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“More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining notonly in the routine tasks of industry but in executive responsibility. I include also the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner in the job and wages. Women constitute a part of our industrial achievement.”

Source: The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928

“In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one another are intricate and periodic; in fact, "galaxy" is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.”

Facts School President Term Sun Relation University Department Opposition Executives Bureaucracy Galaxy Dean Intricate Eclipse

Book:Teacher in America

Source: Teacher in America

“The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.”

Morality Executives Organs Immorality Pimp

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“Would movie moguls release a film portraying Adolph Hitler as a great benefactor of the Jews? Hardly. Would they release a movie if the black community found it to be highly disparaging? No way. You better believe these executives would also think long and hard before they released a movie offensive to American Indians, Muslims homosexuals or virtually any affinity group. Yet, to most movie industries a film which offends millions of Christians is fine and dandy.”

“Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by them. Its aim is to jolt us, not "into thinking," as in a Brechtian formulation, but specifically away from thought, into quasiautomatic action: "To us," as an executive at Coca-Cola puts it, "communication is message assimilation--the respondent must be shown to behave in some way that proves they [sic] have come to accept the message, not merely to have received it.”

Thinking Way Want Action Accepting Communication Prove Messages Aim Advertising Atmosphere Propaganda Behave Executives Assimilation Beholder Coca Cola

Book:Boxed in: The Culture of TV

Source: Boxed in: The Culture of TV

“During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive leadershipin industry. Must we always wait for war to give us opportunity? And must the pendulum always swing back in the busy world of work and workers during times of peace?”

“The most fearful phenomenon of these midcentury years is not the atom bomb; atomic energy does have its constructive possibilities.... The most fearful event of these times is the colossal expansion of the government of the United States and the constant increase of executive power within the government.”

“I made an executive decision in college when I learned how behind I was in the world of books, films, and music because of my rural upbringing. I really reduced the amount of time that sports took up in my life.I still have some Faulkner to get through.”

World Made Stills Book Film Sports Decision Behinds College Amount Music Is Executives Upbringing Film And Music

Author:Nick Offerman

“There is a certain thing that you have to just stick to the plan, stick to what you want to do, and you try to work with studios and executives that they get it.”

Want Trying Certain Plans Sticks Studios What You Want Executives

Author:Alfonso Cuaron

“Executive producers don't have to do anything. Nor do any kind of producers. They just sit around on deck chairs watching stuff, and if it gets cold, they leave. Actually I suppose as a producer you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.”

Ifs Kind Helping Problem Stuff Cold Involved Producers Chairs Executives Problem Solving Deck

Author:Russell Brand

“I know that I'm freer as a hip-hopper than as an executive. Even as a black man, I enjoy more freedom as a hip-hopper than as a black man. That, s controversial to say, but it's the truth.”

Knows Men Enjoy Black Hips Executives Controversial

Author:KRS-One

“I'm not an executive. I can do it, I have the mind for it, but there's a life that you have to lead, and you have to give up your creative freedom. That's what I don't want to give up.”

Want Giving Mind I Can Can Do Creative Giving Up Executives I Can Do It Creative Freedom

Author:KRS-One

“Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.”

Bigs Grows Lines Easier Marketing Budgets Executives

Author:Bill Gurley

“In real life, you can't get a job as an executive unless you have the educational background and the opportunity. Now the fact that you are not an executive is merely because of the social standing of life... Black people have a hard time getting anywhere. And those that do, are usually straight. In a ballroom, you can be anything you want.”

People Want Real Hard Facts Jobs Opportunity Social Black Standing Educational Real Life Backgrounds Hard Times Executives Black People Ballroom Educational Background

Author:Dorian Corey

“The corporate scandals are getting bigger and bigger. In a speech on Wall Street, President Bush spoke out on corporate responsibility, and he warned executives not to cook the books. Afterwards, Martha Stewart said the correct term was to saute the books.”

Said Book President Term Responsibility Streets Wall Speech Bigger Cooks Corporate Spokes Executives Scandal President Bush Corporate Responsibility

Author:Conan O'Brien

“All children should be welcomed into the world and protected by the law. As President, I would immediately repeal President Clinton's five executive orders that promote abortion. I support a human life bill that defines unborn children as persons under the 14th Amendment. I will vigorously defend the pro-life plank in the Republican platform.”

