Executives Quotes

• Executives in Hollywood are missing a lot because they don't want to watch other cultures.

  

  Eugenio Derbez
  • Because
  • Cultures
  • Executives

• 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.

  

  Rick Moranis
  • Executives
  • Impetus
  • Rewrite

• I'm very involved with all the executives at Televisa.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Very
  • Involved
  • Executives

• I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Time
  • Path
  • Successful

• I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.

  

  Lew Wasserman
  • Party
  • California
  • System

• If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.

  

  William Feather
  • Men
  • Jobs
  • Granted

• The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor.

  

  Emilio Ambasz
  • Covered
  • Chairs
  • Predecessors

• Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Action
  • Mark
  • Orientation

• European affairs are no longer reserved for the executive.

  

  Udo Di Fabio
  • Affair
  • Executives
  • Reserved

• Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Fun
  • Responsibility
  • Boy

• These are very senior executives within the Marsh hierarchy, ... Not only was it wrong, it was harmful to the economy ... There is simply no responsible argument in favor of rigging bids, stifling competition and cheating.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Competition
  • Senior
  • Cheating

• 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.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Ideas
  • Stories
  • Following

• Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.

  

  C. K. Prahalad
  • Imagination
  • Resources
  • Executives

• I know that I'm freer as a hip-hopper than as an executive. Even as a black man, I enjoy more freedom as a hip-hopper than as a black man. That, s controversial to say, but it's the truth.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Men
  • Black
  • Enjoy

• Every coach, every executive, every leader: They all know right from wrong. Even those Enron guys. When someone uncovers a scandal in their company, I don't think they can say, "I didn't know that was going on." They're just saying they're too dumb to do their job! And if they really are too dumb, then why are they getting paid millions of dollars to do it? They know what's going on.

  

  Bo Schembechler
  • Leader
  • Company
  • Dumb

• The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Athlete
  • Higher
  • Obsession

• Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.

  

  Rebecca Eaton
  • Ideas
  • Stories
  • Executives

• When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

  

  William Feather
  • Bigs
  • Executives
  • Indecisive

• I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Team
  • Spirit
  • Cinema

• When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Power
  • Giving
  • Crisis

• The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.

  

  George Washington
  • Political
  • Government
  • Suffering

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

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Courage
  • Creative
  • Be Creative

• If most of the reviewers are white cis men, if most of the distributors are white cis men, most of the executives in history have been white cis men. Most of the people who have been giving awards to people are people who've already been in the business - retired white cis men. They've been creating a body of narrative forever.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Forever
  • Body
  • Creating

• In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.

  

  Michael Palmer
  • Advertising
  • Producers
  • Temporary

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