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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.
Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
As we all know there have been fabulous women chief executives: Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir.
I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.
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.
It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue.
Executives need ample flexibility to respond to the market. That means both reducing costs and increasing innovation.
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
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.
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.
I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
If you help create the profits, you should be able to share in them, not just the executives at the top.
When employees join executives in truly owning the responsibility for business success, an exciting new sense of teamwork takes hold.
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.
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.
The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.
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.
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.
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.
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
While some entertainment executives understand the power of having someone else speak for you, most Hollywood publicists don't.
Every time my manager approached big network executives or even cable, they told him I was too dangerous. They couldn't trust me.
The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
With a global society hungry for luxury, distribution and supply chains are now as important for executives as a hands-on feel for products.
In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.
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.
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.
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.
Many of my executives have worked with me since the beginning. I can be fair and decisive and encouraging as well as demanding.
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.
Executives don't burn out and leave when they feel deep satisfaction. They don't create the human detritus that disgruntled managers do.
Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.
Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.
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.
Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.
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.
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.
Corporate executives often buy or sell shares in their companies, and stocks rarely rise or fall significantly when those transactions are reported.
Clearly [Donald] Trump likes the way business executives and generals think and talk much more than policy professionals.
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.
Executives are rarely comfortable speaking on the record, particularly in secretive Silicon Valley companies.
What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.
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.
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.
As alleged, the most senior executives at Brixmor engaged in a years-long scheme to cook the books and deceive the investing public.
Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.
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.
I look forward to partnering with campus executives, administrators, coaches and student-athletes to enhance the intercollegiate athletics experience.
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.
I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.
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.
If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.
Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
I have to make a lot of decisions that aren't in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives, players.
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.
