Quotes of: Chief-executive Keyword

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.

Jerry Greenfield

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

Grover Cleveland

Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.

Colum McCann

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

Brent Scowcroft

Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it.

Henry Cloud

Everything I do, I build a kind of confidence net - 'I'm able to execute this; it's fine.'

Dev Hynes

I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.

James Daly

Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.

Jack Dorsey

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

Joseph Heller

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

Jacob Lew

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

Michael Bergdahl

I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.

Jim Gilmore

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

Noam Chomsky

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.

T. Boone Pickens

Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the board has inappropriately chosen to silence my concerns through termination as an executive officer.

George Zimmer

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

Donald E. Westlake

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

John Paul Stevens

Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.

Paul Tonko

For most western executives, innovation is about breakthrough technology or innovation. If it's not breakthrough, it's not interesting, and it's all about technology and products.

John Hagel III

When I wrote songs like 'Everyone I Love is Dead,' I never thought about how I was going to execute them live.

Peter Steele

Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.

Andrew Stanton