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“Zuckerberg had the good sense to know both his own limitations and interests. He wanted an executive who would free him to do what he loved: code, and enhancing the Facebook platform.”

Knows Wanted Interest Limitation Code Executives Platforms Good Sense Zuckerberg

Author:Ken Auletta

“Unfortunately, too many executives believe the myths about trust. Myths like how trust is soft and is merely a social virtue. The reality is that trust is hard-edged and is an economic driver.”

Believe Hard Reality Social Virtue Economic Myth Executives Drivers

Author:Stephen Covey

“Executives need to understand the economic benefits of trust dividend, especially when the behavior is real, not artificially or superficially created as PR to manipulate trust.”

Needs Real Economic Behavior Benefits Executives Manipulate Dividends

Author:Stephen Covey

“All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.”

Thinking Has Beens Different Hard Done Film Term Stage Scripts Executives Conventional

Author:George Lucas

“I was never a nightclub manager or a hostess. I want to make that very clear. I was an executive at my club. I was a director of VIP operations, that's much different than a manager, that's much different than a waitress, it's different than, you know, a host - I was like an executive-level position”

Knows Want Different Levels Clear Position Directors Clubs Managers Operations Executives Host Waitress Nightclubs Hostesses Vip

Author:Rachel Uchitel

“It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.”

Ifs Ideas Stories Following Studios Executives

Author:Kevin Spacey

“'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not.”

Wealth Party Example Benefits Garden Profit Various Executives Domain Transfers Descendants American Writer Literary Works Public Domain

Author:Mark Helprin

“Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated teacher and scientist.”

“Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.”

Needs Should Style Management Employee Executives Ceo

Author:Keith Rabois

“I see top business schools working to bridge this gap [between academic research and business application] by respecting executive education, by having more mature students who proactively draw from faculty what they know they need, and by having faculty who are willing to leave their ivory towers for the murky world of business reality. Unfortunately, at other times, business professors have little or not interest or savvy about business issues.”

“The internal sexism within womanhood is very predominant in Hollywood, because we all want to be successful. There's a plug to it: You all have to be skinny! You all have to be pretty! You all have to be likable, because that's the formula that works. On an executive level. On a power level. And it's not always the same working with black people, because of the internalized racism. The colorism.”

People Want Black Levels Successful Racism Hollywood Being Successful Internals Executives Sexism Formulas Black People Womanhood Skinny Plugs

Author:Viola Davis

“The hardest thing for a chief executive to do is to tell someone that they don't have a job anymore.”

Jobs Hardest Chiefs Executives Hardest Thing Chief Executives

Author:Carly Fiorina

“The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much so that he is not aware of it; enhanced Executive power to the point of reducing Congress to innocuity; and enabled the central government to bribe the states, once independent units, into subservience. No kingship in the history of the world ever exercised more power than our Presidency, or had more of the people's wealth at its disposal.”

Source: Income Tax: Root of All Evil

“Executives run organizations. In business, we need executives who have clarity, people who are in touch with themselves. Then, in leadership and management positions, they can be good role models and leaders. The people I know who have really moved their organizations are scrupulous role models. They are so clear about honesty, integrity, openness, mutual self-respect, dignity for the individual, and creativity, that they don't deviate from these principles at all in their behavior.”

“Peter Drucker has pointed out that it is a manager's job to "do things right." It is an executive's job to make sure "the right things" get done. Even the most rigorous eco-efficient business paradigm does not challenge basic practices and methods: a shoe, building, factory, car, or shampoo can remain fundamentally ill-designed even as the materials and processes involved in its manufacture become more "efficient."”

Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

“The reason is still difficult to explain, but it is not complicated. That inner voice that will not be denied, once we learn to listen to it, had whispered since the beginning, "Business is not what your life is about. Founding VISA and being its chief executive officer is something you must do, but it's only preparatory."”

Stills Reason Life Is Difficult Voice Business Complicated Chiefs Executives Officers Denied Founding Inner Voice Visa Chief Executives

Book:Birth of the Chaordic Age

Source: Birth of the Chaordic Age

“I received a phone call from the chief executive of my principal sponsor [Marlboro], who actually told me that it would be in the interests of the sport if I started to lose races. Which, I mean, just blew my mind.”

Ifs Mind Mean Would Be Sports Interest Loses Race Phones Chiefs Executives Principal Phone Calls Sponsors Chief Executives

Author:Ron Dennis

“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.”

Ifs Long Stills Term Answers Company Clear Holy Benefits Concepts Long Term Executives Formulas Cows Senior Slaughter Matched Formula 1 Long Term Success

Author:Norbert Reithofer

“The great irony of executive compensation is, if you pay your employees more, you're gonna create more demand for your goods and services! Which is gonna lead to more executive compensation than if you pay your employees less and try to take all the cream off of the top.”

Ifs Trying Pay Demand Irony Employee Executives Goods Cream Compensation Goods And Services Executive Compensation

Author:Anthony Scaramucci

“Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.”

Firsts Philosophy Leadership Business Leader Four Profit Employee Executives Business Leaders First Things First Put First Things First

Author:Thomas Watson, Jr.

“A sister is the cure for swollen heads and ego trips. One may a star, a Chief Executive-famous and rich and beautiful. But one's sister has the family photo album. And a long, long memory. And a tendency to wink at one on Top Occasions.”

May Long Beautiful Stars Memories Rich Ego Albums Tendencies Cures Chiefs Occasions Executives Sisterhood Swollen Chief Executives Ego Trip Family Photo

Author:Pam Brown

“There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.”

