Executives Quotes

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All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to keep costs, including… — Kevin O'Leary
I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use… — David Ogilvy
Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined… — Christine Pelosi
I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier. — James Cash Penney
My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people. — James Cash Penney
Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine. — James Cash Penney
Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose… — John Podhoretz
A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service. — Ryan Reynolds
Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive. — John D. Rockefeller
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from… — Theodore Roosevelt
Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest… — Jonathan Sacks
If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all. — Gus Van Sant
Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For scientists,… — Stacy Schiff
Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily… — James Surowiecki
In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster. — James Surowiecki
In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the… — James Surowiecki
The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour. — Gloria Swanson
In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market - the executives… — Matt Taibbi
Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged… — Helen Thomas

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