Executives Quotes

Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive.

— Brian Tracy

The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

— Michael Parenti

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.

— Karl Marx

War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement

— James Madison

No agency is better than its account executives.

— Samuel Goldwyn

My parents weren't actors or studio executives.

— Dwayne Johnson

In my experience, good executives don't make mistakes.

— Ray Kroc

I didn't listen to executives.

— Howard Stern

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

— Gloria Swanson

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

— Peter Drucker

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

— Edward F. Hennessey

A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

— James Madison

Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.

— Aloe Blacc

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

— Letitia Baldrige

If you help create the profits, you should be able to share in them, not just the executives at the top.

— Hillary Clinton

In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

— Lincoln Chafee

I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I…

— Nia Vardalos

The life expectancy in Hong Kong is among the highest in the world. You can come to only one conclusion: we have…

— Donald Tsang

...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and…

— George Monbiot

This country, of course, needs fundamental reform of our financial regulatory system, as I, and many other financial institution executives, have publicly…

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it…

— Robert E. Lee

Governor Romney has been a great success in business. He has been a great success as executive, as governor of Massachusetts. I…

— Chris Christie

EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time…

— Ambrose Bierce

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be…

— Mark Cuban

I just released an op-ed in the "Washington Post" that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D.,…

— Al Sharpton

What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't…

— Florynce Kennedy

Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay…

— Steven Rattner

Pilot season can be maddening. You're basically putting yourself and your talent out there to be scrutinized several times a day for…

— Reid Scott

I used to scream at everybody at the beginning of my career. I'd get really emotional. I'd project all my issues about…

— Judd Apatow

Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example. This means getting…

— Vivek Wadhwa

A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory.…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this…

— Thomas Jefferson

Teamwork remains a sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped because it is hard to measure (teamwork impacts the outcome of…

— Patrick Lencioni

I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was "too juvenile." The second one was,they give…

— Charles Busch

We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all…

— Thomas Jefferson

For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more…

— Malcolm Forbes

Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by…

— Mark Crispin Miller

There are estimates that we daily walked for 10 - 20 kilometers for hundreds of thousands of years. The world's best problem…

— John Medina

In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied;…

— James Madison

Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and…

— Steven Morrissey