Executives Quotes · Page 3

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

My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

— Steve Jobs

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

— Pat Riley

Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.

— Steve Largent

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

— Reid Hoffman

A lot of deals are done or not done because chief executives are not fully aligned to shareholders.

— Ivan Glasenberg

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

— Tim Kaine

The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be…

— Fred Allen

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a…

— Peter Drucker

The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a…

— Vikas Swarup

Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.

— Margaret Heffernan

But women are coming into Wall Street in large numbers — and they still are not making partner and are not getting…

— Muriel Siebert

I learned I'm not a good executive. I'm an entrepreneur, and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do…

— Jerry Weintraub

I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no…

— Joss Whedon

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research,…

— David Ogilvy

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

Your job as an executive is to edit, not write. It's OK to write once in a while but if you do…

— Jack Dorsey

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

— Newt Gingrich

I'm no good at anything but comedy, which I think I'm good at. I'm absolutely no good at networking; I'm terrible at…

— Norm MacDonald

It is always amazing to see how wide a spectrum of results can be obtained from replicating an identical negotiation with different…

— Howard Raiffa

To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of…

— John C. Calhoun

Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens…

— David Mamet

Los Angeles people are incapable of passively mainlining TV and movies. Here you have to read who produced or directed every episode,…

— Cynthia Heimel

Although the great frustration about this [role] is the fact that there's one thing Maigret never does, and that's drive. He's always…

— Rowan Atkinson

At this moment in history, millions of 'working dads' are desiring to do what they do not feel they have the right…

— Warren Farrell

The gag rule must be eliminated, and it's just the gag rule, we're not talking now even about funding abortion. We're talking…

— Eleanor Smeal

“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

Talking things over has its place in an organization [but] so-called conferences are being grossly overdone. One executive stops at the desk…

— B. C. Forbes

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

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

— Roger Sherman

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

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

— Fred L. Turner

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

— Nick Willing

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

— Mary Matalin

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