“We can achieve the utmost in economies by engineering knowledge; we can conquer new fields by research; we can build plants and machines that shall stand among the wonders of the world; but unless we put the right man in the right place-unless we make it possible for our workers and executives alike to enjoy a sense of satisfaction in their jobs, our efforts will have been in vain.”

“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.”

States Action Answers Levels Constitution Executives Objections Executive Power

Author:William J. Brennan

“I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again." (On leaving the Executive Office Building)”

Looks Behinds Doors Building Office Leaving Executives Miscellaneous Office Buildings

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The people wanted and demanded a Bill of Rights written into their Constitution. The amendments embodying the Bill of Rights were intended to curb all branches of the Federal Government in the fields touched by the amendments-Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.”

“What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole, including the wage earner, wage payer, wage spender and wage saver, i.e., the investor. If the sparkplug and self-starter get out of commission, the car will come to a standstill.”

Ifs Self Whole Ability Car Industry Including Enterprise Executives Investors Initiative Automobile Starters Private Enterprise Standstill Self Starter

Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine memory is necessarily a fine executive. But if he has the memory he has the first qualification, and if he has not the memory nothing else matters.”

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Author:Thomas A. Edison

“Talking things over has its place in an organization [but] so-called conferences are being grossly overdone. One executive stops at the desk of another to tell him, perhaps, about the wonderful score he made at golf on Saturday afternoon. This chin-chin immediately becomes a conference, and neither the office boy nor the telephone operator must disturb either gentleman. More idle gossip is indulged in at many business conferences these days than an old wives' sewing circle would be guilty of.”

“The more I move among workers and factories and other plants, the stronger I become convinced that it is advisable to have as [a company] president a practical man, preferably one who has risen from the very bottom of the ladder. Workmen, I find, have far more respect for such men than for collar-and-cuff executives knowing little or nothing about the different kinds of work which have to be done by the workers. Wherever circumstances call for placing a financier or lawyer or a papa's son at the head of a large organization, he should be made chairman or some other title, but not president.”

“After visiting several of America's most fashionable playgrounds, I have reached the conclusion that men who work hard enjoy life most. The men at such places can be divided into two classes, first, busy men of affairs ... and, second, rich loafers. I was impressed by the obvious enjoyment corporation heads and other important executives were deriving from their vacation activities.... The idle rich fellows, on the other hand, although indulging in exactly the same activities, palpably were bored.”

“Do too many executives still indulge in the short-sighted habit of issuing orders without taking the slightest pains to explain to those responsible for carrying them out the whyfor and wherefor of the orders? Where employees come in daily and hourly contact with the public, surely it is important that care be taken to fit them to reply intelligently to courteous questions. ""Because them are orders"" isn't a satisfying reply-even less satisfactory to the management than to the public.”

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Author:B. C. Forbes

“It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to their desks at headquarters and send out rigid instructions to those in charge of distant branches and offices. Because a man sits in a palatial office in New York or Chicago or Philadelphia or Detroit and draws a big salary, it does not necessarily follow that he knows better than the man on the spot what ought to be done.... Paul, Caesar, Napoleon did not merely sit at home and issue long-range instructions.”

“Whenever possible, I like to have the supreme head of a company show me over the works. It is extremely illuminating to note the attitude of workers towards their boss, and equally interesting to note the attitude towards the workers. It is tragic to notice how many chief executives of large concerns are absolutely unknown, even by sight, to the rank and file of their workers.”

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Author:B. C. Forbes

“Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital subject in a long letter to all his salesmen. He uses as his text a passage from Robinson Crusoe which included this: ""My Father bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and were not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind.”

“Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.”

People Thinking Knows Running Church Decision Office Hollywood South Connected Executives Chicago Mississippi Carolina Alabama South Carolina

Author:Steve Harvey

“Of one thing the investor can be certain: A large company's need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a damning sign of something basically wrong with the existing management - no matter how good the surface signs may have been as indicated by the most recent earnings statement.”

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Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't end with the women, or the pregnant women. It goes on up the line to the executive who has his bag searched in the airport.”

People Doe Ends Lines Poor Goes On Oppression Bags Executives Pregnant Poor People Airports Pregnant Women

Author:Florynce Kennedy

“People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club--any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.”

