Executives Quotes - Page 19

• I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.

  Stuart Rose

  Recommendations, Chiefs, Chief Executives

  "Sir Stuart Rose: 'They say we can't afford to retire, and I don't want to'". Interview with Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own.

  Rupert Sanders

  People, Tables, Littles

  "Snow White & The Huntsman director Rupert Sanders is living the fairy tale". Interview with Francesca Babb, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

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• I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Swimming, Thinking, People

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• Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.

  Jim Talent

  Jobs, Past, Oil

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• My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.

  Jack Markell

  Lows, Taxes, Rate

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• I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Successful, Thinking, Ideas

  "Richard Zanuck: 'Chocolate Factory' and Beyond". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. July 11, 2005.

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• For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables them to have their risk underwritten by public money; it enables them reasonably to expect that they can exploit for private profit now and later, the risky research developments paid for by public money. It is, in brief, a mask of the subsidized capitalism from which they extract profit and upon which their power is based.

  C. Wright Mills

  Military, Risk, Flow

  "The Causes of World War Three". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1958.

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• The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The Legislative it has given completely to the Senate and House of Representatives. It has declared that the Executive powers shall be vested in the President, submitting special articles of it to a negative by the Senate, and it has vested the Judiciary power in the courts of justice, with certain exceptions also in favor of the Senate.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Justice, House

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state”, p.465

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• The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.

  A. J. Liebling

  Character, Organization, President

  A. J. Liebling (2014). “The Sweet Science”, p.5, Macmillan

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• To have a healthy and thriving business, there must be healthy relationships with the C.E.O.S. in the organization and I'm not referring to the Chief Executive Offficers. I am talking about the Customers, the Employees, the Owner (or stockholders), and the Suppliers.

  James Hunter

  Talking, Organization, Healthy

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• The Carlyle Group is the most politically connected investment firm in the world. The company has mastered the art of influence peddling on a global scale, hiring executives and consultants ranging from Republican power broker James Baker and former president George Herbert Walker Bush to foreign leaders like former British prime minister John Major and former Philippine president Fidel Ramos.

  William Hartung

  Art, Leader, President

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• I came to understand that the words executive and corporate never belong next to the word chef.

  Thomas Keller

  Next, Chef, Corporate

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• Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his desk, than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today, in the executive suite, the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure.

  Warren Buffett

  Toilets, Today, Succeed

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.89, John Wiley & Sons

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• Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, People, Decision

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Frontiers of Management”, p.120, Routledge

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• Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress.

  Jay Rockefeller

  People, Accountability, Branches

  "Democrats close Senate to push war probe". www.cnn.com. November 1, 2005.

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• Early in my career when we went to golf tournaments and charity dinners I noticed businessmen and executives would give the players their cards. Well, they're giving you their cards for a reason. I said to my wife, 'All the guys get these cards and then when they get to the parking lot they rip them up or throw them away. It's really weird.' My wife .. said maybe you should just sign a picture and mail it to them. You know, 'Great playing golf with you,' or whatever. So, I did and lo and behold some of those guys I sent pictures to way back then are now CEOs at big companies.

  Tie Domi

  Rip, Golf, Player

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• When it comes to fully understanding how to strategically move all the pieces on the marketing and distribution chess board on a worldwide basis, Jeff Blake is always thinking two moves ahead and that gives Sony a true competitive edge. He is the studio's secret weapon and while he would be the first to credit his fantastic sales and marketing team, there are few executives here that deserve more credit for our successes during the past several years than Jeff.

  Amy Pascal

  Team, Moving, Past

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• If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of world government — is mandatory. The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty, just as America's thirteen colonies did two centuries ago. When we finally come to our senses and establish a world executive and parliament of nations, thanks to the Nuremburg precedent we will already have in place the fundamentals for the third branch of government, the judiciary.

  Walter Cronkite

  War, Light, Government

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• We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.

  Walter Cronkite

  World Government, Police, Historical

  "United Nations, National Sovereignty and the Future of the World". Speech upon receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award, the UN Delegates Dining Room, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. October 19, 1999.

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• I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you know, I think it wouldn't be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Running, Jobs

  "Steve Jobs speaks out". archive.fortune.com. March 7, 2008.

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• Government is not infallible. Government is only an executive control, a centralized authority for the purpose of expressing the will of the people; before you have a government you must have the people. Without the people there can be no government. The government must be, therefore, an expression of the will of the people.

  Marcus Garvey

  Government, Expression, People

  Marcus Garvey (1923). “Philosophy and opinions: Edited by Amy Jacques-Garvey”

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• I believe that I have the executive experience and the ideas and the proven record to fix things.

  Jeb Bush

  Believe, Ideas, Records

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2015.

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• I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students.

  Jeb Bush

  Opportunity, Order, African American

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2015.

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• People don't tune in to watch network executives' decisions. They don't tune in to watch writers' decisions. They tune in to watch people that they like.

  Liz Brixius

  People, Decision, Tunes

  Source: deadline.com

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• A "showrunner" as a position is a relatively new thing. It used to be the executive producer. That's not true anymore. Now it's evolved into this model where people look to showrunners and say, that guy is that show. It's just become a lot more interesting to know the showrunner and to get a sense of that person.

  Matt Nix

  Interesting, People, Guy

  Source: deadline.com

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