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

You can stay too long in a job, that's for sure. But by the same token, in the 12 years I have been CEO of GE, there have been four CEOs of Toshiba. So there's too short a time to do it, and there's too long a time to do it.

CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.

21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.

Hell will freeze over before this CEO implements another employee benefit in this culture.

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

Too many companies are just being big for the sheer sake of it. Too many CEOs thinking bigger is better.

Whether you stay private or go public, after all is said and done, a CEO's job is to create lasting shareholder value.

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.