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The Top 10 CEOs – Are You On This List?

how to find customers for your businessYou may have heard, I’m in Hawaii. Not in the mood to be too serious.

So I thought it was time to share my Top Ten Best…and Worst…FICTIONAL CEOs Ever. We can learn something from them—even if it’s not pretty!

And by the way, you’re not on this list!

  • Miranda Priestly
    Editor in Chief, Runway Magazine
    The Devil Wears Prada
    “Details of your incompetence do not interest me”
  • Ari Gold
    CEO, Miller Gold Talent Agency
    Entourage
    “Well, tell the school that when they schedule a parent teach conference at 2:30pm on a weekday, that’s just their way of saying we don’t care about Daddy.”
  • Cosmo G. Spacely
    CEO, Spacely Sprockets
    The Jetsons
    “No hurry…any time will be fine within the next five minutes.”
  • Jack Donaghy
    Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming for General Electric
    30 Rock
    “Lemon, this is part of our problem. I give you a simple managerial suggestion in a professional context, and I get back the second half of a Judy Blume novel.”
  • Michael Scott
    Dunder Mifflin/Sabre
    The Office
    “Would I rather be feared than loved? Um, easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”
  • J.R. Ewing
    Ewing Oil
    Dallas
    “Like my Daddy says, if you can’t get in the front door just go around to the back.”
  • Gordon Gekko
    Investment Banker
    Wall Street
    “The point, ladies and gentlemen, is that greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”
  • Charles Foster Kane
    Editor, The New York Inquirer
    Citizen Kane
    “If the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough.”
  • Roger Sterling, Jr
    Partner, Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency
    Mad Men
    “I wanna see what you look like with your tail between your legs.”
  • Montgomery Burns
    Springfield Nuclear Power Plant
    The Simpsons
    “If it’s a crime to love one’s country, then I’m guilty. If it’s a crime to steal a trillion dollars from our government and hand it over to communist Cuba, then I’m guilty of that, too. And if it’s a crime to bribe a jury, then so help me, I’ll soon be guilty of that.”

Like these CEOs, business is made up. Make up a cool one and lead it well!

Go forth and do great things,

Martha Hanlon and Chris Williams

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