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Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.

I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.

I hated being a public company CEO.

I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.

No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.

I do not want to be a long-term CEO.

I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.

Every time a new CEO came, I got a promotion till I was made CEO myself.

I always believe that, as you start out, while you should have a big dream - a big goal - but it's also important to move step by step. So, you know, frankly, if you ask me, when I started as a management trainee in 1984, I don't know that I really thought that I would become the CEO.