Executives Quotes - Page 34

• The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Great Men, Preference

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.213, Algora Publishing

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• The goal of cable news executives is not to make me an informed citizen of Earth. Their mission is to tickle the dark reptilian depths of my brain and hook me so they can then barter with my soul for advertising revenue.

  Guy P. Harrison

  Dark, Goal, Soul

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• The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor.

  Emilio Ambasz

  Animal, Skins, Chairs

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• When people abuse these freedoms to enrich themselves at the expense of others, then the public will demand the government to step in. That is how government grows, and how freedom is diminished.... When financial meltdowns occur, the public's outrage drives government to take over part of the private sector. When the government does so, it replaces irresponsible executives with unaccountable bureaucrats. That takes us out of the frying pan and into the fire.

  Ken Blackwell

  Fire, Government, People

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• The most important work of the executive is to identify the changes that have already happened. The important thing . . . is to exploit the changes that have already occurred and to use them as opportunities.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Important, Use

  Peter F. Drucker (2009). “The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views...The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

  Peter Drucker

  Views, Decision, Doe

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• You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.

  Jim Rogers

  Hot, Commodity, Analysts

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• To wage war, we need a commander in chief who has made tough calls in tough times and stood up to be held accountable over and over, not first-term senators who've never made an executive decision in their life.

  Carly Fiorina

  War, Tough Times, Decision

  Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• After a migratory crisis on the border with minors coming over that you're seeing start up again now, after all these executive orders the President has issued. More than ever we need to prove to people that illegal immigration is under control.

  Marco Rubio

  Order, People, President

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• When Wal-Mart brings water down to the Katrina victims, it's not doing that to be nice; it's doing it to make larger profits and to increase the value of its shares. If its actions are not accomplishing those objectives, the shareholders can sue the executives, and sue them successfully, because it is illegal for them to act on behalf of any other reason than increasing the value of their shares. There is nothing wrong with that. That is the way that they were created and the way we want them to function to increase prosperity in the market.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Nice, Water, Want

  Interview with David Kupfer, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 26, 2006.

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• Of the over 100,000 wildfires that happen in the U.S. each year, not a single one would get started without the fire triangle: Oxygen, heat and fuel. Fire needs all three to exist. It's like the three branches of our government: Legislative, judicial and executive. The fewer there are, the safer we are.

  Stephen Colbert

  Fire, Government, Oxygen

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• I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.

  Julie Taymor

  Character, Guy, Males

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• The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.

  Vaclav Havel

  Country, Two, Numbers

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• The only beef Enron employees have with top management is that management did not inform employees of the collapse in time to allow them to get in on the swindle. If Enron executives had shouted, "Head for the hills!" the employees might have had time to sucker other Americans into buying wildly over-inflated Enron stock. Just because your boss is a criminal doesn't make you a hero.

  Ann Coulter

  Hero, Top Management, Boss

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• I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.

  Peter Drucker

  Teaching, Thinking, People

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• Yet when the hour of decision arrives, it turns out that many conservatives care as little as ever about administrative skill and executive accomplishment. Our party and our movement overwhelmingly respond to symbolic cues. Sarah Palin is exciting and appealing. But what kind of executive is she? None of us have even the remotest idea.

  David Frum

  Party, Skills, Ideas

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• As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets "The Real World." "Survivor" marks a return to a core element of adventure: staying alive.

  Mark Burnett

  Real, Adventure, Islands

  Mark Burnett, Martin Dugard (2000). “Survivor: The Ultimate Game : the Official Companion Book to the CBS Television Show”, TV Books Incorporated

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• The most successful executives are often men who have built their own companies. Ironically their very success frequently brings to them and members of their families personal problems of an intensity rarely encountered by professional managers. And these problems make family businesses probably the most difficult to operate.

  Harry Levinson

  Successful, Men, Problem

  Harry Levinson (2006). “Harry Levinson on the Psychology of Leadership”, Harvard Business School Press

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• Women have made enormous progress on the lower and middle rungs of the career ladder, but we are failing to make the leap into senior positions. Everyone jumps to the conclusion that it's motherhood that holds women back, but often the big roadblock is the lack of executive presence.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Senior, Motherhood, Careers

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.

  Rebecca Eaton

  Ideas, Stories, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• It's not a cost of doing business when the corporation executives go to jail, and that's why they fight so hard to make sure the prosecutors' budget are very limited and that the campaign cash-greased lawmakers keep defending them against being held accountable.

  Ralph Nader

  Fighting, Jail, Campaigns

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Games were moved to New Year's Eve as part of a plan by college football executives where they want to create a tradition of watching football on New Year's Eve.

  Audie Cornish

  Football, New Year, College

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That approach in European institutions of higher learning was appealing to professors because it was democratic. But those institutions also suffered because they lacked an executive decision-making process; making changes became virtually impossible.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Running, Europe, Decision

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The strong point of American research universities is the manner in which trustees, presidents and other senior executives retain a considerable amount of decision-making authority while at the same time maintaining a culture of open exchange and participatory debate.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Senior, Strong, Decision

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of this tradition of problematic anti-elitism where the elites are always the liberal class - the intellectuals, the professors, the artists - and not the economic elites. Why are we so mad and aggrieved at newspaper editors but not at corporate executives? I think we need to look more at the latter, at economic elites.

  Astra Taylor

  Thinking, Artist, Editors

  Source: therumpus.net

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