Executives Quotes

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw.

Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

I have to make a lot of decisions that aren't in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives, players.

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please.

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

I hope there will be some good news and some good profits, and people will realize we have a lot of outstanding executives, and a lot of companies that are doing a good job, and those are good companies to invest in.

Critics might contend that putting former private-sector CEOs in the president's Cabinet places the fox in the henhouse. But it's unlikely such executives would expose themselves to the headaches if they weren't genuinely motivated by the call to service.

Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule.

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

I find myself using the word 'executives' now.

There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.

I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation.

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.