Chief Executives Quotes
31 quotes by 30 authors
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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
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Goldman Sachs was fundamentally responsible for the crash of 2008, but by that time its former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Henry 'Hank' Paulson, had…
— David Icke
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...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing them of actively…
— James Hansen
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The New Capitalism (arising from the global economic downturn)...those running our biggest commercial businesses will have to be more visible. They'll have to manifest a…
— Robert Peston
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I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may be, is particularly…
— Dean Acheson
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[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably…
— Terry Eagleton
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The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem…
— Michael O'Leary
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At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.
— Malcolm Forbes
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It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation…
— Herbert Hoover
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I'm here with Howard Millar and Michael Cawley, our two deputy chief executives. But they're presently making love in the gentleman's toilets, such is their…
— Michael O'Leary
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Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.
— Richard Jefferson
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
— T. Boone Pickens
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Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.
— Steve Largent
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Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in upon us, he…
— John F. Kennedy
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My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out…
— Henry Mintzberg
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A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would…
— David Limbaugh
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Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows…
— Pete Rozelle
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I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.
— Stuart Rose
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I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.
— Jane Byrne
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Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies…
— J. Irwin Miller
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