Executives Quotes

Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.

I have many women executives. I always have. When I was back in the construction days, the big construction days, I had women in charge of big developments.

We have jobs that are in the pipeline, and I deal with all the executives, the big ones and the small ones. I have really gotten to know America.

An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right

By the time executives get to high levels, they are good at making others feel confident in their judgment, even if there's no strong basis for the judgment.

Executives and studios really like to have control over their product. They panic or they're not secure enough to trust in the powers of really amazing improv people.

I want to see more companies do profit-sharing. If you help create the profits, you should be able to share in them, not just the executives at the top.

Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5 billion pieces of candy.

It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life.

The Phoenix Project is a must read for business and IT executives struggling with the growing complexity of IT.

... a meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive.

In fact, presidents and vice presidents are automatically audited by the IRS, which hasn't stopped other chief executives from making them public.

I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.

What great executives do is not magic. Their performance is made possible by specific, identifiable skills.

The intelligence gap is essentially a shortage of executives with superior thinking skills who are needed by every business, as compared with the number of decision-making positions available.

The only thing I find executives down about is the regulatory environment.

It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.

Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related reasons.

Starting at 16 years old I was in boardrooms of older executives pitching talk shows. I wanted to be the youngest talk show host for a really long time.

People don't tune in to watch network executives' decisions. They don't tune in to watch writers' decisions. They tune in to watch people that they like.

I used to do a stunt in almost every movie. When I became an executive, all the insurance guys freaked out.

An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.

Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.

Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media.

Many of my executives have worked with me since the beginning. I can be fair and decisive and encouraging as well as demanding.

[Television executives] are afraid to advertise condoms that could save lives, but do not blush about telecasting a National Geographic special on President Reagan's pelvic plumbing.

Behind every piece of bad content is an executive who asked for it.

The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.

I'm here with Howard Millar and Michael Cawley, our two deputy chief executives. But they're presently making love in the gentleman's toilets, such is their excitement at today's results.

Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.

It's not often that you get a director, singing the praises of his executives.

What the polls don't tell you is, though other polls do, is that if you do a study of CEOs, top executives in corporations, they're liberal.

Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.

Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.

Clearly [Donald] Trump likes the way business executives and generals think and talk much more than policy professionals.

I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.

I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.

Either an executive can do his job or he can't.

Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives.

Without question, CEOs, executives and employees in companies in the United States and around the world have rallied to face the challenge of a social media marketplace.

Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for socially irresponsible behavior.

Unfortunately, too many executives believe the myths about trust. Myths like how trust is soft and is merely a social virtue. The reality is that trust is hard-edged and is an economic driver.

I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.

In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence, bonuses for executives in the here-and-now.

European affairs are no longer reserved for the executive.

I don't like what's going on with the executive compensation.

I think Gary Johnson would be capable of being a good chief executive and yes a commander in chief - Aleppo to the contrary, notwithstanding.

Millennials, instead of a danger, are really a reflection of the society in which they grew up in, and in which all of us now live.

Despite the continual rise of the knowledge worker over the last 60 years, we haven’t done enough to question “how we’ve always done things” and redefine effectiveness in organizations.