Executives Quotes - Page 12

• If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.

  Lee Iacocca

  Block, Believe, Class

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• My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Jobs, Hands, Issues

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• The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the development of civilization, but such leaders appear sporadically, by chance. They do not always appear when they are most needed. The great executives have given inspiration and push to the advancement of human society, but it is the legislator who has given stability and continuity to that slow and painful progress.

  J. William Fulbright

  Powerful, Inspiration, Civilization

  "The Legislator". Lecture delivered at the University of Chicago; in "The Works of the Mind" by Robert B. Heywood, edition for the University's Committee on Social Thought (1947), p. 119, 1946.

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• The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Boys, Blue, Black

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.

  Stephen Colbert

  Host, Minutes, Producers

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• Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

  David Riesman

  Work, May, Helping

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.176, Transaction Publishers

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• Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.

  Dylan McDermott

  Successful, Film And Television, Producers

  "Interview: DARK BLUE Stars Dylan McDermott, Logan Marshall-Green, Nicki Aycox, and Omari Hardwick". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2009.

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• If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.

  Daniel Gilbert

  People, Done, Lawyer

  "Happiness: The elusive emotion". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. November 20, 2006.

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• Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.

  Nigel Lythgoe

  Inspirational, Heart, Eye

  "Nigel Lythgoe officially returning to ‘American Idol’" by Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. August 05, 2010.

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• The classic problem as an entrepreneur is that they have a hard time delegating. But that's really crazy. Recruiting other executives is critical, so is dealing with customers and dealing with regulators. Those are functions that only the top founders can do.

  Robert Pozen

  Crazy, Hard Times, Entrepreneur

  "How To Delegate Responsibility To Other People" by Aimee Groth, www.businessinsider.com. January 18, 2013.

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• Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.

  Aloe Blacc

  Art, Stars, Tired

  "Aloe Blacc: '50 Cent put me off rapping'" by Tom Ayres, www.digitalspy.com. June 5, 2011.

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• In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Winning, Branches, Executive Branch

  Lincoln Chafee (2010). “Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President”, p.2, Macmillan

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• The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.

  P. Chidambaram

  Independent, Government, Police

  "Chidambaram: Poor Conditions ‘Dehumanize’ Police". Interview with Geeta Anand, blogs.wsj.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.

  P. Chidambaram

  Mean, Independent, Exercise

  "Chidambaram: Poor Conditions ‘Dehumanize’ Police". Interview with Geeta Anand, blogs.wsj.com. February 7, 2012.

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• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Book, Successful, Thinking

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• Well, one of the things a lot of Americans don't know, when Mitt Romney is nominated a few days from now, he will be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, who had run a university and had run the allied war effort. That's actually a big deal.

  Artur Davis

  Running, War, Effort

  "Artur Davis: This isn't the Democratic Party I used to know". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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• Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.

  Artur Davis

  Country, Artist, People

  "Artur Davis: This isn't the Democratic Party I used to know". Interview With Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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• But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes.

  Griffin Dunne

  Reading, Cutting, Interesting

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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• It’s funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Stress, Taken, Kids

  "‘Suburgatory’ Star Ana Gasteyer Talks New Show And ‘SNL’ Past". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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• It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Levels, Social, Bigs

  "Peace, love and fairtrade ice-cream" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. June 01, 2012.

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• Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius.

  Jim Croce

  Genius, Matter, Facts

  Song: Workin' At The Carwash Blues

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• In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not the executive department. ... The trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man.

  James Madison

  War, Men, Temptation

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1826). “The Federalist: On the New Constitution”, p.550

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• TARP is funded by taxpayers, so there are many rules about how that money can and can't be used. The result: GM spends an awful lot of time checking in with the people who administer TARP over everything from hiring to executive compensation and management. For a global company, that adds up to a lot of distraction.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  People, Add, Awful

  "Ed Whitacre: Time for 'Government Motors' to Hit the Road" by Edward Whitacre, Jr., www.wsj.com. September 19, 2012.

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• I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.

  Keira Knightley

  Different, Opinion, Film

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• A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced.

  David Limbaugh

  Greatness, America, President

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