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I'm a big believer in personal responsibility regardless circumstances at the end of the day that's the only thing that really makes a big difference. If you can get some help from people along the…

David Cote ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer HON ·Apr 2023

Leadership from the heart is doing the right things for the right reasons. And it comes back, you know, that my favorite phrase is that Zig Ziglar phrase which is, you know, you can get anything you…

Glenn Sanford ·Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer EXPI ·Sep 2020

I'm not really excited about the fact that we have 41 trillion dollars in U.S. debt. I think that's something that we'll have to get reworked out of the system. And again, EXP should be able to…

Glenn Sanford ·Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer EXPI ·Sep 2020

I fully own the fact that if we aren't vigilant and we aren't continuing to iterate and continue to make the best model, somebody will eat our lunch. And they deserve to eat our lunch. So I'm not…

Glenn Sanford ·Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer EXPI ·Sep 2020

The single biggest cost to run a real estate brokerage is the bricks and mortar followed closely by the staffing costs... broker owners have to charge at least a 70/30 split with their agents just to…

Glenn Sanford ·Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer EXPI ·Sep 2020

We were built for what we're going through. We launched after the downturn in 2008 going into 2009. We recognized that the fact was is that we finally had technology... our phones now, you know,…

Glenn Sanford ·Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer EXPI ·Sep 2020

In fact, we're expanding today from four data centers to over 20 data centers in very short, very short time. And a lot of that is driven by our work in Japan. Our work in Japan is to continue to…

Michael Sicilia ·Chief Executive Officer & Director ORCL ·May 2026

We think strengthen country's security posture as well as digital infrastructure. We also doing this in a way that's a bit unique. Our approach is different. We understand the need for sovereign…

Michael Sicilia ·Chief Executive Officer & Director ORCL ·May 2026

Japan has very special place over years... we had announced a billion dollar investment... we're open to additional investment as well. In fact, we're here this week hosting thousands of our…

Michael Sicilia ·Chief Executive Officer & Director ORCL ·May 2026

Bitcoin as a store of value is where all the institutional action is happening today. BlackRock all these other ETF applications. What's the benefit to having an ETF? Well you remove all the friction…

Frederick Thiel ·Chief Executive Officer & Executive Chairman MATV ·Feb 2024

FASB's rule change has a huge impact because now you have the ability to mark to market. So for insurance companies and other institutional holders as a long-lived and tangible asset you can only…

Frederick Thiel ·Chief Executive Officer & Executive Chairman MATV ·Feb 2024

Bitcoin mining data centers interruptible load you can shut them off at any time. If you're running an LLM you can't shut it off. You need network ping of 35 milliseconds or less so you need to be…

Frederick Thiel ·Chief Executive Officer & Executive Chairman MATV ·Feb 2024

We made a commitment two years ago that we were going to be fully carbon neutral in our operations and we believe that Bitcoin mining can not only be carbon neutral but carbon negative and we also…

Frederick Thiel ·Chief Executive Officer & Executive Chairman MATV ·Feb 2024

We view Bitcoin mining as really having an industrial function which is heat generation.

Frederick Thiel ·Chief Executive Officer & Executive Chairman MATV ·Feb 2024

Last but not least is dollars follow ideas and talent. This capital problem is no longer a problem in West Virginia. We have venture capitalists that are sitting here now saying, 'I want to support a…

Brad Smith ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer INTU ·Jul 2025

In Silicon Valley if someone said let's start a business the response would be why not. And here if you say let's start a business someone would say why? Why do you think I'm capable of doing that?…

Brad Smith ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer INTU ·Jul 2025

We recognize that the world is dealing with what we call the 80% reality. That's eight out of 10 high school graduates today don't want to work for a company. They want to start a company. The second…

Brad Smith ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer INTU ·Jul 2025

I had this saying at American Express which I really do believe, we want to become the company that will put us out of business and that to have a mentality of, you know, a challenger type of…

Kenneth Chenault ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer AXP ·Jun 2025

I isolated the ultimate indicator, leading indicator of a strong customer relationship was increase in average spend and people would show me, look, you know, we have customer improvements here and…

Kenneth Chenault ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer AXP ·Jun 2025

My position on brands is brands are a cluster of values, rational, so you got to have a rational value proposition, but the emotional connection, when you can connect the rational and the emotional,…

Kenneth Chenault ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer AXP ·Jun 2025

Most of our competitors would not sustainably invest in customer service because they just didn't get it and they looked at it, you know, it was a capability where they would periodically cut when…

Kenneth Chenault ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer AXP ·Jun 2025

I believe American Express is a service platform and we deliver service through a range of form factors and that's one of the reasons why I think American Express has been able to adapt because of…

Kenneth Chenault ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer AXP ·Jun 2025

In the world of AI the winners are going to be the ones that are digitally enabled and have lots of data and I think India has the conditions to really be a winner in AI indigenously and we'll see…

Francisco D'souza ·Former Chief Executive Officer CTSH ·Jan 2025

The GCCs in India to me are a representation of fundamental Innovation and Company specific intellectual property being developed in India for companies on a global stage. So I think that's really…

Francisco D'souza ·Former Chief Executive Officer CTSH ·Jan 2025

The question about Workforce has to start within each country with a discussion and a debate about how you develop the local Workforce... having said that, over 27 years that I've been in the…

Francisco D'souza ·Former Chief Executive Officer CTSH ·Jan 2025

The moment has come now where Services businesses have to get more and more IP intensive. The old model of providing just people and very knowledgeable capable people without some form of software or…

Francisco D'souza ·Former Chief Executive Officer CTSH ·Jan 2025

I was as nervous and as rattled as anyone, but I didn't have the luxury of being able to perform that way. You know, I think of an analogy, you know, you're on an airplane and the flight attendant,…

Lloyd Blankfein ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer GS ·May 2026

We marked our securities our balance sheet to mark to market very rigorously very religiously very often and so other people didn't. We would mark to market AAA securities securities that were always…

Lloyd Blankfein ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer GS ·May 2026

I realized that as you go up and you're in a position of influence or the ability to help people, you have to have a certain kind of reserve because you can't allow yourself to be flattered in that…

Lloyd Blankfein ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer GS ·May 2026

An AI data center is 8 to 12 times more expensive to build just the infrastructure. Now let's start adding H100s, by some people's estimates you're talking 49 million dollars a megawatt when you're…

Frederick Thiel ·Chief Executive Officer & Executive Chairman MATV ·Dec 2023