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Author:E. O. Wilson

“Researchers and biotech executives foresee the day when the effects of many catastrophic diseases can be reversed. The damaged brains of Alzheimer's disease patients may be restored. Severed spinal cords may be rejoined. Damaged organs may be rebuilt. Stem cells provide hope that this dream will become a reality.”

May Dream Reality Brain Effects Disease Patient Cells Executives Organs Stem Researchers Cords Alzheimer Alzheimer's Stem Cell Spinal Cord Biotech

Author:George Woolf

“One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a soundcurrency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.”

“What this means is that children, homemakers, executives, farmers, and long-living persons can all have high ego strength and good mental health if they possess the courage, humor, and flexibility of equilibrium between their rational and metaphoric minds.”

Ifs Mind Mean Children Persons Long Ego Mental Health Rational Executives Good Man Farmers Flexibility Equilibrium Homemaker Metaphoric

Author:Bob Samples

“The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.”

Problem Challenges Successful Solve Handle Remarkable Executives Successful Business Clip

Author:Zig Ziglar

“Over on the Democratic side, Martin O'Malley recently spoke about the need for Wall Street reform and said that he isn't running for president to be quote, 'wined and dined' by executives. Then Chris Christie said, 'And I am also not running to be wined.'”

Needs Said Running Sides President Streets Wall Democratic Reform Spokes Executives Christie

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“The Phoenix Project is a must read for business and IT executives struggling with the growing complexity of IT.”

Struggle Growing Projects Complexity Executives Phoenix

Author:Jim Whitehurst

“All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.”

Long Past Views Creativity Practice Industry Management Sacred Tired Legacy Executives

Author:Gary Hamel

“A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.”

Should Doe Eye Moving President Policy Mouths Bills Court Paint Supreme Extras Executives Territory Supreme Court Executive Power

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“The Executive is charged officially in the Departments under it with the disbursement of the public money, and is responsible for the faithful application of it to the purposes for which it is raised. The Legislature is the watchful guardian over the public purse. It is its duty to see that the disbursement has been honestly made.”

Has Beens Made Purpose Duty Responsible Raised Honestly Faithful Department Executives Application Guardian Purses Legislature Public Money

Book:James Monroe, 1758-1831: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: James Monroe, 1758-1831: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“...I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them-business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye.”

Two Eye Enemy Impossible Feet Modern I've Learned Executives Boss Guise

Book:The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

“The dirty little secret of what used to be known as Wall Street securities firms-Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns-was that every one of them funded their business in this way to varying degress, and every one of them was always just twenty-four hours away from a funding crisis. The key to day-to-day survival was the skill with which Wall Street executives managed their firms' ongoing reputation in the marketplace.”

“We can only live the changes we wish to see: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create. We must break the obsolete social and economic systems that divide the world between the over-privileged and the under-privileged. Each of us, whether government leader or protester, business executive or worker, professor or student, share a common guilt.”

“Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.”

Mean Night Order Passion Hard Work Findings Tasks Importance Harder Executives Weekend Really Mean Work Harder

Author:John Hagel

“I'm lucky. I don't have to produce the whole movie. What I've been doing is just coming up with ideas for movies. I write a concept, a treatment, an outline, and if I sell that to a studio, then someone else does the actual production and I go on to another project, although I keep the title executive producer.”

Ifs Writing Doe Ideas Whole Produce Goes On Lucky Projects Concepts Sells Productions Studios Producers Titles Treatment Executives Outlines

Author:Stan Lee

“If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.”

Ifs Firsts Action President Taken Office Let Me Barack Executives Illegal Unconstitutional

Author:Ted Cruz

“I just didn't wanna put the pressure on myself to be in there [Def Jam South] to work as an artist and to have the hat as the executive with other projects.”

Artist Projects Pressure South Hats Executives Jam

Author:DJ Khaled

“Of one thing the executive may be sure: that the majority want more of the good things of life, and if they can get them without undue personal effort, so much the better. So the executive naturally tends to promise material gain, contingent of course on his remaining in power. The impetus to personal rule is obvious.”

Ifs Want May Courses Effort One Thing Materials Promise Gains Majority Good Things Obvious Executives Presidency Impetus

Author:Felix Morley

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