Executive Quotes
378 quotes by 303 authors
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As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always…
— Jim Gaffigan
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The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
— Edward Gibbon
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.
— Ann Coulter
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My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can…
— Sloane Crosley
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Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.
— Bobby Darin
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We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions…
— Alan Dershowitz
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The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
— Sam Ervin
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I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.
— Marty Feldman
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
— B. C. Forbes
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I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most…
— Gerald R. Ford
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Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing…
— Steve Harvey
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Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic…
— Herbert Hoover
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and…
— Naveen Jain
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No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
— Thomas Jefferson
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There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as…
— Barbara Jordan
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A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a…
— Marcy Kaptur
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Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only…
— Madeleine M. Kunin
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The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization and it requires the requisite skills to understand…
— Joe Lhota
Who Wrote These Executive Quotes
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