Executive Quotes

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Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and… — Kurt Vonnegut
Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great… — Elizabeth Gilbert
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of… — Aldous Huxley
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or… — James Madison
The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the… — Winston Churchill
They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant from… — Tom Wolfe
As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him. — Rex Stout
We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for weekends, for vacations,… — Wendell Berry
Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from… — Michael Palin
Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population;… — Judith Butler
An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people. — Jack Welch
No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective. — Peter Drucker
The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole… — Peter Drucker
In short, it's a great economy if you're a high-level corporate executive or someone who owns a lot of stock. For most other Americans, economic… — Paul Krugman
Europe has shown how government can be organised in a network. Its institutions both compete and co-operate and include a directly elected parliament that does… — Geoff Mulgan
There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence community - the… — Michael Hayden
If I can impact an executive and his or her team, I can help to change the culture of an organization. — Srikumar Rao
Certainly businesses the world over are facing greater competitive pressure than ever before, and this leads to executive stress which, in turn, tends to bring… — Srikumar Rao
Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected. — Charles Krauthammer
Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the board has inappropriately chosen to silence… — George Zimmer

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