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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
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
Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.
— Margaret Heffernan
I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.
— Julie Taymor
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
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
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— Nancy Borkowski
I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.
— Don Nickles
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 spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
— Jack LaLanne
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 unnaturalthe product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers. — Michael Palmer
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
— Harold S. Geneen
Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.
— Aloe Blacc
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
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
Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.
— Daniel Kahneman
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
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
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
— Peter Drucker
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
The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.
— Gloria Swanson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
