Top 1200 Chief Executives Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Executives in Hollywood are missing a lot because they don't want to watch other cultures.

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

The only thing I find executives down about is the regulatory environment.

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

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

We as label executives, we have to know the limitations of the artists.

What great executives do is not magic. Their performance is made possible by specific, identifiable skills.

Life to me is the greatest of all games. The danger lies in treating it as a trivial game, a game to be taken lightly, and a game in which the rules don't matter much. The rules matter a great deal. The game has to be played fairly or it is no game at all. And even to win the game is not the chief end. The chief end is to win it honorably and splendidly.

I was really fortunate in my career where I always had executives who were very like-minded.

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

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

It's not often that you get a director, singing the praises of his executives.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.

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

In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.

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.

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

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

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.

No agency is better than its account executives.

Usually when you do a pilot, there's a moment where all of the executives get together and say thumbs up or down.

Great companies have been reduced by hiring executives that don't work out.

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

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

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

We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.

Executives are rarely comfortable speaking on the record, particularly in secretive Silicon Valley companies.

Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.

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

Everyone in the '80s grew up, and for a lot of the film executives, that's what they know and love.

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

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

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

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.

Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.

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

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

I find myself using the word 'executives' now.

The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for the lack of chicken. In the same way, the chief requisite for the history of science is intimate scientific knowledge; no amount of philosophic legerdemain can make up for its absence.

Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.

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

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

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

Many of my executives have worked with me since the beginning. I can be fair and decisive and encouraging as well as demanding.

My laptop helps me carry on my business functions and stay in touch with my executives when I'm abroad.

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

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

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

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

Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'

In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.

To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.

We have jobs that are in the pipeline, and I deal with all the executives, the big ones and the small ones. I have really gotten to know America.