Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our negotiating team has recommended to our executive that the offer be rejected. Our executive is prepared to recommend to our membership that it be rejected.

There are officials who think they can go into executive session whenever they feel like it.

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

Robert Reich

The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.

Axilor Ventures helps startups to improve their odds of success, and I look forward to supporting the executive management of Axilor with this vision.

She's not the first very strong executive to leave a dot.com that's had its stock go down.

Bill Cosby

Network executives never did understand what made our show work,

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,'

There's always going to be a need for gatekeepers who perform the service that record labels do now. Otherwise, it's just noise, pure cacophony. Most people who are not A&R (Artist & Repertoire) executives don't want to sort through tens of thousands of contenders to find 50 things that sound great.

Anne Johnson

About 51 percent of nonprofit executives have been in their positions five years or less.

Malcolm Forbes

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

It's the top executive who wants to live the way he lives elsewhere--in a fine, fine building, in an extraordinary living space.

It sometimes seems like every major Republican financial executive in New York has already been offered his job.

I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up at a small company.

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.

Anthony Carmona

Don't we realise that the student of today is the executive of tomorrow?

John Caudwell

There are lots of brownfield sites in Stoke, but they are not suitable for building executive homes. It needs to be surrounded by fields. It needs to be on greenbelt land. That's what executives want.

Too often executive pay is not tied to performance.

Noam Chomsky

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Howard Stern

I didn't listen to executives.

The mood in the executive suites I visit is generally optimistic.

John Roberts

I vividly remember my first day on the White House staff. My office, of course, was in the Old Executive Office Building. I didn't rate one in the West Wing; but don't try to tell me or any of the rest of us working there that we weren't working in the White House.

These proposals are a radical revision of the existing framework. Next year's proxies on executive pay are going to look pretty different.

Ed Fallon

These executives have irreparably violated the public trust.

Howard Dean

That's how we're going to fix Medicare, is to get somebody who has executive experience in governing, particularly in health care, ... With me, you'll get results, because I'm a governor and I've done it.

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.

This is a new testing stage. The successor has to be tested out in an executive position.

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.

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

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.'

Ivan Glasenberg

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

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.