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With very few exceptions, successful movies didn't translate well to the small screen-but that didn't stop TV executives from attempt after attempt. — Bob Leszczak

And there's doctors and lawyers,
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same. — Malvina Reynolds

Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line. — Bill Gurley

The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers. — Akio Morita

In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire. — Patrick Whitesell

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood. — Marlee Matlin

The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership - it is practicing their understanding of leadership. — Marshall Goldsmith

Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives. — Thomas J. Bouchard Jr.

Either an executive can do his job or he can't. — Robert Heller

Companies buy customers when they cannot win new business on their own. They merge when their executives do not have a better idea of what to do. — Alex Berenson

Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive. — Brian Tracy

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life. — Eric Thomas

I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough. — Natalie Zea

An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right — Elbert Hubbard

Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success. — Margaret Heffernan

Ideally, most of the top executives of a company should be on Foundational tours. — Reid Hoffman

I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys. — Julie Taymor

It's not often that you get a director, singing the praises of his executives. — Nick Willing

European affairs are no longer reserved for the executive. — Udo Di Fabio

A lot of deals are done or not done because chief executives are not fully aligned to shareholders. — Ivan Glasenberg

Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors. — Peter F. Drucker

If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives? — Eric Idle

Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be. — Michael Wilbon

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

executives. View this report, titled A Comparison of the Career Attainments of Men and Women Healthcare Executives, December 2006, at — Nancy Borkowski

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work. — Don Nickles

I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages. — Connie Chung

I'm very involved with all the executives at Televisa. — Randy Falco

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

I have very good executives and great children. They're very good. — Donald Trump

I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out. — Jack LaLanne

With a global society hungry for luxury, distribution and supply chains are now as important for executives as a hands-on feel for products. — Suzy Menkes

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

I didn't listen to executives. — Howard Stern

In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural
the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers. — Michael Palmer

Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers, — Banksy

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. — Harold S. Geneen

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective. — Peter Drucker

Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics. — Aloe Blacc

I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'. — Chris Cooper

I came to understand that the words executive and corporate never belong next to the word chef. — Thomas Keller

I have to make a lot of decisions that aren't in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives, players. — Roger Goodell

Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.' — Rebecca MacKinnon

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry. — Don Bluth

If there is any one "secret" of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time. — Peter F. Drucker

The secret is that effective executives make the strengths of the boss productive. — Peter F. Drucker

That is why 85 percent of executives perceive that the key barriers to sustained and profitable growth that they face are on the inside. — Chris Zook

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

When direction and meaning are confined to Executive Leadership, value is minimized. — Bob Anderson

To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them. — Dale Dauten

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

In my experience, good executives don't make mistakes. — Ray Kroc

Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers. — Anna Faris

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

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time. — Peter Drucker

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today. — John C. Maxwell

It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life. — Jerry Greenfield

incidentally, all Amazon senior executives had to read - the — Brad Stone

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs. — Peter Drucker

Corporate executives often buy or sell shares in their companies, and stocks rarely rise or fall significantly when those transactions are reported. — Alex Berenson

Your executives liking your show makes all the difference in the world. It's the difference between happiness and misery. — Rob Thomas

Businessmen ... were not born chief executives. They were often people first. — Richard Jefferson

The women executives in the film industry have the power to say, 'No,' but few of them have the power to say, 'Yes.' — Melanie Mayron

In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains. — Alex Berenson

Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives. — Scott Walker

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour. — Gloria Swanson

Executives don't burn out and leave when they feel deep satisfaction. They don't create the human detritus that disgruntled managers do. — Srikumar Rao

A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me. — Eli Broad

Mothers are the ultimate executives. Instead of raising profits they are raising humanity. — Virginia Burges

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things. — Akio Morita

When you are an executive, my friends, that is not leadership. — Shirley Franklin

It's funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids. — Ana Gasteyer

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all. — Gus Van Sant

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process. — Leonard Maltin

It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it. — Kevin Spacey

A meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive. — John Leo

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough. — Kenneth Edmonds

I'm tired of doing rewrites for executives. — Richard LaGravenese

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

Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media. — Mark Cuban

I used to do a stunt in almost every movie. When I became an executive, all the insurance guys freaked out. — Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes. — Malcolm Forbes

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks. — Eric Sevareid

No agency is better than its account executives. — Morris Hite

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

My laptop helps me carry on my business functions and stay in touch with my executives when I'm abroad. — Lucio Tan

What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy. — Michio Kaku

It's not how you compensate your executives, it's which executives you have to compensate in the first place. If — James C. Collins

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners. — Letitia Baldrige

For a company culture to change, the top executives must be on board with changing it. This means they must understand what the change means for them. — Janet Gregory

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders. — T. Boone Pickens

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene. — Justin Welby

The Phoenix Project is a must read for business and IT executives struggling with the growing complexity of IT. — Jim Whitehurst

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment. — Sinclair Lewis

Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting. — Paul Tonko

Chose executives on the basis of "runway," their capacity for growth. — Carol S. Dweck

Marketers and executives are very different from the average consumer, so your instincts may mislead you. — Chad White

In areas where they are simply incompetent, smart executives don't make decisions or take actions. They delegate. — Peter Drucker

Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience. — William Feather

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. — Bill Vaughan