Executives Quotes

The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.

The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.

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

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

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

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.

I don't understand executives that pit women against each other, the fact that they brought in 'Body of Proof,' Dana Delaney is a friend of mine, and the two of us were just rolling our eyes, it's like, of course, you finally have two great female leads and you're going to put us on against each other.

I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas "are" funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.

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

I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.

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 those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.

He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.

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

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 thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.

Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw.

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

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

Critics might contend that putting former private-sector CEOs in the president's Cabinet places the fox in the henhouse. But it's unlikely such executives would expose themselves to the headaches if they weren't genuinely motivated by the call to service.

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

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

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

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

I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.

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

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.