Quotes of: Chief-executive Keyword

The politicians looked after the mandarins. The mandarins looked after the central bankers and the regulators. (The governor of the Central Bank was paid more in 2008 than the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, as was the chief executive of the Fina...

Life

It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

Sitting Bull

A billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion seconds ago, the Beatles changed music. A billion Coca-Colas ago was yesterday morning. —Robert Goizueta, chief executive of the Coca-Cola Com...

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edible plants, five native grasses, or five migratory birds within walking distance of their homes, or name the soil series upon which their house sits. ...

Paul Hawken

Police Chief Aiello: I'm the chief of police, not the chief of the people.

Once Upon a Time in America

The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.

The Chief Seattle's Speech

[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can s...

Terry Eagleton

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

Chief Joseph

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

Sitting Bull

What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.

Paul Ryan

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

William Wallace

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.

Sitting Bull

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.

Sitting Bull

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

Joseph Story

There are two chief responsibilities of the Secretary's office. One is to run the elections in the State of Connecticut to make sure they run fairly and efficiently because the Secretary is the chief election official. The Secretary of the State is a...

Susan Bysiewicz

A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.

Chief Joseph

[Chief Bosun enters the torpedo room, which has been dressed up as a red light room] Chief Bosun: QUIET IN THIS WHOREHOUSE! [the crew falls silent] Chief Bosun: Bad news, men. Ario: What's wrong? Chief Bosun: [pause] Schalke lost the game. 5-0. No mo...

Das Boot

Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

Oliver Cromwell

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

Oliver Cromwell

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.

Sitting Bull