Executives Quotes
509 quotes by 405 authors
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The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership - it is practicing their understanding of leadership.
— Marshall Goldsmith
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A petition to have Justin Bieber deported got over 100,000 signatures, which means the White House now has to legally rule on it. So finally…
— Jay Leno
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A successful executive is one that solves bigger problems than he/she creates.
— David Allen
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Decision making is the specific executive task.
— Peter Drucker
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If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have…
— Michael Martin Hammer
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The extraordinary power of influence is now within everyone's reach. Recent graduates, executive assistants, project managers, and business leaders can all benefit from Monarth's simple…
— Marshall Goldsmith
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In areas where they are simply incompetent, smart executives don’t make decisions or take actions. They delegate.
— Peter Drucker
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I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and…
— Barack Obama
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I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or infinitely leisured. I want our readers to be…
— Anna Wintour
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Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
— Eric Sevareid
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Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion…
— Alan Turing
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Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.
— Richard Jefferson
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Yes, the Commission wants to increase its powers, Yes, it is a non-elected body and I do not want the Commission to increase its powers…
— Margaret Thatcher
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...The asbestos industry...has for decades successfully suppressed and manipulated information on the carcinogenicity and other hazards of asbestos. Involved in this conspiracy network were senior…
— Samuel Epstein
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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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The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and…
— Craig McCracken
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While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven…
— Jerry B. Jenkins
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A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5…
— Fred Allen
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RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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