Executives Quotes
509 quotes by 405 authors
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Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.
— Jacob Lew
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The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy…
— Martha Plimpton
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From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits,…
— Jimmy Reid
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What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of…
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
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In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view,…
— Jeff Raikes
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I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.
— L.A. Reid
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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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Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top…
— Steven Rattner
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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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So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head…
— Rupert Sanders
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I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming…
— Bruno Tonioli
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Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those…
— Jim Talent
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You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must…
— Harold Geneen
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When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or…
— Thomas Lennon
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My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low…
— Jack Markell
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The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy,…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.
— Stephen Colbert
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I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would…
— Ornette Coleman
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Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates…
— David Riesman
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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.
— T. Boone Pickens
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