Executives Quotes

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

— George W. Bush

Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.

— Herbert Hoover

Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives.

— Scott Walker

Executives are constrained not by resources, but by their imagination.

— C. K. Prahalad

Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.

— James J. Hill

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

— Eric Sevareid

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail.

— John C. Maxwell

There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

— Pat Riley

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

— Letitia Baldrige

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on…

— Noam Chomsky

Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are…

— Diablo Cody

There was a general sense that if you were going to get close enough to a CBS executive to tweak his nose,…

— Howard Hesseman

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

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

— Gloria Swanson

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

— Aloe Blacc

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

— Peter Drucker

This is also why it is wrong to treat God as a grand employment agency, a celestial executive searcher to find perfect…

— Os Guinness

I don't how anybody taller than 6-4 can sit in those seats. And the airline executives don't give a damn 'cause they…

— Charles Barkley

I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific…

— John C. Maxwell

The really cool challenge of '24' was learning on camera how to be a dramatic actress. The biggest difficulty was the industry…

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

The president and the executive branch are always going to have greater latitude and greater authority when it comes to protecting America…

— Barack Obama

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

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

I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract…

— Abraham Lincoln

Yes, the Commission wants to increase its powers, Yes, it is a non-elected body and I do not want the Commission to…

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— Malcolm Forbes

America is an enormous country with enormous resources. The basic American spirit creates the Wright Brothers and Henry Ford and Bill Gates…

— Newt Gingrich

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

— John Medina

Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening…

— Harlan Cleveland

“Ideally, most of the top executives of a company should be on Foundational tours.”

— Reid Hoffman

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

— Tim Kaine

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

— L.A. Reid

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

— Martin Lindstrom

No agency is better than its account executives.

— Samuel Goldwyn

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

— Elbert Hubbard

My parents weren't actors or studio executives.

— Dwayne Johnson

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

— Shirley Franklin