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Quotes About Executives

I attended first a military academy, then a public school in Beverly Hills, where we lived, and many of my classmates were the children of movie stars and studio executives.
~ Michael Korda
Anthony and I are putting together a company where we won't lose our jobs based on quarterly earnings and can afford to play a longer game. That short game is what creates a glut of mediocrity in the market because people are desperate for hits, and it puts so much pressure on executives to deliver them. We will take that pressure off the artists.
~ Joe Russo
The really cool challenge of '24' was learning on camera how to be a dramatic actress. The biggest difficulty was the industry side of things. I was very lucky that I had Joel Surnow, one of the creators of '24,' in my corner. Early on, the Fox executives couldn't believe that I was on the show.
~ Mary Lynn Rajskub
My laptop helps me carry on my business functions and stay in touch with my executives when I'm abroad.
~ Lucio Tan
The dirty little secret on Wall Street: Eighty percent of the Wall Street executives' and their spouses' donations go to Democrats. It's like they've got some kind of little sweet deal, where we'll call you fat cats and demean you and stuff, but you will get richer than your wildest dreams.
~ Louie Gohmert
I hope there will be some good news and some good profits, and people will realize we have a lot of outstanding executives, and a lot of companies that are doing a good job, and those are good companies to invest in.
~ Don Nickles
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
As we all know there have been fabulous women chief executives: Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir.
~ Margaret Hoover
The problem with my peers is they don't understand television. You have to work within the confines of what executives will allow you to put on TV. Otherwise, we've not done anything, we've not really struggled to change the culture at all.
~ Drew Pinsky
There is one more aspect to a true partnership that's worth mentioning: executives who hold themselves aloof from their associates, who won't listen to their associates when they have a problem, can never be true partners with them.
~ Sam Walton
Our corporate executives speculate with their shareholders' assets because they get big personal rewards when they win—and even if they lose, they are often bailed out with public funds by obedient politicians. We privatize profit and socialize risk. The
~ Edward O. Thorp
Our corporate executives speculate with their shareholders' assets because they get big personal rewards when they win—and even if they lose, they are often bailed out with public funds by obedient politicians. We privatize profit and socialize risk.
~ Edward O. Thorp
The executives claim that "market forces" determine their salary. However, as Moshe Adler, in his article "Overthrowing the Overpaid," points out, economists David Ricardo and Adam Smith, writing more than two hundred years ago, "concluded that what a person earns is determined not by what that person has produced but by that person's bargaining power.
~ Edward O. Thorp
Employees do not leave own job in the private company even after a couple of years mainly for two reasons. Either s/he is getting more than what s/he deserves as seen mostly in the career of the top level executives or s/he desires to switch over but no organization hires her/him as being observed largely in the work life of the middle position people and sometimes only it happens with the bottom or ground workforce.
~ Anuj Somany
Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.
~ Diablo Cody
Speech within the kingdom of Amazonia - run by its sovereign Jeff Bezos and his board of directors with help from the wise counsel and judgment of the company's executives - is not protected in the same way that speech is constitutionally protected in America's public spaces.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
When executives allegedly lie to the investing public about their company's performance and thereby harm the integrity of the market, they must be held accountable.
~ Audrey Strauss
In the normal process of evaluating the end of the season, I meet with key executives for thorough discussions and evaluations of all aspects of football operations.
~ Jeffrey Lurie
During the financial crisis, I worked with hundreds of executives who struggled as a result of their thoughts about job security. When their beliefs changed, so did their emotional experience - and they were then able to focus on the task at hand more effectively.
~ Andrew J. Bernstein
Lots of businesses talk about values, but in turbulent times, when they matter most, executives often forget to operationalize them.
~ Marc Benioff
Mughal success was the product of hard-driving, active rulership exercised by extremely capable rulers who acted as their own chief executives.
~ John F. Richards
Hooked up with the nazis were the manson family women, sandra good and linda "squeaky" froame. Sandra had been sentenced to fifteen years for threatening the lives of business executives and government officials, and froame was serving a life sentence for attempting to kill president gerald ford. They were like the Bobbsey twins and clear out of their minds.
~ Assata Shakur
Executives often wrongly equate "good value" with "low price." Instead, "good value" should mean outstanding value for the price.
~ Gary Hamel
I love all kinds of stories and movies, and I did work hard to get through to the creative community and studio executives that I could work in a number of different genres and tones.
~ Ron Howard