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If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. -- Howard Zinn
Executives are constrained not by resources, but by their imagination. -- C. K. Prahalad
Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes. -- Malcolm Forbes
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs. -- Peter Drucker
Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things. -- Akio Morita
Executives don't burn out and leave when they feel deep satisfaction. They don't create the human detritus that disgruntled managers do. -- Srikumar Rao
Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it. -- Eric Idle
Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media. -- Mark Cuban
Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions. -- Peter Drucker
Executives must place a priority on wellbeing if they want to attract the right people, keep their best people, and drive their company's financial performance. -- Tom Rath
Nobody is forcing anybody who is uncomfortable with the terms of service to use Facebook. Executives point out that Internet users have choices on the Web. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Executives need to understand the economic benefits of trust dividend, especially when the behavior is real, not artificially or superficially created as PR to manipulate trust. -- Stephen Covey
Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for socially irresponsible behavior. -- Simon Mainwaring
Executives and studios really like to have control over their product. They panic or they're not secure enough to trust in the powers of really amazing improv people. -- Harland Williams
Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
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 task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder. -- John Hagel III
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 task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder. -- John Hagel III
It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to an entertainment bureau. No occasion is too trivial for its promoters to invite them to attend and deliver an address. -- Calvin Coolidge
I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second. -- Steven Wright
Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive. -- John D. Rockefeller
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws. -- Garet Garrett
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. -- Daniel Webster
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well. -- George W. Bush
Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough. -- Babyface
An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides. -- John Henry Patterson
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive. -- B. C. Forbes
For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners. -- Letitia Baldrige
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. -- Robert Frost
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold. -- Garet Garrett
I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician. -- Marty Feldman
The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour. -- Gloria Swanson
I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy. -- Joseph Heller
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. -- Thomas Jefferson
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment. -- Sinclair Lewis
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. -- James Madison
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference. -- Fred Allen
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. -- Scott Adams
The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong! -- Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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
Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start. -- Bobby Darin
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 better decisions. -- Dan Ariely
Ive been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use our constitutional responsibilities to the fullest. -- John Engler
I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think. -- Leo Burnett
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Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright? -- Morgan Freeman
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 meddling with them while they do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves. -- Herbert Hoover
Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure. -- John C. Maxwell
The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc. -- C. Wright Mills
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work. -- Harold S. Geneen
Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take. -- Barney Frank
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 it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination. -- David Ogilvy
It is good to see women doctors and lawyers and executives. I can visualize a woman president. If I were British, I would have supported Margaret Thatcher. But no benefit to anyone can come from women serving in combat. -- Jim Webb
Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies. -- Vivek Wadhwa
Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example. This means getting rid of the bad apples and declining opportunities that bring instant wealth at the cost of selling one's soul. -- Vivek Wadhwa
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 bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls. -- James Surowiecki
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. -- Walt Whitman
Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw. -- Craig McCracken
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 that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives. -- Felix Rohatyn
I've got corporate executives, my bosses... this is true... who will text message me... and say, 'Hey a, heard you had chemotherapy today, want me to stop by and pick you up something to eat and bring it to you?' Whose boss does that? My bosses do that. -- Stuart Scott
But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time. -- Kanye West
Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not. -- Mark Helprin
For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into God's story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played. -- Miroslav Volf
I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whether they're songwriters, producers, engineers or executives, and no matter what they look like, with short hair, suits or whatever. I feel like my generation of metal kids really tends to populate the music world to a large extent. -- Rivers Cuomo
One of the great things about Silicon Valley is, irrespective of how competitive you might be with another company or how closely you might be working with that company, there's a great sort of give and take, and camaraderie from - between - some of the executives in the valley and some of the other investors in the valley. -- Dick Costolo
I'm no good at anything but comedy, which I think I'm good at. I'm absolutely no good at networking; I'm terrible at acting; I'm terrible at dealing with executives; I'm terrible at collaborating. And I say whatever I want to say. But I think I'm good enough at comedy that I can survive. And I don't really have an ambition for money. -- Norm MacDonald
I didn't listen to executives. -- Howard Stern
No agency is better than its account executives. -- Morris Hite
No agency is better than its account executives. -- Morris Hite
Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine. -- James Cash Penney
In my experience, good executives don't make mistakes. -- Ray Kroc
Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives. -- Scott Walker
Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first. -- Richard Jefferson
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks. -- Eric Sevareid
Great companies have been reduced by hiring executives that don't work out. -- Dylan Smith
Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. -- John C. Maxwell
Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.' -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Mothers are the ultimate executives. Instead of raising profits they are raising humanity. -- Virginia Burges
I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages. -- Connie Chung
It's not often that you get a director, singing the praises of his executives. -- Nick Willing
I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'. -- Chris Cooper
If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all. -- Gus Van Sant
In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains. -- Alex Berenson
Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers. -- Anna Faris
Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time. -- Peter Drucker
Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process. -- Leonard Maltin
I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage. -- Rita Mae Brown
When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us. -- William Feather
Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line. -- Bill Gurley
I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work. -- Don Nickles
To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them. -- Dale Dauten
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry. -- Don Bluth
Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough. -- Babyface
Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today. -- John C. Maxwell
If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives? -- Eric Idle
Marketers and executives are very different from the average consumer, so your instincts may mislead you. -- Chad White
What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy. -- Michio Kaku
In areas where they are simply incompetent, smart executives don't make decisions or take actions. They delegate. -- Peter Drucker
Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be. -- Michael Wilbon
If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers. -- Donald E. Westlake
I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods. -- David Chipperfield
Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives. -- Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr.
Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers, -- Banksy
One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
If more women would watch women's sports on TV it would urge [TV] executives to put more on. -- Beth Mowins
Clearly [Donald] Trump likes the way business executives and generals think and talk much more than policy professionals. -- Rich Lowry
I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood. -- Marlee Matlin
Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics. -- Aloe Blacc
The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy. -- Michael Moore
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. -- Harold S. Geneen
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. -- Bill Vaughan
Your executives liking your show makes all the difference in the world. It's the difference between happiness and misery. -- Rob Thomas
I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys. -- Julie Taymor
I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives. -- Martin Schulz
The Phoenix Project is a must read for business and IT executives struggling with the growing complexity of IT. -- Jim Whitehurst
I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out. -- Jack LaLanne
It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue. -- Fred Allen
Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting. -- Paul Tonko
Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success. -- Margaret Heffernan

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