I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If I'm a CEO, I want to be in a place where the government works.
I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.
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.
I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.
I never imagined working with CEOs, congressmen or the military, yet I make regular visits to the Pentagon, stop by the Capitol now and then and sit down with leaders of all kinds of companies.
I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.
I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.
I've made no secret that although I loved being a legislator, I particularly loved being a chief executive.
Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.
I have 15 years of executive experience as a big-city mayor and as a governor.
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