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“To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“I moved to Louisiana to become the executive Chef at Commander's Place. And I must say I had some encouragement from friends such as Ella Brennan, the queen of the New Orleans's culinary set, and others. This was very flattering to a young man with a dream. I was only 26 years old.”

Men Years Dream Young Encouragement Moved Queens Young Man Executives Culinary Chef New Orleans Commanders Flattering Louisiana

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.”

“The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of them, it must be manifest, are of dubious wisdom and even more dubious honesty. Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle...”

“Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.”

Producers Executives Rough Diamond Diamond In The Rough

Author:Babyface

“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.”

Has Beens Television Hollywood Seasons Winter Executives Perpetual Harbinger

Author:Diablo Cody

“Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in upon us, he must above all be the chief executive in every sense of the word.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.”

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Book:Short Stories And Sketches (Annotated Edition)

Source: Short Stories And Sketches (Annotated Edition)

“If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.”

Ifs Believe Guy Class Building Ten Block Suits Corporations Executives Rough Pins Make Believe Kindergarten Building Blocks

Author:Lee Iacocca

“I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.”

Years Littles Art Fame Directors Claims Magazines Greek Executives Editors Accents Art Director

Author:Jane Haddam

“So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not.”

Law Answers Responsibility Activity Corporate Executives

Book:There's no such thing as a free lunch

Source: There's no such thing as a free lunch

“The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the development of civilization, but such leaders appear sporadically, by chance. They do not always appear when they are most needed. The great executives have given inspiration and push to the advancement of human society, but it is the legislator who has given stability and continuity to that slow and painful progress.”

“The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian.”

Ifs Shows Problem Black Boys Television Blue Executives Blonde Top Gear Presenter Blue Eyed

Author:Jeremy Clarkson

“I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.”

Minutes Producers Executives Host Accused

Author:Stephen Colbert

“I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me.”

Left Company Records Executives Record Companies

Author:Ornette Coleman

“Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.”

May Hard Helping Work Executives Subordinates

Book:Abundance for What?

Source: Abundance for What?

“Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.”

Business Pay Four Concerned Profit Executives Prestige Shareholders Perks

Author:T. Boone Pickens

“I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.”

Knows Age Dark Executives Dark Ages

Author:Connie Chung

“Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.”

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Author:Dylan McDermott

“If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.”

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Author:Daniel Gilbert

“Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.”

“The classic problem as an entrepreneur is that they have a hard time delegating. But that's really crazy. Recruiting other executives is critical, so is dealing with customers and dealing with regulators. Those are functions that only the top founders can do.”

Hard Problem Can Do Crazy Function Entrepreneur Critical Customers Classic Hard Times Executives Founders Regulators

Author:Robert Pozen

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

Art Stars Industry Sells Tired Executives Mega

Author:Aloe Blacc

“Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.”

People Real Able Leader Position Demand Valuable Executives Visionaries Communicators Future Leaders Visionary Leaders Visionary Leadership

Author:Anita Borg

“I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.”

Asks Responsibility Accepting Performances Chiefs Executives Judged Chief Executives

Author:Jane Byrne

“I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.”

Thinking Stills Names Studios Executives Suspects Think Of Me

Author:Chris Cooper

“In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.”

Winning Branches Executives Senate Executive Branch Landslides Whiskers

Book:Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President

Source: Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President

“The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.”

Government Force Police Independent Executives Police Force

Author:P. Chidambaram

“Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.”

Mean Doe Two Political Answers Exercise Office Police Independent London Executives Mayors Commissioners

Author:P. Chidambaram

“I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans.”

People World Want Jobs Felt Decision Direct Producers Executives Counting Beans Best Job

Author:Robbie Coltraine

“I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Years Book Stories Deals Successful Records Becoming Understood Notes Crafts Executives Rejected Songwriters Publishers High Notes

Author:Kara DioGuardi

“Well, one of the things a lot of Americans don't know, when Mitt Romney is nominated a few days from now, he will be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, who had run a university and had run the allied war effort. That's actually a big deal.”

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Author:Artur Davis

“Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.”

People Ifs Country Sometimes Would Be Artist Next President Focus Tasks Fundamentals Executives Cleaning Romney Fixing Resumes Turnaround Fixing Things

Author:Artur Davis

“But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes.”

Ifs Reading Interesting Cutting Easier Directors Notes Finals Studios Executives Interesting Things

Author:Griffin Dunne

“And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.”

Knows Giving Waiting Voice Opinion Focus Groups Hollywood Scripts Executives Polls Consensus Cabinets Dynamics Saying Nothing Opinion Polls Focus Groups

Author:Joe Eszterhas

“We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.”

Branches Executives Affected Amendments Governors Executive Branch Constitutional Amendments

Author:John Engler

“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.”

Kids Taken Anxiety Stress Former Executives Stress And Anxiety

Author:Ana Gasteyer

“It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.”

Law President Principles Function Executives Representing

Book:The Revolution was

Source: The Revolution was

“Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.”

Law Political Father Danger Loyalty Executives Executive Power Law Making

Book:The Revolution was

Source: The Revolution was

“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.”

Bigs Social Levels Company Areas Executives Activist Ceo High Level Big Companies

Author:Jerry Greenfield

“Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius.”

Matter Facts Position Genius Executives Smooth Find Me Egotism

Author:Jim Croce

“There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.”

Firsts Rate Satisfaction Credit Executives Drivers Truck Truck Driver

Author:B. C. Forbes

“In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not the executive department. ... The trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man.”

Men War Would Be Found Constitution Temptation Department Executives One Man Legislature Clauses

Book:The Federalist: On the New Constitution

Source: The Federalist: On the New Constitution

“I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.”

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Author:Gerald R. Ford

“My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.”

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Author:Sue Grafton

“There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.”

Trying Moments Young Stuff Rooms Havens Television Originals Heavy Guarantees Executives

Author:Terry Gilliam

“TARP is funded by taxpayers, so there are many rules about how that money can and can't be used. The result: GM spends an awful lot of time checking in with the people who administer TARP over everything from hiring to executive compensation and management. For a global company, that adds up to a lot of distraction.”

People Used Results Company Management Add Awful Executives Distraction Compensation Taxpayers Hiring Tarp Executive Compensation

Author:Edward Whitacre, Jr.

“Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.”

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Author:David E. Kelley

“I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.”

Different Film Difficult Opinion Studios Executives

Author:Keira Knightley

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