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“The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related reasons.”

Firsts Reason Done Research First Time Customers Related Executives Formal Defects Percentages

Author:Leonard L. Berry

“In most agencies, account executives outnumber the copywriters two to one. If you were a dairy farmer, would you employ twice as many milkers as you had cows?”

Ifs Two Accounts Agency Executives Farmers Cows Dairy

Author:David Ogilvy

“We have seen that the tendency of republican governments is to an aggrandizement of the legislative at the expense of the other departments. The appeals to the people, therefore, would usually be made by the executive and judiciary departments.”

People Made Government Republican Tendencies Appeals Department Executives Expenses Judiciary Republican Government

Book:The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

“Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.”

Trying Long Running Lines Levels Activity Lows Managers Programming Executives Long Runs Assembly Programmers Low Level Inhumane Assembly Line

Author:Bjarne Stroustrup

“The responsibility of the executive is (1) to create and maintain a sense of purpose and moral code for the organization; (2) to establish systems of formal and informal communication; and (3) to ensure the willingness of people to cooperate.”

People Purpose Responsibility Moral Communication Organization Code Executives Willingness Formal Moral Code

Author:Chester Barnard

“To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with ther purest motives, is something incorrect....No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.”

Men Trying Persons Whole Government Acting Information Duty Unions Motive Executives Resorts Right Place Best Person Best Of Me Right Man

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“So when this opportunity came up through Elisabeth Murdoch and her company Shine, to be an executive producer and actually be part of the show, I liked the idea because I like the word mentor. I don't want to judge someone. I like sharing my knowledge with my girls, and anything they ask me I'll try to do to help them. Any of my real friends who know me, know that's how I really am.”

Knows Want Trying Ideas Real Helping Shows Girl Asks Opportunity Company Judging Shining Producers Ask Me Executives Mentor Know Me Real Friends My Girl

Author:Naomi Campbell

“Those titles, Executive Producer or actor, are unimportant. I always try to approach my role as an artist. The first thing you want to do, that you attempt to do as an artist, is to have some sort of input into the material that you are working on. That is how my process begins; I say to myself: "I want to do this kind of work or I want to do that kind of work."”

Want Trying Firsts Kind Artist Actors Process Roles Materials Approach Producers Titles Executives Unimportant Input

Author:Danny Glover

“Church, the spiritual power, and the executive power are working today united in a system that confronts people. This alliance or cooperation between the spiritual power and the executive power, between the church and the government, unfortunately takes away the Church's basic mission. It takes away their right to speak on moral or ethical subjects.”

People Government Today Spiritual Speak Church United Moral Subjects Missions Executives Ethical Cooperation Alliances Spiritual Power Executive Power

Author:Andrey Zvyagintsev

“In my experience, good executives don't make mistakes.”

Mistake Making Mistakes Executives

Author:Ray Kroc

“The founding American generations did something that almost no others have ever done. They read the fine print! They taught their children to read bills, laws, court cases, legislative debates, executive decrees, and bureaucratic policies. They read them in schoolrooms and at home....They said they would consider their children uneducated if they didn't read such things.”

Ifs Children Said Done Home Law Cases Generations Policy Taught Fine Bills Court Debate Executives Print They Said Founding Decree Uneducated Law Courts Court Cases Fine Print

Author:Oliver DeMille

“Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.”

Care Executives Time Management Making Time Irreplaceable Take Nothing For Granted Tender Loving Care

Author:Peter Drucker

“Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.”

Whole Government Strong Source Taxes Army Court Heavy Executives Bureaucracy Identical Source Of Life Executive Power Strong Government

Book:The thought of Karl Marx: an introduction

Source: The thought of Karl Marx: an introduction

“We know that if you have $20 million, it's better to buy a van Gough print than it is buy an executive jet, from the point of view of the environment. But when you start getting down, it's like the recycling question: What are things we can really afford to do, and how much pleasure do we get out of them? We haven't even started to have that discussion, and it's getting awfully late.”

Ifs Knows Pleasure Views Millions Environment Havens Late Point Of View Discussion Executives Print Vans Jet Recycling

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“One of the principal factors fueling the proliferation of the abuse of secrecy and sensitive but unclassifieds is the administration's adherence to the unitary executive principal. This administration more than any of its predecessors believes that it is its responsibility to collect power onto itself in the executive office when it comes to the conduct of war, foreign policy, the management of agencies and departments, regulations, etc.”