Thinking Should Years Made Lasts Challenges Decision Results Policy Inspire Thousand Ten Built Proportion Executives Provoking Right Decision Morris

Author:William Morris

“The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so much upon an upright and skillful administration of justice, that the judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that.”

“A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for want of two essential properties, secrecy and dispatch.”

Want Wells Two Exercise Essentials Property Separation Branches Executives Representatives Qualified Secrecy Assembly Separation Of Powers Executive Power

Book:The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

“A question arises whether all the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judicial, shall be left in this body? I think a people cannot be long free, nor ever happy, whose government is in one Assembly.”

People Thinking Long Body Government Left Separation Arise Executives Assembly Judicial Separation Of Powers Judicial Power

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Either an executive can do his job or he can't.”

Jobs Can Do Business Executives

Author:Robert Heller

“No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.”

Effort Business Prove Executives

Author:Robert Heller

“The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.”

Men May Ends Government Law Political Exercise Executives Judicial Judicial Power

Book:The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

“I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services.”

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Author:Timothy Murphy

“Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule.”

Company Technology Significant Owners Executives Portions Propensity

Author:David Coleman

“I am committed against every thing which in my judgment, may weaken, endanger, or destroy (the Constitution) ... and especially against all extension of Executive power; and I am committed against any attempt to rule the free people of this country by the power and the patronage of the Government itself.”

People May Country Government Judgment Constitution Committed Executives Extensions Patronage Executive Power

Book:The works

Source: The works

“I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas "are" funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.”

Thinking Feels Whole Stories Asking Assuming Smell Executives Cheese Bananas Cheesy Swamps

Author:Joe Murray

“When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.”

Knows Feels Risk Tough Storm Good Times Executives Halls Animation Korea Had A Good Time

Author:Joe Murray

“There is no constitutional or legal requirement that the President shall take the oath of office in the presence of the People but there is so manifest an appropriateness in the public induction to office of the chief executive officer of the nation that from the beginning of the Government the people to whose service the official oath consecrates the officer, have been called to witness the solemn ceremonial”

People Has Beens Government Nations President Office Chiefs Witness Officials Executives Manifest Officers Requirements Solemn Oath Chief Executives Appropriateness Oath Of Office

Book:Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

“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.”

Hands Able Jobs Belief Results Focus Security Changed Emotional Tasks Crisis Financial Executives Financial Crisis Task At Hand

Author:Andrew Bernstein

“In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.”

Love Age Love Is Television Products Producers Advertising Executives This Day Temporary Avenues Unnatural Madison Madison Avenue Age Love

Book:The Fifth Vial

Source: The Fifth Vial

“The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.”

Literature Results Branches Executives Executive Branch

Author:Andrew Cohen

“Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives.”

Successful Chiefs Executives Chief Executives

Author:Scott Walker

“Don's Mancini father was an advertising executive and I think Don really grew up and all of that stayed in his head. Some of the really great slogans we came up with, over the years, the big advertising buzz-words that we had, Don created those. It's just kind of fun just thinking about what we both love about pop culture and applying it to Chucky film and any others.”

Thinking Years Kind Bigs Film Culture Father Fun Grew Grew Up Pops Advertising Executives Really Great Slogans Pop Culture Buzz

Author:David Kirschner

“Most of the drug CEOs I know, they're not themselves - they're what people want them to be. It's pretty obvious of the different drug executives. They're old white men, very buttoned up. They're appropriate, so to speak. I'm a little bit more irreverent, and I'm not going to change just because I have this job.”

People Knows Men Want Littles Different Jobs Speak Bits White Drug Little Bit Obvious Appropriate Executives Ceo White Man Irreverent

Author:Martin Shkreli

“What's crucial about being an executive producer is that you stay in the loop, information-wise. They have to share all their major decisions with you.”

Decision Wise Share Information Majors Producers Executives Crucial Loops

Author:Emma Donoghue

“Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.”

Knows Want Made Self Running Film Studios Executives Censoring Gauntlet

Author:Terry Gilliam

“It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is the legislative branch. Logic and reason are like jazz solos. The bass player is the judicial branch. One our greatest ever is Milt Hinton, and his nickname is "The Judge."”

Reason Player Judging Balance Logic Jazz Checks Branches Executives Solo Orchestra Bass Judicial Nicknames Bass Players Executive Branch Legislative Branch Judicial Branch

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“And often when things turn to TV series there are so many different people with different agendas that things can morph. And so, you know, that was why having the executive producer title was important to me because even if I was the star and I had a concern, you know, that concern would only go so far. But having the title of executive producer actually makes them have to actually listen to me complain.”

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Author:Debra Messing

“The do-not-call registry is still being challenged in court. Yet, the conclusions of the American people, the legislative branch, and the executive branch are beyond question.”

People Stills Court Conclusion Branches Executives Executive Branch Legislative Branch

Author:George W. Bush

“In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the meaning of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”

“"The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength."”

Men Firsts Doe Can Do Challenges Decision Position Weakness Areas Bases Encounters Executives Staffing

Author:Peter Drucker

“... a meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive.”

Hands Executives Subordinates

Author:John Leo

“Show me an executive that works long hard hours and I'll show you a bad executive.”

Long Hard Shows Hours Executives Show Me

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Being a visionary leader is not about giving speeches and inspiring the troops. How I spend my day is pretty much the same as how any executive spends his day. Being a visionary leader is about solving day-to-day problems with my vision in mind.”

Giving Mind Problem Leader Vision Speech Executives Troops Day To Day Visionaries Visionary Leaders

Author:Bill O'Brien

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