Executives Quotes

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.

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

I find myself using the word 'executives' now.

There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.

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

Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation.

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

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

No agency is better than its account executives.

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'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

I yearn to see other chief executives throughout the nation follow suit, so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice.

Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!

My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

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

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

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

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

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

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.

No agency is better than its account executives.

I didn't listen to executives.

I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.

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.

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