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CEO advice from the leaders of Amazon, Apple, Tesla, Walmart…

An assortment of CEO advice from top executives.  Here are some of the CEOs sharing great advice: Elon Musk (CEO of Tesla, SpaceX), Tim Cook (Apple CEO), Jeff Bezos (Amazon CEO), Ingvar Kamprad (founder of IKEA)…

Amazon Founder – Jeff Bezos

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Apple Co-Founder – Steve Jobs

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Apple CEO – Tim Cook

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Facebook – Mark Zuckerberg

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Tesla – Elon Musk

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Walmart – Doug McMillon and Sam Walton

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CEO Advice

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CEO Advice and Quotes.

  • “20 years ago, I was pushed and mentored and given challenging assignments and then supported. That allowed me to have the career path I’ve had.” ~Mary Barra, CEO of GM
  • “The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth’s most customer-centric company.” ~Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon
  • Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. ~Richard Branson, founder of Virgin
  • “Just because you are CEO, don’t think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I’ve never forgotten that.”  ~Indra Nooyi, CEO of Pepsi
  • “Strategy is figuring out what not to do.” ~Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple
  • “If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them.” ~ Jack Ma, founder and CEO of Alibaba
  • “There is only one boss – the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”  ~Sam Walton, founder of Walmart
  • “We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain… what we will not do – and never have done – is stand still or turn a blind eye to problems in our supply chain.  On this you have my word.” ~Tim Cook, CEO Apple
  • “IKEA is not completely perfect. It irritates me to hear it said that IKEA is the best company in the world. We are going the right way to becoming it but we are not there yet.” ~ Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA
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“Persistence is very important.  You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.” ~Elon Musk, CEO SpaceX, Tesla, SolarCity.

CEO Advice

“Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.” ~Steve Jobs, co-founder Apple Inc.

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“If you don’t give up, you still have a chance.  Giving up is the greatest failure.” ~Jack Ma, CEO Alibaba

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“What we guard against around here is people saying, ‘Let’s thing about it.’  We make a decision.  Then we act on it.” ~Sam Walton, founder of Walmart.

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“All businesses need to be young forever.  If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s.” ~Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.

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“If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example.  I have to do so for all the IKEA employees.” ~Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA.

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“Risk more than others think is safe.  Dream more than others think is practical.” ~Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO

CEO Advice

“If you think standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.” ~Henry Ford

CEO quotes

“Tim Cook (CEO of Apple) and Mary Barra (CEO of General Motors) both held the top supply chain positions before becoming CEO.  Supply Chain is important!” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com

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