“There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely into the promotion of the unitary executive. That's one factor.”

Way Play Secret Critics Factors Faster Executives Promotion

Author:Ted Gup

“I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives.”

People Men Executives Representatives Parliament

Author:Martin Schulz

“I hope that the American public understands that we have three levels of government. We have the (unintelligible) the executive, but there's legislative and the judicial, and the legislative obviously need to be just doing their job.”

Needs Government Jobs Three Levels Executives Judicial

Author:Stockard Channing

“European affairs are no longer reserved for the executive.”

Affair Executives Reserved

Author:Udo Di Fabio

“I don't see a lot of studio executives caring at all about what the culture is telling us. They think they make the culture. They're not out taking the temperature of things and using the results of whatever sort of cultural surveying they're doing to make movies. They're interested in doing things that people are already comfortable with, and taking those properties and filling them.”

People Thinking Culture Results Comfortable Property Studios Caring Executives Filling Temperature

Author:Wesley Morris

“I and others on FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with selection of South Africa as host nation.”

Nations Accepting South Executives Host South Africa Committees Selection Bribe Conjunctions Fifa

Author:Bryan Swanson

“Paramount Pictures is a perfect partner for Electric Entertainment, with the most stable group of executives in Hollywood and unparalleled global promotion and distribution reach.”

Perfect Groups Hollywood Entertainment Partners Executives Stable Electric Distribution Promotion Paramount Perfect Partner

Author:Dean Devlin

“Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.”

Body Action Business Economic Depression Wounds Producers Cells Consumers Executives Healed Economic Depression

Book:Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964; chronology-documents-bibliographical aids

Source: Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964; chronology-documents-bibliographical aids

“Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Meyer have already accomplished more than most. I think the sky is the limit for them professionally. If they can inspire more women to "lean in," as Sandberg so famously describes it - to pursue a career and a family - that would be an incredible accomplishment. If they can, by their example as hands on mothers and high powered executives, show young women that they don't need to leave the workplace when they have children, they will be superheroes.”

“NBC executives say that if Donald Trump does run for president, they will not renew The Apprentice. So some good may come out of this.”

Ifs May Doe Running President Trump Executives Apprentice Nbc

Author:Conan O'Brien

“The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise these powers in person, and their inaptitude to exercise them, induce them to appoint special organs to declare their legislative will, to judge and to execute it. It is the will of the nation which makes the law obligatory.”

Persons Whole Body Law Nations Special Judging Exercise Meetings Executives Organs Sovereign Inconvenience Judiciary Executive Power

Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson

“The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The Legislative it has given completely to the Senate and House of Representatives. It has declared that the Executive powers shall be vested in the President, submitting special articles of it to a negative by the Senate, and it has vested the Judiciary power in the courts of justice, with certain exceptions also in favor of the Senate.”

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state

“I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment.”

Duty Protect Branches Executives Encroachment Executive Branch

Author:George W. Bush

“The Carlyle Group is the most politically connected investment firm in the world. The company has mastered the art of influence peddling on a global scale, hiring executives and consultants ranging from Republican power broker James Baker and former president George Herbert Walker Bush to foreign leaders like former British prime minister John Major and former Philippine president Fidel Ramos.”

“Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.”

People Important Decision Capacity Performances Organization Determine Executives

Book:The Frontiers of Management

Source: The Frontiers of Management

“Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.”

Years Has Beens Important Effort Five Elements Smart Five Years Frustration Abandon Executives Timing Recipes

Author:Peter Drucker

“I'm going to ask the three executives here to raise their hand if they flew here commercial. Let the record show no hands went up. Second, I'm going to ask you to raise your hand if you're planning to sell your jet in place now and fly back commercial. Let the record show no hands went up.”

Ifs Shows Hands Three Asks Records Raises Sells Planning Executives Flew Jet

Author:Brad Sherman

“I do not mean to suggest for a moment that all it takes to be a top executive is a custom-tailored European suit. You also need the correct shirt and tie.”

Needs Mean Moments Suits Shirts Ties Executives Customs T Shirt Suits You Tailored

Book:Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week

Source: Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week

“The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle.”

