Top 190 Executives Quotes

The women executives in the film industry have the power to say, ‘No,’ but few of them have the power to say, ‘Yes.’

Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.

I have a big mouth, and I have a temper, so that’s not good for people. That’s not good for executives.

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.’

When employees join executives in truly owning the responsibility for business success, an exciting new sense of teamwork takes hold.

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.

Eric Schmidt from Google is one of my favorite mentors. And Eric would always say this very humbling thing that’s really true, which is, he would say, ‘Good executives confuse themselves when they convince themselves that they actually do things.’

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

Everyone in the ’80s grew up, and for a lot of the film executives, that’s what they know and love.

I’m not trying to rub shoulders with any record executives. If rubbing shoulders in the industry is what I wanted to do then I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing.

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

I was introduced to Zendaya by one of the executives at Fox, and like every single person who’s met her, you completely fall in love with her talent and her maturity.

I fundamentally believe that your words have so much credibility if you’re not taking money upfront. I feel really comfortable pushing actors and pushing executives and pushing marketing people when we’re not going to benefit financially unless the movie works. I feel like that makes the playing field so much more level.

No agency is better than its account executives.

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.

A lot of executives simply told me that my sound was dated and wouldn’t work, kind of telling me essentially to go away, that my music would never work in that ‘bro-country’ world. It broke my heart at times, but I also believed strongly in the music.

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

Business colleagues who have not seen each other for a long time but who have a good relationship can always shake hands warmly and grab each other’s right upper arm or shoulder with their free left hand. Men and women executives should not kiss each other in public.

But at the end of the day, in order for me to reach my full potential, I need an environment that allows me to be me… The executives at Fox Sports get and embrace me. Fox Sports allows me to be real.

There are moments when television systems are young and haven’t formed properly, and there’s room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.

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

Yahoo was Jerry Yang’s baby. He did a great job creating the baby. Unfortunately, some of the key executives after the foundation of the company couldn’t keep up with the technology innovation of the industry. They thought that Yahoo should become a media company.

Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for too-big-to-fail financial companies, who were handsomely compensated for taking risks that almost ruined the economy when they failed.

Usually when you do a pilot, there’s a moment where all of the executives get together and say thumbs up or down.

In another time, another world, each studio made 200 movies a year and had 20 executives. Today, a studio makes less than 20 movies a year and has 500 executives. They own too many parking decks and too many billboard companies. They’re awash in overhead, and it’s pinning them down, and they know it.

Defining, embedding, and living core beliefs set the stage for executives and employees to connect. Through actions that consistently convey who we are and how we act, executives can inspire employees to believe in the organization’s values and buy in to its brand.

Legal executives often specialise in areas such as conveyancing, family law, probate, and litigation. Training is typically spread over five years of combined study and work.

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.

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

We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.

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

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.

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.

Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.

I felt like I’d spent many years making excuses for my executives and making excuses for political candidates I was representing and their views, when some of those political views, in my mind, were very distasteful.

The average member of the public thinks of ‘business’ as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that ‘business’ actually embraces – in one way or another – most Americans.

It’s not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work benefits.

In years of interviewing presidents, prime ministers and chief executives all over the world, I can remember only a handful of times in which a leader has said: ‘I don’t know’ in answer to a question. Perhaps everyone I have ever interviewed knows everything about everything, but I doubt it.

In the music industry, you can’t create success without having to engage a white man. It’s just not possible. Whether it’s executives, A&Rs, and the people that hold the key to your paper, inevitably, you’ll be met with whiteness.

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.

Every time a film comes together, usually the studio executives come up for a day to the set. If you’re out of town, they’ll fly in or wherever you are – the cast, the director, the producers – all get together and have a big dinner and celebrate the fact that we’re about to start shooting.

In a career of trying to pry secrets, gossip, specificity and truth out of media executives, Ailes has been the most forthcoming, personal, compelling and honest I’ve ever dealt with.

I have to make a lot of decisions that aren’t in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives, players.

Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.

I’m reading the way a lot of technology executives have decried ‘gatekeepers’ and ‘traditional media,’ and that one of the promises of ‘new media’ was that it would break the chokehold that old media companies had on public opinion.

I would have loved to have been in the room with the ABC executives when they watched David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive’ TV pilot. You know that had to be a long silence after that thing stopped.

Most automakers develop multiple options for a single project. Then they present those options to a committee of executives who decide which one to go with. That takes a lot of time.

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.