Executives Quotes - Page 20

• Women administer the home. They set the rules, enforce them, mete out justice for violations. Thus, like Congress, they legislate; like the Executive, they administer; like the courts, they interpret the rules. It is an ideal experience for politics.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Home, Justice, Congress

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• Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Jobs, Successful, Years

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• What reason is there for believing that a high death rate, in itself, is undesirable? To my knowledge none whatever. The plain fact is that, if it be suitably selective, it is extremely salubrious. Suppose it could be so arranged that it ran to 100% a year among politicians, executive secretaries, drive chairmen, and the homicidally insane? What rational man would object?

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Years

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.344, Vintage

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• Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this department of human study will be enabled more effectually than heretofore to keep pace with our theoretical knowledge of its principles and laws, through the complete control which the engine gives us over the executive manipulation of algebraical and numerical symbols.

  Ada Lovelace

  Law, Giving, Principles

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• When Clark Gable, MGM's most popular and famous leading man asked for a percentage of the profits from his films, he was flatly refused. A top executive was reported to have said, He's nobody. We took him from nobody. We lavished him with lessons and publicity and now he's the most desired man in the world. Who taught him how to walk? We straightened his teeth and capped them into that smile. We taught this dumb cluck how to depict great emotions, and now he wants a piece of the action? Never!

  Jeanine Basinger

  Men, Dumb, Teeth

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• I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Creative, Be Creative, Have Courage

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.142, Bantam

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• Remove the heavy clothing of your self-definition. You are not woman, you are not American, you are not son, you are not spiritual seeker, executive, teacher, unemployed, you are not wounded, you are not highly respected, you are not productive, you are not blah-blah-blah-blah.

  Jan Frazier

  Spiritual, Teacher, Son

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• When you are an executive, my friends, that is not leadership.

  Shirley Franklin

  My Friends

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• I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.

  Peter Drucker

  Believe, Data, World

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• A good executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants.

  Vince Lombardi

  Looks, Assistants, Worried

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• Every coach, every executive, every leader: They all know right from wrong. Even those Enron guys. When someone uncovers a scandal in their company, I don't think they can say, "I didn't know that was going on." They're just saying they're too dumb to do their job! And if they really are too dumb, then why are they getting paid millions of dollars to do it? They know what's going on.

  Bo Schembechler

  Jobs, Thinking, Enron Scandal

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• Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation.

  Augusto Pinochet

  President, Titles, Boards

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• It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

  Ben Horowitz

  Goal, Quarters

  "Old People" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. December 5, 2012.

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• In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions. It became painfully obvious that the executive branch of our government did not trust its military. It relied instead on a neoconservative ideology developed by men and women with little, if any, military experience. Some senior military leaders did not challenge civilian decision makers at the appropriate times, and the courageous few who did take a stand were subsequently forced out of the service.

  Ricardo Sanchez

  Senior, Military, Men

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• Whether your gift is mighty or humble, whether you exercise it in the marketplace or at the podium, in the executive suite or in the schoolroom, in the office or at home, your main task or gift or ministry is to be a light in a dark world.

  Gigi Graham

  Home, Humble, Exercise

  Gigi Graham Tchividjian (2001). “For Women Only: Keeping Your Balance in a Changing World”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Within two weeks of moving into the White House, Obama signed a series of executive orders championed by union bosses. The new rules authorized sweeping powers for the labor secretary that essentially blackball nonunion contractors targeted by labor organizers and blacklist nonunion employees in the private sector from working on taxpayer-funded projects.

  Michelle Malkin

  Moving, Order, Two

  "Big Labor's Investment in Obama Pays Off" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 13, 2009.

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• Leadership is not about executive position or title. It is about connection and influence. At its highest, leadership is all about adding value to the world and blessing lives through the work you do.

  Robin Sharma

  Blessing, Adding Value, Titles

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• Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay.

  Warren Buffett

  Lines, Pay, Ceo

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• I mean, they clearly have a process of how they go about making their movies, and John Lasseter has been instrumental in implementing that process for all three studios with the Brain Trust and the way we work and the way we break stories and how it's all creative led. There are no executives in the room. So I think all of that is embraced unilaterally. But that's the first time I've heard of that.

  Klay Hall

  Mean, Thinking, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• I have a great set of executive producers helping me out. I have a great cast and crew. AMC has been fantastic. I'd say it's everything I was doing before, just eighteen other jobs. I love it.

  Scott M. Gimple

  Jobs, Helping, Fantastic

  Source: collider.com

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• There was a general sense that if you were going to get close enough to a CBS executive to tweak his nose, you'd only have one hand free because you were holding your own.

  Howard Hesseman

  Hands, Noses, Enough

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• It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict 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. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order.

  Walter Cronkite

  World Government, Yield, Order

  "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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• ...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from executive 'doing.' Each of these activities is then assigned its own place in which it must abide. Those who write the anatomy of experience then suppose that these divisions inhere in the very constitution of human nature.

  John Dewey

  Writing, Practice, Imagination

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• If more women would watch women's sports on TV it would urge [TV] executives to put more on.

  Beth Mowins

  Sports, Watches, Tvs

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• How forthright does the audience want the broadcasters to be? Because when you tell your truth, there's a lot of anger that comes out. I think it's a good question to ask TV people [executives] too. How much truth do they want to be told? How much truth does the league want told? Because the truth isn't just a positive truth. If you're going to tell the truth, you would be telling a lot of positive and some negative.

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Thinking, People, League

  "ESPN 2015 NBA Finals Media Call with Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson". Interview with Gianina Thompson, espnmediazone.com. June 1, 2015.

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