Executives Quotes - Page 5

• The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team.

  Gerard Arpey

  Team, Moving, Long

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• Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.

  Steve Largent

  Sports, President, Association

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• It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

  Garet Garrett

  Law, President, Principles

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

  Garet Garrett

  Loyalty, Father, Law

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

  Edward de Bono

  Believe, School, Data

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• 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

  Thinking, Ideas, Creative

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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  Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

  Larry Bird

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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  The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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• It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

  Vince Lombardi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Winners never quit and quitters never win.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

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• Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  President Robert Robbins' Installation Speech, president.arizona.edu. November 29, 2017.

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• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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• Education is the mother of leadership.

  Wendell Willkie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  Wendell Lewis Willkie (1943). “Freedom and the Liberal Arts”

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• Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Business, Taken

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• Steve Jobs was an iconic entrepreneur and businessman whose impact on technology was felt beyond Silicon Valley. He will be remembered for the innovation he brought to market and the inspiration he brought to the world.

  Meg Whitman

  Change, Jobs, Inspiration

  FaceBook post by Meg Whitman from Oct 06, 2011

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• Problems are good, as long as you solve them quickly.

  Meg Whitman

  Inspirational, Long, Problem

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• Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.

  James J. Hill

  Funny, Giving, Sweden

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• No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

  Lee Iacocca

  Love, Family, Wise

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• A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

  Lois Wyse

  Life, Friendship, Best Friend

  Lois Wyse (1996). “Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration”

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• I'm an optimist.
  I've always believed the future is going to be better than the past.
  And I also believe I have a role in that.
  The great thing about human beings, myself in particular, is that I can change.
  I can do better.
  If you can get up every day, stay optimistic, and believe the future is better than the past, those few things get you through a lot of tough times.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "The Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt". Interview with John R. Byrne, www.fastcompany.com. July 1, 2005.

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• To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

  Chester Barnard

  Inspirational, Failure, Learning

  Chester Irving Barnard (1968). “The Functions of the Executive”, p.26, Harvard University Press

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• There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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• The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade union official, or a business executive. If forces them to put up or shut up. They either have to deliver the goods, produce something that people are willing to pay for, are willing to buy, or else they have to go into a different business.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, People, Different

  "The Tyranny of Control". PBS "Free to Choose", episode 2, 1980.

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• The government's assertion that it must be unhindered in protecting our security can camouflage the desire to increase Executive power, while the press's cry of the public's right to know can mask a quest for competitive advantage or a hidden animus. Neither the need to protect our security nor the public's right to know is a blank check.

  Richard Stengel

  Government, Desire, Needs

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• There's a classic story I tell about when I did the Man Show about the retarded conversations that you have with the executive producers and the network.

  Joe Rogan

  Men, Stories, Classic

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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