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• One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Doors, Losing, Symptoms

  "Building a winning boardroom team". www.cnn.com. May 16, 2005.

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• Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

  Pete Rozelle

  Sports, Football, Successful

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• There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

  Barbara Jordan

  Order, Law, People

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

  James Woods

  Attitude, Snow, Hollywood

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• 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

  Mean, Differences, People

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 02, 2002.

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• I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

  Marlee Matlin

  Hollywood, Handshake

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• I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Country, Sainthood, World

  Gerald R. Ford's speech to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as quoted in "The New York Times", May 4, 1974.

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• Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

  James Cash Penney

  Would Be, Routine, Slave

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• The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

  Gloria Swanson

  Sunset, Publicity, Euthanasia

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• I hope there will be some good news and some good profits, and people will realize we have a lot of outstanding executives, and a lot of companies that are doing a good job, and those are good companies to invest in.

  Don Nickles

  Jobs, People, News

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• He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.

  Major Owens

  Eye, Cost, Host

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• For far too long, the people of Northern Ireland have been denied an equal voice and equal representation in government. It is time for the Assembly and Executive to be up and running and the people's business to be addressed.

  James T. Walsh

  Running, Business, Government

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• February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

  Xavier Becerra

  War, Order, Years

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• I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.

  Marissa Mayer

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Google's Marissa Mayer: Passion is a gender-neutralizing force" by Felicia Taylor, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2012.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• 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 Geneen

  President, Vices, Clean Desk

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• 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

  Funny, Humor, Agency

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• 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

  Responsibility, Important, Use

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• I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Executive Power

  George W. Bush's Remarks in Question and Answer Session with the Press, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. January 29, 2001.

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• 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

  Being Strong, Courage, Simple

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• There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

  B. C. Forbes

  Credit, Satisfaction, Firsts

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• I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

  Joseph Heller

  Country, Business, Crazy

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• An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

  John Henry Patterson

  Definitions, Sometimes, Persons

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• No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Political, Trying

  In J. B. MacMaster 'History of the People of the U.S.' (1883-1913) vol. 2, ch. 13, p. 586

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