Executives Quotes - Page 19

• NBC executives say that if Donald Trump does run for president, they will not renew The Apprentice. So some good may come out of this.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Nbc, President

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• The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise these powers in person, and their inaptitude to exercise them, induce them to appoint special organs to declare their legislative will, to judge and to execute it. It is the will of the nation which makes the law obligatory.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Law, Judging

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.378, Penguin

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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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• I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment.

  George W. Bush

  Branches, Executive Branch, Encroachment

  President Bush's Press Conference at the James S. Brady Briefing Room, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. March 13, 2002.

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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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• 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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• If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big!

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Success, Business

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• Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.

  Peter Drucker

  Smart, Frustration, Years

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• I'm going to ask the three executives here to raise their hand if they flew here commercial. Let the record show no hands went up. Second, I'm going to ask you to raise your hand if you're planning to sell your jet in place now and fly back commercial. Let the record show no hands went up.

  Brad Sherman

  Hands, Three, Records

  Brad Sherman during Automotive Industry Assistance Hearing, www.c-span.org. November 19, 2008.

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• I do not mean to suggest for a moment that all it takes to be a top executive is a custom-tailored European suit. You also need the correct shirt and tie.

  Dave Barry

  Mean, Ties, Suits You

  Dave Barry (1986). “Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week”, p.35, Rodale

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• The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle.

  Fred Allen

  Average, Growth, President

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• I agree with Marco [Rubio] that we can't afford another four years like the last eight years that we've had under [Barack] Obama, for sure. That we concur on. I think we need someone with proven executive leadership to be able to make that case to the American people.

  Jeb Bush

  Thinking, Eight, Years

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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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• I think there's an element to this business that writers especially are overlooked in many ways and this made everybody kind of look at us differently. I do think that an interesting thing happened during it, which was being on these picket lines and looking at the huge amount of executives coming and going that you realize don't really add much to the equation.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Thinking, Interesting, Elements

  Source: deadline.com

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• We have to separate here the church in its broad sense. We have Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox churches. The Catholic church is a corporation like a chief executive. A fairly homogenous operation. Today its attitude toward anti-Semitism is much more severe than it's ever been. The Catholic Church today is much less the problem than the other groups.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Attitude, Church Today, Catholic

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The difficult notes are when they say, "And this is how we want you to fix it . . ." Just tell me what the problem is. Just tell me what the issue is, and I'll go off an fix it. It's usually when executives get to a place where they're trying to fix the problem for you that you have issues

  Ronald D. Moore

  Issues, Trying, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Now I know that if I'm in a fight or a big argument with executives or the studio or whoever, and it's getting to a point where it's starting to get bad, I don't have to have the fear of, "Am I strong enough to see this through? Would I really make a stand here? Would I really quit over this issue?" And I know in my heart that there is a place where I would walk away. I don't have to make it about my ego. I don't have to make it about whether I'm being strong enough or tough enough.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Strong, Heart, Fighting

  Source: collider.com

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• It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue.

  Fred Allen

  Issues, Office, Faces

  Fred Allen (2007). “Treadmill to Oblivion”, p.211, Wildside Press LLC

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• In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

  James Madison

  Military, War, Long

  James Madison (1787). “The Writings of James Madison: 1787. The journal of the Constitutional convention”, p.317

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• We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, War, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• The best leaders are apt to be found among those executives who have a strong component of unorthodoxy in their character. Instead of resisting innovation, they symbolize it.

  David Ogilvy

  Strong, Character, Leader

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• My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

  Steve Jobs

  Jobs, Team, Trying

  "Steve Jobs speaks out", archive.fortune.com.

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