Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth Edmonds

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

Bill Cosby

Network executives never did understand what made our show work,

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.

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

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

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.

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

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,'

With so much money invested in their most promising projects, Hollywood executives will understandably do everything in their power to make their products a success in the marketplace. Therefore, the most expensive films often also get the highest marketing budgets, and are slotted into the most favorable opening weekends.

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.

Ivan Glasenberg

A lot of deals are done or not done because chief executives are not fully aligned to shareholders.

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.

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.

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,

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.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'

Rick Moranis

By the time I got to the point where I was 'starring' in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn't for me. I'm really not an actor. I'm a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebody's precious words work.

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.

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.

The laws effectively require that white executives replace themselves.

Malcolm Forbes

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

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.

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.'

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

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.

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.