gavyn Davies

The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.

— Michael Porter

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