#executives

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

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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

I hope there will be some good news and some good profits, and people will realize we have a lot of outstanding executives, and a lot of companies that are doing a good job, and those are good companies to invest in. ↗

— Don Nickles

#doing #executives #good #good job #good news

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. ↗

— Major Owens

#cost #costs #executives #eyes #great

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

#average #chief #companies #executives #feeling

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the "four P's" - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#concerned #executives #far #four #making

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. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#anything #bank #bank robbery #class #class distinctions

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon. ↗

— Jim Rogers

#commodities #even #executives #guess #hot

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

— Connie Chung

#dark #dark ages #executives #get #i

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. ↗

— Julianna Margulies

#body #brought #course #each #executives