#executive

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold. ↗

— Garet Garrett

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You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#company #desk #doing #executive #keeps

When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive. ↗

— Thomas Lennon

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

— Leonard Maltin

#believe #both #end-all #executives #hollywood

Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage. ↗

— John Milius

#attribute #be strong #because #courage #executive

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#building #business #chief #chief executive #companies

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. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#any #comes #company #continental #corporation

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. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

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Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries. ↗

— Martin L. Gross

#eight #employees #every #executive #federal

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. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#big #clients #come #creative #executives