If they'd picked some older quote from someone else saying similar, someone still would complain that the idea predates them, right back to Socrates.

I don't see it claiming it's some deep novel insight, it's just someone prominent who said something recently that's salient to the point.

I may just being nitpicky here. With such a commonly understood, and old, concept it doesn't need ant attribution. Name dropping a random CEO just feels like a cheap addition to get eyes on an article.

I suppose it kind of is, or an 'appeal to authority', I just don't see that as necessarily bad, it's just like 'don't take my word for it, someone you might actually have heard of or in an important position said blah'.

Proper journalists and newspapers spend plenty of time quoting politicians and senior employees making obvious or previously said remarks too.

Yeah that's totally fair. I'm fine chalking this one up to me being too picky on a random Sunday night.

If a successful CEO says it, it is definitely insightful.