Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Roth

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

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.

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.

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.

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 Stern

I didn't listen to executives.

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.

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?'

It was a unanimous vote by the executive committee. It was 100 percent. It didn't take five seconds to vote.

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.

Arlen Specter

It's more than executive privilege, ... It's really lawyer-client privilege.

J. Reuben Clark

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

Noam Chomsky

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

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.

Michael Parenti

The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

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

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.

William J. Brennan

More fundamentally, however, the answer to petitioners' objection is that there can be no impairment of executive power, whether on the state or federal level, where actions pursuant to that power are impermissible under the Constitution. Where there is no power, there can be no impairment of power.

Shirley Franklin

When you are an executive, my friends, that is not leadership.