Executives Quotes

For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.

Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive.

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

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

If you help create the profits, you should be able to share in them, not just the executives at the top.

I didn't listen to executives.

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.

The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

The hackers who hacked into Sony have leaked the upcoming script for the new James Bond movie. Some of the executives said the news left them shaken but not stirred.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail.

It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.

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

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

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

When you are an executive, my friends, that is not leadership.

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.

I came to understand that the words executive and corporate never belong next to the word chef.

Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.

The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.

If more women would watch women's sports on TV it would urge [TV] executives to put more on.

Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.

A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.

Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.

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

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

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

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.

I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

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.

It’s funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.

I don't like to deal with studios. I don't like to have conversations with executives. I pitch to the studio, then never talk to them until the test screening.

Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.

Games were moved to New Year's Eve as part of a plan by college football executives where they want to create a tradition of watching football on New Year's Eve.

It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

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

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.

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

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.

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.

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.