Chairman Quotes:

I'm the Chairman Emeritus, and according to my contract I am supposed to devote 10% of my time to working for Marvel... and the rest of my time, I can do anything that I wish.

- Stan Lee

source: Source: www.ign.com

topic: Wish, Contracts, Chairman

In my life mission is everything.. Even if i was a municipal chairman, I would have worked as hard as a CM

- Narendra Modi

topic: Powerful, Missions, Chairman

Chairmen Meow deserves me every effort.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Effort, Chairman, Chairman Meow

We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are. We must esteem them as teachers, learning from them respectfully and conscientiously. We must not pretend to know when we do not know.

- Mao Zedong

source: Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.310, China Books

topic: Teacher, Autumn, Matter, Chairman, British Parliament

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

- Mao Zedong

topic: Military, Gun, Political, Military Power, Political Power

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

- Mao Zedong

source: Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.13, Lulu.com

topic: Party, Writing, Dinner, Courteous, Insurrection

Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive

- Ratan Tata

topic: Mean, Important, Lines, Chairman, Such Is Life

The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.

- Aldo Gucci

topic: Inspiring, Memories, Business, Poor Quality, Gucci

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

- Sam Walton

source: "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Business, Work, Customer Experience, Inspirational Customer Service

You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.

- Michael Jordan

source: Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

topic: Basketball, Practice, Eight, Motivational Basketball, Chairman

The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.

- Mao Zedong

source: "Qinyuanchun (Snow)". Poem by Mao Zedong, 1945.

topic: Real, Hero, Past, Chairman, Real Heroes

There are advantages to being the chairman. One of my favorite perks was picking out an issue and doing what I called a "deep dive." It's spotting a challenge where you think you can make a difference one that looks like it would be fun and then throwing the weight of your position behind it. Some might justifiably call it "meddling." I've often done this just about everywhere in the company.

- Jack Welch

topic: Fun, Thinking, Differences, Meddling, Chairman

I will have to make tactical decisions, technical decisions and emotional decisions. This time it was a tactical one.

- Tony Adams

topic: Soccer, Football, Emotional, Chairman, Tactical

If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States.

- Mao Zedong

source: "Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)" by Mao Zedong, Ch. 6, 1964.

topic: War, Fate, People, Chairman

Nine months of misery.

- Steve Coppell

topic: Soccer, Football, Nine, Chairman, Nine Months

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

- Esther Dyson

topic: Responsibility, Liberty, Turns, Civil Liberties, Chairman

The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.

- Gavyn Davies

source: "Gavyn Davies: role of BBC chairman 'devalued'" by Ben Dowell, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2011.

topic: Running, Cheerleading, Cheerleader, Chairman

I'm bored, I'm the chairman of the board.

- Iggy Pop

topic: Work, Bored, Boards, Chairman

One of the reserves came up to me and said 'I'm finding it a bit hard, it's the first time I've ever been dropped'. So I told him to do what Nick Faldo does and work at his game. Next thing I know he's doing exactly what Faldo does, he's taken up golf.

- Ron Atkinson

topic: Soccer, Football, Taken, Chairman

The last time I was charged by the FA they had a murder lawyer in against me, so it's going to be a hard case to win.

- Roy Keane

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Chairman

You, your grandmother, the chairman----YOU'RE ALL ABUNCH OF FRIGGIN' IDIOTS!!!" ~Haruhi

- Bisco Hatori

topic: Grandmother, Idiot, Your Grandmother, Chairman

As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.

- Lee Haney

topic: Sports, Father, Past, Chairman, Proud Father

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.

- Gordon Strachan

topic: Soccer, Football, Asking, Chairman

I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.

- Paul Gascoigne

topic: Team, Player, Decision, Chairman

That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on.

- John Lambie

topic: Soccer, Get Him Back, Chairman, Funny Football, Hilarious Sports

I am impressed by the progress the RNC has made in the last year to engage Latino communities across the country. I look forward to continue working alongside Chairman Priebus and Co-Chair Day to ensure that the party's year-round engagement effort continues to grow and reach new Latino neighborhoods.

- Luis Fortuno

topic: Country, Party, Opportunity, Chairman

As a Chinese American legislator, I applaud the RNC's Growth and Opportunity Project. Engaging Asian American and Pacific Islander communities about Republican principles is a worthwhile effort. I thank Chairman Priebus and Co-Chairman Day for making this a priority. We need to ensure our message of growth and opportunity is being heard in all communities throughout this nation, and I am proud to be a part of this effort.

- Kimberly Yee

topic: Opportunity, Effort, Community, Asian American, Chairman

The Growth and Opportunity Project is the most successful reexamination of a national party in modern times. Te disciplined focus of Chairman Reince Priebus has turned its suggestions into realities that are changing the political setting of elections. No one should underestimate the boldness of these changes and the courage they took.

- Newt Gingrich

topic: Party, Successful, Opportunity, Modern Times, Chairman

I always took my role as a leader, and certainly chairman and CEO of a major company very seriously as to our employees and trying to create opportunities for them and create opportunities where they could even, as I said many times, could realize their God-given potential and maybe realize more potential than even they realize they had.

- Kenneth Lay

topic: Opportunity, Leader, Trying, Chairman

Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee.

- Ashley Montagu

topic: Father, May, Littles, Chairman

Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what's behind it, and what it really means.

