Executives Quotes · Page 6

When you are an executive, my friends, that is not leadership.

— Shirley Franklin

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

— Gus Van Sant

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

— Robert Frost

An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right

— Elbert Hubbard

Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding.

— Maude Meagher

The first thing [Donald Trump] is going to do is roll back the fiat executive orders that were unconstitutional.

— Mary Matalin

“Do you think the company senior executives at corporate headquarters want you to fail?”

— Jocko Willink

I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.

— L.A. Reid

He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were…

— Major Owens

It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed…

— Jonathan Alter

I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may…

— Dean Acheson

Things get better when Joy hears about a televised way to sell products and makes a connection with QVC. She convinces an…

— Kenneth Turan

I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't…

— Carol Leifer

The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or…

— Ricardo Semler

I know that I'm freer as a hip-hopper than as an executive. Even as a black man, I enjoy more freedom as…

— KRS-One

The best leaders are apt to be found among those executives who have a strong component of unorthodoxy in their character. Instead…

— David Ogilvy

Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this…

— Ada Lovelace

During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive…

— Myrtle Reed

Speech within the kingdom of Amazonia - run by its sovereign Jeff Bezos and his board of directors with help from the…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Yet when the hour of decision arrives, it turns out that many conservatives care as little as ever about administrative skill and…

— David Frum

So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had…

— Rupert Sanders

It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That…

— Henry Rosovsky

When people abuse these freedoms to enrich themselves at the expense of others, then the public will demand the government to step…

— Ken Blackwell

Do too many executives still indulge in the short-sighted habit of issuing orders without taking the slightest pains to explain to those…

— B. C. Forbes

“Creating a new business from scratch is hard, but executives of incumbents have the dual challenge of creating new businesses while simultaneously…

— Scott D. Anthony

Now that Mr. Trump is the President-elect: If he chooses, he can, by executive order, repeal most of what President Barack Obama…

— Louis Farrakhan

The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much…

— Frank Chodorov

From a business perspective, the question related to cities and sustainability is clear and compelling: can you have a healthy company in…

— Joel Makower

I wanted to get more serialized. I had this idea for an event that would click onto everybody's mortality. I said, "I…

— Denis Leary

To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art…

— Claude Bernard

Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit…

— Amy Holden Jones

The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.

— Roger Sherman

In areas where they are simply incompetent, smart executives don’t make decisions or take actions. They delegate.

— Peter Drucker

It's important to use executive orders. Every president since Washington has.

— Tim Kaine

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.

— Marissa Mayer

It's not often that you get a director, singing the praises of his executives.

— Nick Willing

We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business.

— Fred L. Turner

I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

“In some instances, I’ve found that executives don’t even use their own products.”

— Martin Lindstrom