Executives Quotations

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

I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.

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.

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.

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.

A lot of deals are done or not done because chief executives are not fully aligned to shareholders.

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

It's pretty easy in theatre. The comedy's either physical or verbal, and you're looking at the whole frame at once. But TV executives want close-ups. I keep telling them to look at Preston Sturges' movies. He'll do a whole scene without a cut in it, and it's a riot.

My laptop helps me carry on my business functions and stay in touch with my executives when I'm abroad.

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.

One of the great things about Silicon Valley is, irrespective of how competitive you might be with another company or how closely you might be working with that company, there's a great sort of give and take, and camaraderie from - between - some of the executives in the valley and some of the other investors in the valley.

As I start to think about what I want to do next, there are eight or nine networks I would be thrilled to work with. I remember developing at FX and the executives there telling me, 'We don't want to do shows that 20 million people kind of like; we want to do the show that 2 million people really like.' That's such a refreshing thing to hear.

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

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

Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a company is not allowed to provide a personal benefit to a decision maker in return for business. But hiring the sons and daughters of powerful executives and politicians is hardly just the province of banks doing business in China: it has been a time-tested practice here in the United States.

It's an open secret: Even now, in the 21st century, Korean executives often consult spiritual advisers before making major business decisions - decisions that can affect their employees around the world.

I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.

Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.

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

When you give chief executives too much compensation in stock options, they concentrate too much on the stock price, and there is a perverse incentive to raise the stock price, particularly when the chief executive wants to exercise his own options.

Not only do the majority of senior women executives have sports in their background, they recognize that the behaviors and techniques learned through sports are critical to motivating teams and improving performance in a corporate environment.

Your executives liking your show makes all the difference in the world. It's the difference between happiness and misery.

By the time I got to the point where I was 'starring' in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn't for me. I'm really not an actor. I'm a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebody's precious words work.

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.

Auto executives have shunned the limits-of-growth issues and concentrated nearly all their energies on the next quarter's sales and next year's models.

As an economist specializing in the global economy, international trade and debt, I have spent most of my career helping others make big decisions - prime ministers, presidents and chief executives - and so I'm all too aware of the risks and dangers of poor choices in the public as well as the private sphere.

My most memorable food challenge was probably the Big Texan in Amarillo. All the big executives called me because it was such an iconic challenge, and a victory in that would be a legitimizing device for myself as much as for the show.

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

Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'

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.

Executives must place a priority on wellbeing if they want to attract the right people, keep their best people, and drive their company's financial performance.

Executives don't burn out and leave when they feel deep satisfaction. They don't create the human detritus that disgruntled managers do.

While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn't unfettered financial cunning. It is, instead, the unwillingness of executives to confront the changing expectations of their stakeholders.

TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please.

I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edible plants, five native grasses, or five migratory birds within walking distance of their homes, or name the soil series upon which their house sits. And I would contend that if you don't know where you are, you are in fact nowhere at all.

The most important thing executives can do is send a very clear message to their employees that they care about each person's overall wellbeing and that they want to be a part of helping it improve over time.

I remember when I did my Enron film, my executive producers at the time felt very strongly that I should mock the Enron executives more viciously because everybody wanted that moment.

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

Companies buy customers when they cannot win new business on their own. They merge when their executives do not have a better idea of what to do.

In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.

Corporate executives often buy or sell shares in their companies, and stocks rarely rise or fall significantly when those transactions are reported.

The details of the personal expenses that executives put on the company tab often are not known because loopholes in federal disclosure rules let publicly traded companies generally avoid disclosing the perks they give executives along with pay and stock options.

Benefits are rarely made public in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, where companies must report the pay and options that their five highest-paid executives receive.

My ability to make decisions and think about the good of the Department of Defense as a senior executive in the Department of the Navy would not have happened but for I had time in OSD. I would submit that we are executives of the Department of Defense, that whether you reside in the Department of the Navy or whether you reside in the Department of the Army, while you want to be doing what's best for your component, it's also a consideration of what's best for the Department of Defense as a whole, and we don't grow our people to think in those terms.

Personal responsibility is a two-way street: both the consumer and the executives of the industry, both should act in a personally responsible manner.

