I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.
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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 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.
As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
You're doing a major merger, you got to hope you didn't get it wrong. That's the view of any CEO.
Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.
If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales.
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.
If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.
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.
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.