Executives Quotes - Page 28

• Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Running, Mean, Doe

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• Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Smart, Lying, Race

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• The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization and it requires the requisite skills to understand how to be the leader of the people and manage the government of N.Y.

  Joe Lhota

  New York, Government, Skills

  "Joe Lhota: The Daily News Sitdown". Interview with Celeste Katz, www.nydailynews.com. January 18, 2013.

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• The administration is out lying through its teeth about all these people signing up and how great Obamacare is now. Meanwhile, Obama continues to break the law each and every day with executive actions - not even executive orders, executive actions - and proclamations.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Order, Law

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• I'm no good at anything but comedy, which I think I'm good at. I'm absolutely no good at networking; I'm terrible at acting; I'm terrible at dealing with executives; I'm terrible at collaborating. And I say whatever I want to say. But I think I'm good enough at comedy that I can survive. And I don't really have an ambition for money.

  Norm MacDonald

  Ambition, Thinking, Acting

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• Corporate executives need to re-frame their responsibilities to include the interests of all the stakeholders in society at large; not just shareholders, but also employees, the citizens of our communities, and those who care about the environment.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Responsibility, Community, Who Cares

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• Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for socially irresponsible behavior.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Needs, Veils, Behavior

  Interview with Jeff Sweat, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Without question, CEOs, executives and employees in companies in the United States and around the world have rallied to face the challenge of a social media marketplace.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, Challenges, World

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• The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.

  Michael Moore

  Wall, People, Economy

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• I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

  Alanis Morissette

  Artist, People, Sides

  "'I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing'". Interview with Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Independent, Judging, People

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• All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to keep costs, including labor, as low as possible.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Strong, Cost, Incentives

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• Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.

  Christine Pelosi

  Oil, Presidential, Shelter

  "Ryan Roadmap STILL a Roadmap to Ruin for Social Security" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2012.

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• Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.

  John Podhoretz

  Government, President, Executive Power

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• A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Guy, Crafts, Shots

  "Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges Talk R.I.P.D., Childhood Memories, On-Set Injuries, Creating Roy the Cowboy, and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Keys, Names

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• While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Thinking, Opposites, Salary

  "In Tough Times, Seek the Spirit" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2012.

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• If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

  Gus Van Sant

  Directors, Ifs

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 5, 2003.

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• Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For scientists, or Supreme Court justices, or chief executives, or the woman who wants to learn to fly F-l8s off an aircraft carrier, it works differently.

  Stacy Schiff

  Kids, Justice, Aircraft Carriers

  "Of Mama Grizzly Born?". Interview with Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. August 18, 2010.

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• Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar.

  James Surowiecki

  Jobs, Average, Impact

  "Apple: What Happens Now?". www.newyorker.com. August 24, 2011.

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• In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.

  James Surowiecki

  Safety, Environmental, Disaster

  "Fuel for Thought". www.newyorker.com. July 23, 2007.

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• In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.

  James Surowiecki

  Wall, Judging, Bars

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• In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market - the executives would get to loot their own firms once, then they'd be looking for jobs again.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, America, Would Be

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• Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.

  Helen Thomas

  Erosion, Presidential, Stronger

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• But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.

  Kanye West

  Opportunity, Hustle, Way

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