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“The life expectancy in Hong Kong is among the highest in the world. You can come to only one conclusion: we have the most environmentally friendly place for people, for executives, for Hong Kong people to live.”

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Author:Donald Tsang

“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.”

People Bigs Remember Answers Powerful Power Player Office Hollywood Distance Size Titles Reports Executives Fewer Closest Units

Author:Lynda Obst

“Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but not writers, workers but not managers, bookkeepers but not promoters.”

Industry Mass Tasks Doctors Workers Managers Executives Sexism Nurse Household Secretary Researchers Promoters Bookkeepers

Book:Essays in feminism

Source: Essays in feminism

“I don't pretend to be an expert on intellectual property law, but I do know one thing. If a music industry executive claims I should agree with their agenda because it will make me more money, I put my hand on my walletand check it after they leave, just to make sure nothing's missing.”

Ifs Knows Should Hands Law One Thing Missing Industry Intellectual Claims Agree Property Checks Experts Agendas Executives More Money Music Industry Intellectual Property

Author:Janis Ian

“The economy is very different in the world that we're living in. And I think Americans are looking for executive leadership that actually has some experience of creating jobs.”

Thinking World Different Jobs Economy Creating Executives Creating Jobs

Author:Rick Perry

“I've got a pen, and I've got a phone, and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive action. I've got a pen to talk executive actions where congress won't. Where congress isn't acting, I'll act on my own. I have got a pen and I got a phone. And that is all I need.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“When other presidents used the executive pen, they used to it for things like should we lower the flag at half mast for someone who died and things like that. When President Obama uses it, he changes the way America does business.”

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Author:Eric Bolling

“American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that.”

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Author:Eric Bolling

“If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage of our social evolution, with mixing the casts. It may not be a question of race so much as class. You would rarely find a black man in a high executive position where he was swinging his weight around.”

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Author:Howard Schultz

“What's going to happen is that county council and the county executive will be able to blame the judge. I think that's what's going to happen -- they want to blame the judge for reassessment. That's not leadership, that's hiding.”

Thinking Want Happens Able Judging Blame Executives Hiding Council County

Author:Robert S. Strauss

“Question Period is not part of the legislative process,and has nothing to do with it. It is a means of monitoring the Executive that the Government cannot evade.”

Mean Government Process Periods Executives Monitoring Legislative Process

Author:John Allen Fraser

“I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut the gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities, with truth-diamond truth; and God is my 'right hand man'.”

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Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.”

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Author:Andrew Stanton

“If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?”

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Author:Eric Idle

“Im very excited to work with everybody on The Bridge - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show is really good. Im very lucky to be a part of it.”

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Author:Brian Van Holt

“When our executive producer, Julie Plec, told me I was going to become a hybrid I got really excited. Because theres a lot of responsibility that comes with that, especially in our world of The Vampire Diaries where Tyler is the first successful hybrid thats made.”

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Author:Michael Trevino

“I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.”

Hard My Own Path Successful Driven Hard Times Executives Lanes

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.”

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Author:Charles Krauthammer

“It is always amazing to see how wide a spectrum of results can be obtained from replicating an identical negotiation with different principal actors; it makes no difference whether there subjects are inexperienced or whether they are senior executives and young presidents of business firms. That is an important lesson to be learned here.”

Source: The Art and Science of Negotiation

“In Hollywood, the ... basic freedom of being able to choose between alternatives is absent. The gifted people who have the capacity for choice cannot exercise it; the executives who technically have the freedom of choice do not actually have it, because they usually lack the knowledge and imagination necessary for making such a choice.”

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Author:Hortense Powdermaker

“For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action on behalf of vested interests. ... The lobby was a creature of darkness. It worked behind closed doors and whispered in corners. This ancient industry was one form of invisible government.”

“We waited for Congress to act. They couldn't act on the issue. So I just went ahead and signed an executive order which will unleash - [applause] - which says the federal agencies will not discriminate against faith-based programs. They ought to welcome the armies of compassion as opposed to turning them away.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. During a happy period (A.D. 98-180) of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

“I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive.”

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Author:Rebekah Brooks

“Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.”

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Author:Robert H. Jackson

“A talented executive would be somebody who knows how to surround themselves with a lot of people that will make him look good. You could say that about a politician or you could say that about a head of a major corporation or what have you. The people you surround yourself with it's very important.”

People Knows Looks Important Would Be Know How Politician Majors Corporations Executives Surround Surround Yourself

Author:Clint Eastwood

“Over the weekend, former Enron executives Jeffrey Skilling and Rebecca Carter married each other during a huge ceremony in Houston. The happy couple is planning to honeymoon for three weeks in front of Congress.”

Three Week Fronts Huge Couple Married Congress Planning Former Executives Weekend Ceremony Carter Houston Honeymoon Enron Rebecca Happy Couple

Author:Conan O'Brien

“In the Enron scandal, whistleblower Sherron Watkins is now calling herself Enron Brokovitch. She testified Ken Lay was duped by the other executives. Oh, yeah. When is the last time you got duped and made $100 million?”

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Author:Jay Leno

“The single most remarkable (and revealing) fact of the Obama presidency may very well be the lack of a single prosecution of Wall Street executives for the massive fraud that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis.”

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Author:Glenn Greenwald

“The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.”

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Author:Robert Zoellick

“Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.”

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Author:Aaron Klein

“I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 2001. That didn't play well here at Ford, but I thought it was an important signal to send internally, that these were the kind of issues we needed to be grappling with.”

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Author:Bill Ford

“We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.”

Should Wells Use Decision Teach Students Tools Experiments Data Executives

Author:Dan Ariely

“I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.”

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Author:Ben Horowitz

“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.”

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Author:Alex Berenson

“Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate.”

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Author:Michael De Luca

“For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into Gods story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played.”

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Author:Miroslav Volf

“I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mom and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently.”

Want Looks Done Bigs Wish Wife Mom Balance Executives Great Mom Great Wife

Author:Angela Ahrendts

“When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, strategic partnerships, executive team, and relationships with every last constituency.”

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Author:Michael J. Saylor

“I suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that people laugh in very different places. I can't control it.”

People Ifs I Can Different Laughing Comedy Studios Executives Different Place

Author:Noah Baumbach

“Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.”

World Church Population Aliens Executives Ireland Starving Aristocracy

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“This bill attempts to make sure that President Clinton is not allowed to do by Executive Order what Congress has declined to enact in the past two congressional sessions namely, to treat homosexuals as a special class protected under various titles of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”

“Many people in America throw the term "fascism" around, particularly for Middle-Eastern terrorists, but in fact what fascism really is is a close alliance between a unitary executive and a state and large corporations and a state.”

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Author:David Foster Wallace

“For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more visible statement than the president's in the annual report. Ditto interiors, particularly of offices and sometimes, dramatically, in plants. For solvent businesses, support of community cultural undertakings in music, drama, dance creates great goodwill. Also, the existence of such activities is often important to the executives and their families that companies want to keep or attract to keep.”

“The top people of the biggest companies are, surprisingly, often the nicest ones in their company I'm not sure, though, if they got there because they were good guys or that they're now good guys because they can afford to be.”

People Ifs Guy Company Not Sure Executives Good Guy

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes.”

Should Cases Executives Hopeless Saying No

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.”

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Author:Malcolm Forbes

“It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to an entertainment bureau. No occasion is too trivial for its promoters to invite them to attend and deliver an address.”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge

“If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.”

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Author:William Feather

“Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power.”

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Book:James Madison's

Source: James Madison's

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