Executive Quotes

The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times.

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.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other.

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them.

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

A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class.

I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.

The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan.

You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.

I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services.

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.

The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team.

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.