Executives Quotes · Page 6

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— Eric Sevareid

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

— Marlee Matlin

I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.

— Julie Taymor

The chief ability of an executive should be his ability to recognize ability.

— Evan Esar

Donald Trump is gonna immediately start canceling some executive orders and repealing Obamacare.

— Rush Limbaugh

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.

— Richard Jefferson

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

— Don Bluth

I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go…

— Bill Gates

An executive might have a very strong intuition that a given product has promise, without considering the probability that a rival is…

— Daniel Kahneman

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is…

— Griffin Dunne

I’ve come to realize that being a mother makes me a better executive, because motherhood forces prioritization. Being a mom gives you…

— Marissa Mayer

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path…

— Cyndi Lauper

Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress

— Jay Rockefeller

We see President [Donald] Trump actually reclaiming the proper role of the executive, and undoing a lot of damage that was done…

— Paul Ryan

To me, Los Angeles and California and executive power are about big, open warehouse buildings. Tech companies are buying oversized buildings, because…

— James Pearse Connelly

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old),…

— Martin Jacques

The Carlyle Group is the most politically connected investment firm in the world. The company has mastered the art of influence peddling…

— William Hartung

The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an…

— Martha Plimpton

Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive…

— David Harsanyi

I don't pretend to be an expert on intellectual property law, but I do know one thing. If a music industry executive…

— Janis Ian

Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient…

— James Madison

And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves…

— Abraham Lincoln

The details of the personal expenses that executives put on the company tab often are not known because loopholes in federal disclosure…

— Alex Berenson

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a…

— Ricardo Sanchez

I was selling a piece of my art on eBay from The Escapist, which was an adaptation of The Adventures of Kavalier…

— Eric Wight

For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last…

— L. Neil Smith

Over the last 40 years, I have built MW into a multi-billion dollar company with amazing employees and loyal customers who value…

— George Zimmer

Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Meyer have already accomplished more than most. I think the sky is the limit for them professionally. If…

— Willow Bay

I am a patriot. I have always sought to serve my country, in theory a Republic. Learning that secrecy was evil rather…

— Robert David Steele

Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of…

— Harrison Schmitt

If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of…

— Walter Cronkite

I have got five minutes, some whip-its, and the key to the executive bathroom.

— Monica Denise Brown

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

— Anonymous

In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.

— Alex Berenson

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

— James J. Hill

Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.

— Eric Idle

Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.

— Michael Wilbon

Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media.

— Mark Cuban

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.

— P. Chidambaram