quotes about Executives
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Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.
-- Babyface -
Executives are constrained not by resources, but by their imagination.
-- C. K. PrahaladSource : "Harvard Business Review" Magazine, April 2010.
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I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.
-- Connie Chung -
A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.
-- Eli BroadSource : Eli Broad (2012). “The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking”, p.43, John Wiley & Sons
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If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
-- Eric Idle -
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
-- Eric Sevareid -
You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.
-- Eric Thomas -
If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.
-- Gus Van Sant -
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All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.
-- James BurghSource : James Burgh (1775). “Political Disquisitions: Or, An Inquiry Into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses. Illustrated By, and Established Upon Facts and Remarks, Extracted from a Variety of Authors, Ancient and Modern...”, p.3
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An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
-- John Henry Patterson -
The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.
-- Karl Kraus -
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I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.
-- Marlee Matlin -
Many of my executives have worked with me since the beginning. I can be fair and decisive and encouraging as well as demanding.
-- Martha Stewart -
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 get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me.
-- Ornette Coleman -
An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.
-- Peter Drucker -
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No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.
-- Peter Drucker -
Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.
-- Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr. -
I came to understand that the words executive and corporate never belong next to the word chef.
-- Thomas Keller -
The only thing I find executives down about is the regulatory environment.
-- Ken Moelis -
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I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives.
-- Martin Schulz -
Behind every piece of bad content is an executive who asked for it.
-- Michael Brenner -
When you are an executive, my friends, that is not leadership.
-- Shirley Franklin -
European affairs are no longer reserved for the executive.
-- Udo Di Fabio -
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Either an executive can do his job or he can't.
-- Robert Heller -
... a meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive.
-- John Leo