“When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.” PeopleTwoThreeAnswersSixSevenStudiosProducersExecutivesCommittees Author:Thomas Lennon
“I believe that if you go and ask a chief executive of a Goldman Sachs or a BP, and they answer you honestly they want monopolies, they want government subsidies, they want preferences - they're not interested in free markets.” IfsWantBelieveGovernmentAsksI BelieveAnswersHonestlyChiefsExecutivesNot InterestedPreferenceFree MarketMonopolySubsidiesChief ExecutivesGoldman Sachs Author:Ian Bremmer
“To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people between the player and a 'yes,' the more powerful he is.” PeopleBigsRememberAnswersPowerfulPowerPlayerOfficeHollywoodDistanceSizeTitlesReportsExecutivesFewerClosestUnits Author:Lynda Obst
“Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer.” SometimesHelpingUsedAnswersWonderMillionsEvidenceDollarsLifestyleMotiveExecutivesFraudCheatHabitualGluttonyJurorsLavish Lifestyle Author:Alex Berenson
“More fundamentally, however, the answer to petitioners' objection is that there can be no impairment of executive power, whether on the state or federal level, where actions pursuant to that power are impermissible under the Constitution. Where there is no power, there can be no impairment of power.” StatesActionAnswersLevelsConstitutionExecutivesObjectionsExecutive Power Author:William J. Brennan
“I have told our senior executives that I will slaughter holy cows if it benefits the company's long-term success. When we asked ourselves whether Formula 1 still matched the concept of a sustainable company, the clear answer was no.” IfsLongStillsTermAnswersCompanyClearHolyBenefitsConceptsLong TermExecutivesFormulasCowsSeniorSlaughterMatchedFormula 1Long Term Success Author:Norbert Reithofer