Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Nathan

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.

Christopher Cox

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 president has been in touch with state police and the Executive Office of Public Safety. They will leave sooner than later, I suspect.

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

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.

Linda Hirshman

I think it's not just the universities. It's the executives in the boardroom.

Harry Shearer

It grew out of the fact that so many record executives had seen Judith, and had said, 'She's great, we know she's great, we love her, we don't know what to do with her,'

I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interest, not to talk them down.

Elizabeth Warren

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.

Our negotiating team has recommended to our executive that the offer be rejected. Our executive is prepared to recommend to our membership that it be rejected.

I thought we had it all worked out from executive (closed) session.

Beau Bridges

When Spielberg was talking with the other executives about making this movie, he said he was only interested if they were going to tell the truth about the westward crossing, which means how the Native Americans were disrespected.

I was very surprised. I assumed, probably like most senior executives in most organizations, that I knew all of what was going on around here,

Bill Cosby

I was told maybe nine years ago by an executive who was working for a major network that the networks from now on are going to be entertaining 13-year-old people, and that's what you see today.

Bob Phillips

We want the public to know if money is spent to influence executive action.

The executives really took a huge hit. That's typical in a bankruptcy, where executives lose a significant part of their compensation.

Jen Lancaster

Writing was something I always liked, but it wasn't a career until I was laid off from my executive position in my 30s. I started a website because I was bored, unemployed and angry.

These proposals are a radical revision of the existing framework. Next year's proxies on executive pay are going to look pretty different.

Ed Fallon

These executives have irreparably violated the public trust.

The mood in the executive suites I visit is generally optimistic.

real CEO, an executive officer. We want him to start to leverage outside more, we want him to get into his networks he has. ... He is still in charge.

There's always going to be a need for gatekeepers who perform the service that record labels do now. Otherwise, it's just noise, pure cacophony. Most people who are not A&R (Artist & Repertoire) executives don't want to sort through tens of thousands of contenders to find 50 things that sound great.

Anne Johnson

About 51 percent of nonprofit executives have been in their positions five years or less.

It's the top executive who wants to live the way he lives elsewhere--in a fine, fine building, in an extraordinary living space.

It sometimes seems like every major Republican financial executive in New York has already been offered his job.

This is a new testing stage. The successor has to be tested out in an executive position.

The whole idea of parachutes was to keep executives from standing in the way of valid transactions. What they seem to have become, because of their large size, is an incentive to do transactions.

The most positive thing about this executive order is that the government is practicing what it's preaching.

William Crawford

We have executives running this city. We need to wait for a master plan to make a decision? It's part of my frustration.

Howard Dean

That's how we're going to fix Medicare, is to get somebody who has executive experience in governing, particularly in health care, ... With me, you'll get results, because I'm a governor and I've done it.

Melanie Mayron

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

is not a reflection on the company, its executives or employees.

We don't think the national security issue trumps the defendant's rights to get this information that is in the possession of the Executive Branch.