NBC is struggling and executives have to be disappointed. Maybe two 'Apprentice' shows were at least one too many and 'Joey' is not doing any better. The one bright spot is 'My Name is Earl' but there's not much other than that.

Nobody is forcing anybody who is uncomfortable with the terms of service to use Facebook. Executives point out that Internet users have choices on the Web.

I would be keen to meet with CEOs and other top executives of U.S.-based petroleum companies during this visit. I have separately requested the USIBC (U.S.-India Business Council) to organize an event, wherein this interaction could take place.

Let's be direct here. These books were cooked by Lay and the other top executives who put hundreds of millions of dollars in their pockets, while the employees of Enron were victimized and hundreds of thousands of other investors lost billions of dollars.

No doubt, I'm sure, the senior executives at Microsoft were pretty upset (with the latest Vista delay). Steven has a track record of shipping products (and he can) potentially take the reins and get the thing out the door and fix whatever process problems there are.

More and more human resource executives are coming to the realization that they can no longer drag their heels on hiring decisions. If they do, it is increasingly likely that the candidate will be off the market before the offer is made.

Moreover, the concern for these risks expressed by the executives surveyed does not always translate into an insurance purchase.

I have gotten calls from a number of senior high-tech executives who are telling me that the market is dissolving rapidly before their eyes. But I suspect that a not inconceivable possibility is that what is dissolving in front of their eyes is their own personal net worth!

There are only certain windows, certain periods of time when executives can trade stocks and exercise options.

When Warren Beatty needed extra money from the studio, he came in as Warren Beatty, the movie star. I've seen grown studio executives turn into little boys when a star enters the room. Let's face it, if you're in a room talking with George Clooney about his movie, it's a lot different than talking with someone who's directed a bunch of music videos.

Miller has chosen, for whatever reason, to be the bell ringer for (concessions for) the next five years. He's been pretty outspoken. Auto executives have been dancing around this for a while, but they're not saying anything. They're sitting back and will reap the rewards. They sent the messenger and will reap the rewards.

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Since these are the first two major corporate executives to take the government on at trial in the post-Enron era, it's critically important that the government emerge at the end of the day with a victory,

Senior executives may find themselves facing decisions other pre-retirees don't need to consider. For instance, they may have a large portion of their net worth invested in employer stock and still feel strong ties to that employer. And for former executives who have a great deal of their net worth tied up in stock options, this can pose a dilemma: how can they balance their need to diversify with their desire to maintain involvement with the company and benefit from its future success?

Senior retail management is increasingly hard to find right now, ... A lot of the top executives have been around for a long time and they're still working on the premise that sales are driven by value for price and assortment.

It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

I'd be the kind of person walking in and sitting around with a bunch of executives and handing each one a mirror and saying, 'All right, look in the mirror -- that's the problem.'

I found most of the Disney executives to be less than forthcoming,

I found Hollywood pretty bruising and uncreative. The executives are all in thrall to the boss, and spend their times double-guessing him or her, and trying to remember what he/she said and then applying them to the script, whether it was useful or not. They're all in fear for their jobs.

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.

if (Black is) charged, if there's a trial, and if there is a conviction, we would be looking at a sentence along the high end of the corporate executives who already have been convicted and sentenced in the United States - into two decades.

I am very sad today, as are many executives across the country. We have a confirmation that France will not, can not reform.

China is still too costly for manufacturing complex, low-volume products such as semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Executives have proven again and again to be shortsighted, seeking out the lowest wages and not taking into account all other factors.

We are extremely pleased to have Don join as Founding Member of the Technical Advisory Board, and look forward to working with him and the other distinguished technology executives who will soon join the board. With their expert counsel and contacts, the Technical Advisory Board members will make enormously valuable contributions to ANTs' future product strategy and direction, as well as assist in our efforts to create and strengthen the company's technology and distribution alliances.

What I have found working with entrepreneurs and executives is what they really want is their life back.

Henry said. ''He may, however, go to Palm Springs to talk with possible candidates, if there are any executives he has been given permission to talk with.

We're often kind and benevolent to senior executives who fail,

I look forward to the challenges thatcome with taking on a broadened role at the company. Across allgroups, we have strong and talented teams of executives in place tosustain the growth trajectory.

Human resource executives and low-tech industries are at their wits' ends trying to find skilled personnel.

