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.

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.

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

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

Sumner Redstone

We are extremely fortunate to have John, a top-notch executive with more than 25 years of experience in the service-oriented retail business, as the new leader of Blockbuster Entertainment,

Larry Lucchino

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.

Dick Wolf

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.

Khloe Kardashian

Being an executive producer allows me the opportunity to create original content, and I can't wait to show my fans what we have in store on 'Kocktails with Khloe.'

The fact of the matter is very few appellate judges have had reason to rule on huge executive power issues, so the track record is not that informative.

Kenneth Edmonds

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

Letitia Baldrige

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

On various shows, I've been the producing-director, the executive producer-director; and if you were working with the material you love with the right group of people, it's an incredible job to be doing.

Malcolm Forbes

Executives who get there and stay suggest solutions when they present the problems.

John Ridley

Not only does Hollywood make money - it seems to make better movies during recessions. I'm sure a lot of studio executives wish we could have one every year.

Joe Roth

I'm no longer interested in having executives supervise other people. I want everyone to be doing their own work.

I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up at a small company.

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

Ultimately, we want to have the executive back in the people's building.

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.

In terms of the executives involved, they've got every incentive to do a deal, whether it makes sense or not, because if they don't do one, they give the money back.

If you really slash executive compensation and perks too much, there will be inclination for people to want to leave.

Howard Dean

if the president wants to get this nomination through, with all the flak he's getting from the right wing, he needs to waive executive privilege.

Larry Ellison

In the last few days, Oracle executives have had the opportunity to speak with the holders of a majority of PeopleSoft shares, ... Many of those shareholders indicated the prices at which they would tender their shares.

James Burrows

I remember on the pilot of 'Will and Grace' some executives from NBC saying to me, 'There are too many gay jokes.' I said, 'If not on this show, then what show?'

Being able to extend E-mail to executives who aren't at their desks is a real productivity win for us.

Michael Parenti

The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

Orrin Hatch

And it's not fair to even raise executive sessions after we've had two private meetings.

These are not people who are in management. Most likely it would be a sales executive who had a great year and is reaping the rewards for it.

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.

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

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

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.