Executives Quotes - Page 8

• To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws . . .

  John C. Calhoun

  America, Law, Majority

  John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The power given by the Constitution to the Executive to interpose his veto is a high conservative power; but in my opinion it should never be exercised except in cases of clear violation of the Constitution, or manifest haste and want of due consideration by Congress.

  Zachary Taylor

  Haste, Want, Conservative

  Zachary Taylor, S. HORN (1848). “All the Letters of Major General Z. Taylor: Anecdotes of rough and ready: Songs of Old Zach's Campaigns, etc. [Edited by] S. Horn”, p.10

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• Many of my executives have worked with me since the beginning. I can be fair and decisive and encouraging as well as demanding.

  Martha Stewart

  Wells, Fairs, I Can

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• I’ve come to realize that being a mother makes me a better executive, because motherhood forces prioritization. Being a mom gives you so much more clarity on what is important.

  Marissa Mayer

  Mom, Mother, Giving

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• That business aspect of the media, that Charlotte Street world, the advertising and programme executives, it leaves me absolutely cold. I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.

  Rory Bremner

  Media, Ideas, Directors

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• The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.

  Andrew Jackson

  Acting, May, Influence

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.237

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• The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.

  William Henry Harrison

  Exercise, Rights, Government

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• If you are a middle manager avid to begin a quality initiative in a company ruled by an executive from the old school, look elsewhere for a job.

  Mary Walton

  Jobs, School, Avid

  Mary Walton (1991). “Deming management at work”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

  Ricardo Semler

  Feel Good, Purpose, Making Money

  "Ricardo Semler, Semco SA". edition.cnn.com. October 7, 2004.

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• Over the last 40 years, I have built MW into a multi-billion dollar company with amazing employees and loyal customers who value the products and service they receive at MW. Over the past several months I have expressed my concerns to the Board about the direction the company is currently heading.Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the Boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the Board has inappropriately chosen to silence my concerns through termination as an executive officer.

  George Zimmer

  Past, Years, Loyal Customers

  "Fired Men's Wearhouse Founder Slams The Board In An Explosive Statement" by Ashley Lutz, www.businessinsider.com. June 19, 2013.

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• But I like to think that a lot of managers and executives trying to solve problems miss the forest for the trees by forgetting to look at their people -- not at how much more they can get from their people or how they can more effectively manage their people. I think they need to look a little more closely at what it's like for their people to come to work there every day.

  Gordon Bethune

  Thinking, People, Tree

  Gordon Bethune (1999). “From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental's Remarkable Comeback”, Wiley

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• Capitalism's biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling the virtues of competitive markets with every breath while attempting to extinguish them with every action.

  Raghuram Rajan

  Political, Enemy, Suits

  Raghuram Rajan (2013). “Saving Capitalism From The Capitalism”, p.212, HarperCollins Publishers India

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• But women are coming into Wall Street in large numbers — and they still are not making partner and are not getting into the positions that lead to the executive suites. There's still an old-boy network. You just have to keep fighting.

  Muriel Siebert

  Wall, Fighting, Boys

  "Muriel Siebert, a Determined Trailblazer for Women on Wall Street, Dies at 84" by Enid Nemy, www.nytimes.com. August 25, 2013.

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• Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong.

  Charles Ferguson

  Jail, Years, Forgive Me

  "Charles Ferguson’s Oscar Speech Rips Wall Street: ‘Inside Job’ Director Levels Criticism During Acceptance". www.huffingtonpost.com. Februrary 28, 2011.

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• All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.

  James Burgh

  Government, People, Authority

  James Burgh (1775). “Political Disquisitions: Or, An Inquiry Into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses. Illustrated By, and Established Upon Facts and Remarks, Extracted from a Variety of Authors, Ancient and Modern...”, p.3

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• I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.

  Nia Vardalos

  Wedding, Greek, Looks

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• Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

  Art Buchwald

  School, Night, Government

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• As presidential authority expands, and the role of Congress diminishes, the American people continue to lose control over their government. Today's assertions of executive power are indeed a nightmare and Peter Shane's extremely readable and well-informed book describes this disturbing transformation in frightening detail. For anybody who cares about our constitutional system of protected liberties, this book is indispensable. I couldn't put it down and grew angrier, and more concerned, with every page.

  Mickey Edwards

  Book, Government, People

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• Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening up old closets of secrecy, reducing the relevance of ownership, early arrival, and location-should seem less a litany of problems than an agenda for action. Reaching for a way to describe the entrepreneurial energy of his fabled editor Harold Ross, James Thurber said" 'He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.' That's the appropriate posture for a knowledge executive.

  Harlan Cleveland

  Mean, Opening Up, Editors

  Harlan Cleveland (1985). “The knowledge executive: leadership in an information society”, E P Dutton

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• The key reason executives are paid so much now is that they appoint the members of the corporate board that determines their compensation and control many of the perks that board members count on. So it's not the invisible hand of the market that leads to those monumental executive incomes; it's the invisible handshake in the boardroom.

  Paul Krugman

  Keys, Hands, Invisible Hand

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• You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.

  Eric Thomas

  Directors, Screenwriters

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• The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit.

  Eric Schlosser

  Running, Men, Hamburgers

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.269, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• PERENNIAL wisdom from divine revelation and human experience dictates that all earthly things great or small, beautiful or ugly, good or bad, sad or happy, fool...ish or wise must finally come to an end. It is from this sobering reality that the end of executive rule has finally come for Robert Mugabe who has had his better days after a quarter of a century in power.

  Jonathan Moyo

  Beautiful, Wise, Reality

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• The late Alfred P. Sloan, Ir., long-time executive of General Motors Corporation, had a fivepoint "secret of success." It was: 1. Get the facts. 2. Recognize the equities of all concerned. 3. Realize the necessity of doing a better job every day. 4. Keep an open mind. 5. Work hard.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Jobs, Hard Work, Long

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• The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.

  Michael O'Leary

  Taken, Vision, Boards

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