Would Be Form Growth President Average Vices Boat Executives Desks Vice President Fungi Barnacles

Author:Fred Allen

“I agree with Marco [Rubio] that we can't afford another four years like the last eight years that we've had under [Barack] Obama, for sure. That we concur on. I think we need someone with proven executive leadership to be able to make that case to the American people.”

People Thinking Needs Years Able Lasts Cases Four Agree Eight Barack Executives Four Years Proven Marcos Concur

Author:Jeb Bush

“I believe that I have the executive experience and the ideas and the proven record to fix things.”

Believe Ideas I Believe Records Executives Proven

Author:Jeb Bush

“I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students.”

Action Order Opportunity Students Models African American Executives Replaced Hispanic Affirmative Action Affirmative Executive Orders

Author:Jeb Bush

“People don't tune in to watch network executives' decisions. They don't tune in to watch writers' decisions. They tune in to watch people that they like.”

People Decision Watches Tunes Executives

Author:Liz Brixius

“A "showrunner" as a position is a relatively new thing. It used to be the executive producer. That's not true anymore. Now it's evolved into this model where people look to showrunners and say, that guy is that show. It's just become a lot more interesting to know the showrunner and to get a sense of that person.”

People Knows Looks Persons Shows Used Guy Interesting Position Models Producers Used To Be Executives New Things That Guy

Author:Matt Nix

“I think there's an element to this business that writers especially are overlooked in many ways and this made everybody kind of look at us differently. I do think that an interesting thing happened during it, which was being on these picket lines and looking at the huge amount of executives coming and going that you realize don't really add much to the equation.”

Thinking Way Looks Kind Made Realizing Lines Interesting Happened Huge Amount Elements Add Things Happen Executives Equations Interesting Things Overlooked

Author:Edward Allen Bernero

“We have to separate here the church in its broad sense. We have Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox churches. The Catholic church is a corporation like a chief executive. A fairly homogenous operation. Today its attitude toward anti-Semitism is much more severe than it's ever been. The Catholic Church today is much less the problem than the other groups.”

“The difficult notes are when they say, "And this is how we want you to fix it . . ." Just tell me what the problem is. Just tell me what the issue is, and I'll go off an fix it. It's usually when executives get to a place where they're trying to fix the problem for you that you have issues”

Want Trying Problem Difficult Issues Notes Executives

Author:Ronald D. Moore

“Now I know that if I'm in a fight or a big argument with executives or the studio or whoever, and it's getting to a point where it's starting to get bad, I don't have to have the fear of, "Am I strong enough to see this through? Would I really make a stand here? Would I really quit over this issue?" And I know in my heart that there is a place where I would walk away. I don't have to make it about my ego. I don't have to make it about whether I'm being strong enough or tough enough.”

Ifs Knows Heart Enough Bigs Fighting Strong Walks Issues My Heart Ego Tough Argument Starting Studios Quitting Executives Strong Enough

Author:Ronald D. Moore

“It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue.”

Faces Issues Office Executives Backwards Fledglings

Book:Treadmill to Oblivion

Source: Treadmill to Oblivion

“In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”

Source: The Writings of James Madison: 1787. The journal of the Constitutional convention

“We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.”

Knows Men Giving Should Long War Country Matter America Given Meditation Position He Man Murder Crisis Prepared Noble Excellent Each Day Executives Filling Times Of Crisis

Book:Hemingway on War

Source: Hemingway on War

“The best leaders are apt to be found among those executives who have a strong component of unorthodoxy in their character. Instead of resisting innovation, they symbolize it.”

Character Found Strong Leader Innovation Executives Components Resisting Best Leader

Author:David Ogilvy

“My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.”

Trying Enough Whole Jobs Team Executives Good Enough Successors

Author:Steve Jobs

“Women administer the home. They set the rules, enforce them, mete out justice for violations. Thus, like Congress, they legislate; like the Executive, they administer; like the courts, they interpret the rules. It is an ideal experience for politics.”

Home Justice Ideals Court Congress Executives Violation

Author:Margaret Chase Smith

“Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.”

Years Jobs Law Results Numbers Half Successful Five Produce Decades Five Years Executives

Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

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