He did a tremendous job at Exxon Mobil, making the Mobil acquisition when oil was $10 a barrel as opposed to all these other executives now making all their acquisitions when oil is at $55.

The overwhelming success of this year's event shows the continued momentum we are experiencing in this space. It was exciting to see the number of executives interested in improving their pricing processes. Overall, this year's event attracted a diverse group of corporations and organizations representing over 25 industries.

If internal executives are deliberately misrepresenting internally, and then externally the company's position, and if it's material and causes harm to investors, well that satisfies a lot of the criteria for fraud.

We took it as a negative that Mark was leaving and we still think it is. Some of that was mitigated with Marty taking over, but I'd certainly rather have both executives in the company instead of just one.

We think (field study) gives us a competitive advantage, ... Plus, in Minnesota, there is a very high degree of social responsibility, where top executives are serving as mentors to our students.

My resignation from Oracle is not a reflection on the company, its executives or employees. And I wish Oracle and my former co-workers the very best.

That ain't bad. In our humble forecasting, we've been predicting a gradual decrease in unemployment. Business executives have been reporting to us they feel as though their region is coming out of a slow-growth business environment. It's not rampant optimism, but for the fi rst time in a number of years, executives from every corner of the state are showing more optimism for growth.

Ironically, if only because over the years I've known so many - from college deans to studio executives to European expats - who come to Los Angeles aspiring to nothing other than living in Topanga, I wound up there by accident.

Stanford and Harvard Business School share a common mission: to educate leaders around the world. Over the last several months, as we have explored the advantages of working together, we have become enthusiastic about the opportunity to deliver online an unparalleled management-education portfolio to executives and leaders around the world.

Recent trends are such that 'reasonable prudence and responsibility' are no longer adequate to protect executives from liability in the case of security or performance breakdown. You need to show extraordinary efforts are taken to ensure policies exist, are applied consistently and that rigorous searches to look for, identify and resolve vulnerabilities are made regularly.

Pilot season can be maddening. You're basically putting yourself and your talent out there to be scrutinized several times a day for months by network executives who have probably never acted in anything since their junior high school production of 'The Wiz.'

Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked, the people who get cheated, the people who get fooled by the products that Goldman turns out.

Participation at CARTS should be an indicator of the level of industry confidence. We expect that engineers and marketing executives will make the small investment of time to gain a competitive edge by finding out where the industry is going from both a technology and market perspective.

Organizations in Asia that are growing aggressively simply can't find the senior executives that they need to underpin their growth,

Such executives are unlikely to be willing to look at new ways of doing business.

People in the industry don't want to believe it, and most of the executives are still talking about the higher growth rate.

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

Jamie is probably one of the most creative, talented television executives I've ever met, ... After she rests up for a couple of weeks, if she ever wants to come to NBC Studios and talk about a show, I'd love to have her there. She's a really smart person.

Jeff Marcus is one of the most successful and dynamic executives in media-related industries today,

It is clear, based on the Court's ruling today, that Siebel Systems did not violate the spirit or letter of Regulation FD. We contested the SEC's claims in order to exonerate the company and its executives and to bring clarity to an important issue that was mishandled by the regulators. This was a win not only for Siebel but for all public companies trying to do the right thing.

Rising energy costs aside, the key difference between today and a year ago is the fact that businesses have far more confidence in future economic conditions, and this gives executives comfort when signing new leases.

Risk initiatives require active cooperation among the business line heads who will ultimately benefit from risk done right, the IT department that implements it, and the key executives who identify the institution's risk appetites and policies. Best practice risk management cannot be implemented without the involvement of all three.

Other states have an advantage in recruiting businesses, they say, since they can give hope of stability to the business executives compared to Virginia, whose system guarantees unknown change every four years.

Over the last 18 months that this issue has developed, we have been talking with various IBM executives at many levels, and just had not gotten anywhere, ... We're frustrated.

Our purpose here today is to help investors keep an eye on how much of their money is being paid to the top executives who work for them. It is about wage clarity, not wage controls.

Our goal is to elevate the dialogue around post-sales service and address issues that go beyond the tactical operations of workforce or inventory management. We are building a community of senior business and technology executives to help shape the role service organizations should play in the product value chain.