Executives Quotes
509 quotes by 405 authors
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Executive: a man who makes quick decisions and is sometimes right.
— Kin Hubbard
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Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I don't how anybody taller than 6-4 can sit in those seats. And the airline executives don't give a damn 'cause they never walk back…
— Charles Barkley
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Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest…
— Thomas Jefferson
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To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art of establishing experimental…
— Claude Bernard
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I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Growing numbers of corporate executives are aware of the inextricable link between the well being of our families and the well-being of our nation. Nowhere…
— Arnold Hiatt
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To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.
— John Milius
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Lions cannot afford to hunt mice because they literally will starve to death, even if they catch them. Lions and all large carnivores have to…
— Newt Gingrich
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Where would we in Washington and we in America be without the Center? We would know much less about the workings of our Congress, and…
— Seymour Hersh
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The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either partly wrong or…
— Wendell Berry
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What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.
— Michio Kaku
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Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of regulating climate, as…
— Harrison Schmitt
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...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.
— George Monbiot
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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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The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I'd still say that visiting the stores and listening to our folks was one of the most valuable uses of my time as an executive.…
— Sam Walton
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Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may…
— Immanuel Kant
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As the funds you will expend have come from many places in the world, so let there be no territorial, religious, or color restrictions on…
— Conrad Hilton
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