
There’s no shortage of CEOs dispensing wisdom at a lectern these days. But according to Brian Niccol, the 50-year-old chief executive and board chairman of Chipotle Mexican Grill, new grads don’t need to grasp much beyond the basics.
Niccol delivered the commencement speech earlier this month at Miami University in Ohio, where he graduated in 1996. His bottom line to graduates, he explained in a Wednesday interview with Fortune, was “just a couple of simple things.”