Executives Quotes

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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
I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard you would become… — Howard Zinn
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
Corporations are legal fictions created by the State to shield executives from liabilityâ€¦ Itâ€™s like if I had a little hand-puppet, and I went to… — Stefan Molyneux
Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for… — Peter Drucker
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
This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping the child to… — Marilyn Monroe
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
We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make… — Dan Ariely
Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service… — Felix Rohatyn
If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives? — Eric Idle
The single most remarkable (and revealing) fact of the Obama presidency may very well be the lack of a single prosecution of Wall Street executives… — Glenn Greenwald
Not only do the majority of senior women executives have sports in their background, they recognize that the behaviors and techniques learned through sports are… — Beth Brooke
If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions. — P.J. O'Rourke
With a global society hungry for luxury, distribution and supply chains are now as important for executives as a hands-on feel for products. — Suzy Menkes
I remember when I did my Enron film, my executive producers at the time felt very strongly that I should mock the Enron executives more… — Alex Gibney
Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned… — John Hagel III
With so much money invested in their most promising projects, Hollywood executives will understandably do everything in their power to make their products a success… — Anita Elberse

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