Top 1200 Chief Executives Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Corporate executives often buy or sell shares in their companies, and stocks rarely rise or fall significantly when those transactions are reported.

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

I look forward to partnering with campus executives, administrators, coaches and student-athletes to enhance the intercollegiate athletics experience.

As commissioner, you have to have a great relationship with your players but also to the upper executives: you gotta make sure their mandates are all on target and in line.

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've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.

In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.

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

I want to see more companies do profit-sharing. If you help create the profits, you should be able to share in them, not just the executives at the top.

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.

With a global society hungry for luxury, distribution and supply chains are now as important for executives as a hands-on feel for products.

On two occasions, utility executives I'd never met had looked at me and said, 'I thought you'd be bigger!' In a way, I took that as a compliment!

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.

Without question, CEOs, executives and employees in companies in the United States and around the world have rallied to face the challenge of a social media marketplace.

Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.

Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for socially irresponsible behavior.

Clearly [Donald] Trump likes the way business executives and generals think and talk much more than policy professionals.

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

While some entertainment executives understand the power of having someone else speak for you, most Hollywood publicists don't.

If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life. It is not a matter of distractions, nor even of mere pleasurable sensations. There may be an appearance of great prosperity with incurable sadness hidden at the heart, as there is an outward peace which is only a well-masked despair. The way to happiness is indeed harder than the way to success; for its chief enemies entrench themselves within the soul.

A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.

Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation. Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again. Odd: If there's something we want so bad in this life but we can't have it, maybe we could get it the next time around. Chief Porter: Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn.

Executives don't burn out and leave when they feel deep satisfaction. They don't create the human detritus that disgruntled managers do.

The Bush Administration, and particularly Bush's chief political strategist and Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, have been expert in both galvanizing and mobilizing the fears and resentments of people. A good part of their politics consists of being against others who are defined in stereotypical terms. These others don't, in actual reality, exist. The so-called Democratic elitists, for example, are a stereotype who they can hate. Anyone who watches Fox News or listens to Rush Limbaugh knows that this hatred of the other is at the core of their politics.

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

When executives allegedly lie to the investing public about their company's performance and thereby harm the integrity of the market, they must be held accountable.

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

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

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

I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.

We can no more condone the wastefulness of self-serving company executives than we can the sacrifice of the lives of our citizens in a senseless war.

Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English.

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.

You know you're getting older when the record executives start getting younger.

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.

It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life.

There are networks and executives who are willing to take risks on vastly different material, and as an actor, there are some really juicy roles to sink your teeth into.

Every time my manager approached big network executives or even cable, they told him I was too dangerous. They couldn't trust me.

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.

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.

No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument - the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American. And nobody will ever say "Heil" to him, nor will they call him "Führer" or "Duce." But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of "O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!"

Executives need ample flexibility to respond to the market. That means both reducing costs and increasing innovation.

Companies buy customers when they cannot win new business on their own. They merge when their executives do not have a better idea of what to do.

What I learned was it does not matter how much support you have in the boardroom, from the directors, the executives: you have to get results, and you have to win.

As alleged, the most senior executives at Brixmor engaged in a years-long scheme to cook the books and deceive the investing public.

Nobody is forcing anybody who is uncomfortable with the terms of service to use Facebook. Executives point out that Internet users have choices on the Web.

Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.

After coming toward the completion of Queen Sugar,' I had the opportunity to speak with the executives and head writers at Days of our Lives.'

When employees join executives in truly owning the responsibility for business success, an exciting new sense of teamwork takes hold.

In the normal process of evaluating the end of the season, I meet with key executives for thorough discussions and evaluations of all aspects of football operations.

The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.

People elect me to make sure the chief of police is the right chief of police. They elect me to make sure I have the right person running the airport.

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

After my show and others like it began airing on TV, network executives started to see that there was a market for outrageous, over-the-top content.

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

Finance industry executives earn an annual income, including benefits, grants and bonuses, that can reach over eight million shekels a year.