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The reality is that companies are full of things that are left unspoken. And even when they are out in the open, the CEO is almost always the last to know.

When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.

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.

I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.

I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.

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 most CEOs think their stock is undervalued, probably.

Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and growing a successful company.

CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one.