Executives Quotes

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives.

I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.

Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.

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

The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

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

At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.

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

An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.

I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

I didn't listen to executives.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.

The hardest thing for a chief executive to do is to tell someone that they don't have a job anymore.

Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive.

I came to understand that the words executive and corporate never belong next to the word chef.

When you are an executive, my friends, that is not leadership.

In my experience, good executives don't make mistakes.

If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?

A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.