Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Johnson

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

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.

You wouldn't want sales executives using USB sticks they'd picked up from a trade show, but you might let them use company-issued devices.

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

Shirley Franklin

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

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.

To many people, that's what the true compensation is and what the executives get taxed on. Not until the stock vests can individuals put it in their pockets, and now investors are going to be able to see what it's worth.

O. Henry

To manage, rather than be managed by the market, health plan executives need to be proactive. They need to look now at the issues likely to face the industry this year.

Martha Stewart

to show what Martha Stewart Living was really all about to the broadest possible audience, the kind of executive that I really am and the kind of work we do.

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.

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.'

John Roberts

I vividly remember my first day on the White House staff. My office, of course, was in the Old Executive Office Building. I didn't rate one in the West Wing; but don't try to tell me or any of the rest of us working there that we weren't working in the White House.

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

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.

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.

Howard Stern

I didn't listen to executives.

The laws effectively require that white executives replace themselves.

Noam Chomsky

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

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.