#executives

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#dangerous #decision #decision making #decisions #discussions

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#authors #best #churches #colleges #common

Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff! ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#asked #asking #borrowed #break #city

My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors. ↗

— James Woods

#across #any #attitude #bleeding #death

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#boulevard #executives #me #paramount #pleased

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#businesses #executives #highly #many #paid

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry. ↗

— Don Bluth

#artistic #awry #business #decisions #executives

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#analyze #belief #believe #business #business school

And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#around #cabinet #consensus #dynamics #executives

I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out. ↗

— Jack LaLanne

#chew #did #executives #group #guys