Executives Quotes - Page 32

• While I believe that my lengthy career provides sufficient evidence for consideration of my nomination, I am convinced the efforts to obtain Executive Branch materials and information will continue.

  Harriet Miers

  Believe, Careers, Effort

  "Miers Withdraws Nomination". www.foxnews.com. October 27, 2005.

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• Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Running, Men, He Man

  1925 Arrowsmith, ch.25.

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• Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will remain one for the foreseeable future, and infants belong in the nursery. The 'adults', that is, the executives in charge of existing businesses or products will have neither the time nor understanding for the infant.

  Peter Drucker

  Team, Responsibility, Effort

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1985). “Innovation and entrepreneurship: practice and principles”

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• Global warming may be a 'crisis,' even 'the most pressing environmental problem of our time.' ... Indeed, it may ultimately affect nearly everyone on the planet in some potentially adverse way, and it may be that governments have done too little to address it. It is not a problem, however, that has escaped the attention of policymakers in the Executive and Legislative Branches of our Government, who continue to consider regulatory, legislative, and treaty-based means of addressing global climate change.

  John Roberts

  Mean, Government, Environmental

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• There is a decided prejudice on the part of the general public against being piloted by a woman, and as great an aversion, partially because of this, by executives of those companies whose activities require employing pilots.

  Louise Thaden

  Women, Aversion, Pilots

  Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.99, University of Arkansas Press

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• News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that, at this moment, people are working, organising - not just at an executive level, but on the floor, in the warehouse. A man is packing a box of oral rehydration tablets; maternity kits are being prepared; education kits are being packed. And somewhere, tomorrow, those boxes will be unpacked and a child with life-threatening diarrhoea will be saved, a baby will be born in more hygienic circumstances, a girl will receive her first exercise book and her first pencil.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Sympathy, Girl, Baby

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• Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking as World Wildlife Fund Executive Vice President, stating the need to conserve biodiversity, even plants and animals having no immediate use, as a unique repository of genes for possible future biogengineering applications.

  Thomas Lovejoy

  Animal, Unique, President

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• The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.

  Vikas Swarup

  Alcohol, Might, Whiskey

  Vikas Swarup (2008). “Q & A: A Novel”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage this, you need all the ideas you can get.

  David Ogilvy

  Senior, Men, Ideas

  David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.94, Profile Books

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• These niggaz ain't thugs, the real thugs is the government.
  Don't matter if you Independent, Democrat or Republican,
  Niggaz politickin' the street, get into beef,
  Start blastin'...now a new cat is executive chief.

  Talib Kweli

  Real, Rap, Cat

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• I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men, whose superiors it is our happiness to believe are not found on the executive calendar of any country.

  Martin Van Buren

  Country, Believe, Men

  Martin Van Buren (1969). “Martin Van Buren, 1782-1862: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”

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• The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.

  George Washington

  Government, Political, Suffering

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.74, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Without having some kind of parameters placed on a coach, the reality is they could all have a different vision of what a kid's limit is in the heat, ... The policy itself that was adopted by the OSAA executive board gives the coaches some parameters as to how to structure their practices and guidelines to follow.

  Brad Garrett

  Kids, Reality, Practice

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• I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Executive Power, Royal, Revolution

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• When top executives get huge pay hikes at the same time as middle-level and hourly workers lose their jobs and retirement savings, or have to accept negligible pay raises and cuts in health and pension benefits, company morale plummets. I hear it all the time from employees: This company, they say, is being run only for the benefit of the people at the top. So why should we put in extra effort, commit extra hours, take on extra responsibilities? We'll do the minimum, even cut corners. This is often the death knell of a company.

  Robert Reich

  Running, Retirement, Jobs

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• [F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on would have about as much chance of power as the chief executive of BP has in taking over from Oprah Winfrey.

  Terry Eagleton

  Soccer, Football, Games

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• I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.

  Edward Snowden

  Law, Secret, Government Spying

  "NSA whistleblower whereabouts reportedly unknown as authorities consider charges", www.foxnews.com. June 11, 2013.

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• As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Kings, Mean, Men

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

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• For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve my life-long dream of playing in the NBA.

  Ron Wyden

  Dream, Believe, Nba

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• At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Heart, Good Business, Chief Executives

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• Do you know the most important trait a man can have?
  It is not executive ability; it is not a great mentality; it is not kindliness, nor courage, nor a sense of humor, though each of these is of tremendous importance.
  In my opinion, it is the ability to make friends, which, boiled down, means the ability to see the best in man.

  Dale Carnegie

  Mean, Men, Important

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• I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Team, Boss, Cinema

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• A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

  James Madison

  Military, Long, Liberty

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

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• Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics and that there are no easy shortcuts to success. Their companies need ethics carefully sewn into their fabric.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Needs, Fabric, Shortcuts

  "Corruption in Business, and the Importance of Ethics" by Vivek Wadhwa, www.linkedin.com. July 13, 2013.

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• Mainstream politicians will continue to protect existing systems of power, corporate executives will continue to maximize profit without concern, and the majority of people will continue to avoid these questions. It’s the job of people with critical sensibilities—those who consistently speak out for justice and sustainability, even when it’s difficult—not to back away just because the world has grown more ominous.

  Robert Jensen

  Jobs, Speaks Out, People

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