- Lester Bangs

topic: Mean, Thinking, Knowing, Chairman, Chairman Mao

But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance. If you do, the rest falls into place. You have to have good assistants, and a lot of things, but first you have to have the chairman of the board.

- Bear Bryant

topic: Dog, Mistake, Fall, Chairman

Unless the chairman decides to sack me, I won't be quitting.

- Carlton Palmer

topic: Football, Quitting, Chairman

Some people say 'what would happen if we had a Communist Chancellor of the Exchequer?' I would ask in reply, 'what would happen if he had a lot of Fascist or Mosleyite bank chairmen?' In that event it might be thought disadvantageous to have publicity.

- Hugh Dalton

topic: People, Publicity, Events, Chairman

Goldman Sachs was fundamentally responsible for the crash of 2008, but by that time its former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Henry 'Hank' Paulson, had been installed as US Treasury Secretary to begin the bank bail out policy, with enormous benefit to Goldman Sachs, in the closing weeks of the Bush administration. Goldman Sachs was also instrumental in the collapse of the economy in Greece that started the 'euro panic' that later engulfed Ireland.

- David Icke

topic: Bail, Benefits, Panic, Chief Executives, Chairman

I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.

- Arsene Wenger

topic: Soccer, Football, Cutting, Ponytails, Chairman

I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.

- Robyn Hitchcock

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Book, Mao, Structure, Chairman, Chairman Mao

Mr. Chairman, when the Fed was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world system was being set up here... and that this country was to supply the financial power to an international superstate.

- Louis Thomas McFadden

topic: Country, People, United States, Chairman

With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

- Ashleigh Brilliant

topic: Self, World, Firsts, Chairman, Deference

Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony.

- John McCain

topic: Mosquitoes, Nudists, Committees, Chairman

What reason is there for believing that a high death rate, in itself, is undesirable? To my knowledge none whatever. The plain fact is that, if it be suitably selective, it is extremely salubrious. Suppose it could be so arranged that it ran to 100% a year among politicians, executive secretaries, drive chairmen, and the homicidally insane? What rational man would object?

- H. L. Mencken

source: H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.344, Vintage

topic: Believe, Men, Years, Chairman

It's said the FA chairman (Keith Wiseman) would travel 200 miles to open a biscuit tin. Why?

- Ken Bates

topic: Tin, Keith, Biscuits, Chairman

A person at an eminent position does not need money. A chairman of a big company or something like that, I can’t buy him and the country does not have enough money to ‘buy’ him.

- Arnon Milchan

source: "The spy turned big-shot Hollywood producer- read the translated interview with Arnon Milchan!". Interview with Ilana Dayan, jewishjournal.com. December 10, 2013.

topic: Need Money, Chairman, Big Companies

We'd like to apologise to the fans, the chairman, the staff and everyone connected to Newcastle

- Lee Bowyer

topic: Fighting, Fans, Staff, Newcastle, Chairman

I don't like champagne, I don't smoke cigars, I haven't any real jewellery at all, apart from the 8 pieces of gold I picked up at Anfield, the most important relationship at a football club is not between the manager and the chairman, but the players and the fans.

- John Toshack

topic: Football, Real, Player, Chairman, Jewellery

It should be pointed out that some of the things done after the arrest of the Gang of Four were inconsistent with Chairman Mao's wishes, for instance, the construction of the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall. He had proposed in the fifties that we should all be cremated when we died and that only our ashes be kept, that no remains should be preserved and no tombs built.

- Deng Xiaoping

source: Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

topic: Memorial, Wish, Ashes, Chairman, Chairman Mao

You don't look for jobs. You don't phone up 10 clubs and say, Here I am. You are offered the job. I was in Benfica many years ago. I was leaving the training ground and I had a car after me. It went on for 10 minutes. Anyhow, he stopped and I stopped and he said, I'm from the Italian embassy. Ah yes, and what do you want? I want your phone number because Roma wants you as a manager next season. Three months later I was sitting on the bench in Roma. I don't think the rest of working society works like football.

- Sven-Goran Eriksson

topic: Soccer, Football, Jobs, Chairman, Phone Numbers

When I was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I would still have junior officers brief me. Usually these people knew more about the subject we were discussing than I did. I had to make sure that they felt confident enough to tell me everything they believed.

- Colin Powell

source: Source: www.egonzehnder.com

topic: People, Juniors, Joints, Chairman, Chief Of Staff

Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'.

- John McCain

source: John McCain, Mark Salter (2004). “Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

topic: Black, Remember, Mao, Chairman, Chairman Mao

By the time I stepped down as Xerox's CEO in 2009 - and as chairman in January 2010 - Xerox had become the vibrant, profitable and revitalized company that it still is today. What made the difference was a strong turnaround plan, dedicated people and a firm commitment from company leaders.

- Anne M. Mulcahy

topic: Strong, Commitment, Differences, Xerox, Chairman

There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime.

- Condoleezza Rice

topic: Doubt, United States, Helping, Chairman

In the final analysis, the general principle for our economic development in China is still that formulated by Chairman Mao, that is, to rely mainly on our own efforts with external assistance subsidiary.

- Deng Xiaoping

source: Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

topic: Effort, Principles, Finals, Chairman, Chairman Mao