Top 579 Executives Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Good executives, like all good leaders, must expect opposition when making decisions or when making or enforcing the law. But executives must engage those that disagree with them.

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

During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City, the most resistant audiences I ever faced in the process of doing corporate workshops on equality in the workplace were not male executives - they were the wives of male executives. As long as her income came from her husband, she was not feeling generous when affirmative action let another woman have a head start vying for her husband's (her) income.

At this moment in history, millions of 'working dads' are desiring to do what they do not feel they have the right to do: be more devoted as a dad, less devoted as a worker. This feeling is far more ubiquitous among men executives than women executives in many areas of the world because, for instance, Asia-Pacific women executives today are more than six times as likely to not have children than men executives are. The Asia-Pacific executive man is about six times as likely to be a working dad as an executive woman is to be a working mom.

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

There's so many gatekeepers to getting in front of showrunners or executives. If we pull those middlemen out, and we get women in rooms with the executives, the people hiring, it seems to break down barriers. Because they can no longer say, 'There just aren't any women to hire,' when you're surrounded by fifty of them.

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

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

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.

Much of the work legal executives do has to be supervised by a solicitor, irrespective of the experience or ability of the individual. In practice, this is a major disincentive to legal executives setting up their own high street practices. Even when they can do the work, they are still tied to solicitors.

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

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

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

I've all venture a guess as we saw a lot of those executives going in for the viewers, we saw a bunch of Fox News executives going in there. We saw Jeff Zucker president of CNN standing there, just in case you don't know those faces. So there was all of muckety-mucks from all of the media, cable, broadcast, you name it.What is fairness to [Donald] Trump? With President-elect Trump?

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

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

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

These pharmaceutical company executives are dope dealers and they should be treated worse, and more roughly than dope dealers. When you're talking about millionaire and billionaire executives at pharmaceutical companies, these are people with something to lose if threatened with jail. Frog-march them out of their door in suburbia, handcuffed and surrounded by DEA officers, with their children and neighbours watching.

I find myself using the word 'executives' now.

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

There's a trend in Hollywood at the moment where studio executives are coming from more of a marketing background, and that is challenging. I think one of the problems of marketing executives is that they don't understand how films get made and they're a bit nervous. And that is not the most efficient way to be a studio executive.

Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives.

Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.

Systematic decision review also shows executives their own weaknesses, particularly the areas in which they are simply incompetent. In these areas, smart executives don't make decisions or take actions. They delegate.

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

Executives run organizations. In business, we need executives who have clarity, people who are in touch with themselves. Then, in leadership and management positions, they can be good role models and leaders. The people I know who have really moved their organizations are scrupulous role models. They are so clear about honesty, integrity, openness, mutual self-respect, dignity for the individual, and creativity, that they don't deviate from these principles at all in their behavior.

Very little attention is paid to improving the decision-making skills of both individual executives and the organizational benchstrength as a whole. Often we find that this is overlooked because there is a common assumption the business executives have all the requisite cognitive skills they need when they come to work for the organization. The problem with that perspective is that it overlooks the fact that thinking skills can be learned and improved at any time during the course of a persons lifetime.

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

In another time, another world, each studio made 200 movies a year and had 20 executives. Today, a studio makes less than 20 movies a year and has 500 executives. They own too many parking decks and too many billboard companies. They're awash in overhead, and it's pinning them down, and they know it.

I'm tired of doing rewrites for executives.

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

Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.

I'm very involved with all the executives at Televisa.

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

I'm a really big believer in chief executives not staying forever.

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

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.

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

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

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

Defining, embedding, and living core beliefs set the stage for executives and employees to connect. Through actions that consistently convey who we are and how we act, executives can inspire employees to believe in the organization's values and buy in to its brand.

The details of the personal expenses that executives put on the company tab often are not known because loopholes in federal disclosure rules let publicly traded companies generally avoid disclosing the perks they give executives along with pay and stock options.

Too many talk about a company's leadership, referring to the senior most executives in the organization. They are just that: senior executives. Leadership doesn't automatically happen when you reach a certain pay grade. Hopefully you find it there, but there are no guarantees.

No agency is better than its account executives.

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

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

The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the development of civilization, but such leaders appear sporadically, by chance. They do not always appear when they are most needed. The great executives have given inspiration and push to the advancement of human society, but it is the legislator who has given stability and continuity to that slow and painful progress.

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

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

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

My parents weren't actors or studio executives.

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

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

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

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

I didn't listen to executives.

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