#executive

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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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

When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time. ↗

— Joe Murray

#animation #as far as #bad #down #executive

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

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The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

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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

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

— John Henry Patterson

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I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier. ↗

— James Cash Penney

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My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people. ↗

— James Cash Penney

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