Executives Quotes

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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership - it is practicing their understanding of leadership.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage this, you need all the ideas you can get.

I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.

I have to make a lot of decisions that aren't in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives, players.

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?

When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

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

Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.

And there's doctors and lawyers, And business executives, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.

I remember early in my career with Disney, which was a very strange time in the company - there were a couple of executives who were very supportive of me and kind of let me do my own thing.

The Hollywood executives are, like, ‘We’re not racist, we just have to pretend to be racists because we’re capitalists. We want to sell our movies in China (and) they don’t like Kevin Hart.’

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

I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.

We don't train executives, we find them. If a mountain stands up like Everest, you don't have to be a genius to figure out that it's a high mountain.

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

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.

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.

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.

The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.

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

I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.

At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.

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

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.

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

Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

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