Quotes with executives

  • It is the essence of grantsmanship to persuade the Foundation executives that it was they who suggested the research project and that you were a belated convert, agreeing reluctantly to all they had proposed.

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  • Harold S. Geneen The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Ben Shapiro Conservatives are routinely pilloried on television. A&E likely greenlit 'Duck Dynasty' in the first place because executives believed Americans would laugh at the redneck antics of the self-described 'white trash' family.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Sinclair Lewis Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • T. Boone Pickens 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
    American business magnate and financier (1928 - )
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  • Rita Mae Brown I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Bruno Tonioli I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Barney Frank Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson It is the essence of grantsmanship to persuade the Foundation executives that it was they who suggested the research project and that you were a belated convert, agreeing reluctantly to all they had proposed.
    Parkinsons Laws in Medical Research, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 1962
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Bill Gurley Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Bill Gurley Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Carter Burwell 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.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Morris Hite No agency is better than its account executives.
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  • Beth Brooke Not only do the majority of senior women executives have sports in their background, they recognize that the behaviors and techniques learned through sports are critical to motivating teams and improving performance in a corporate environment.
    Beth Brooke
    American businesswoman and athelete (1959 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • William Goldman Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later they're going to get fired.
    William Goldman
    American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1931 - 2018)
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  • Walt Whitman 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.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • C. Wright Mills The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Campbell Brown This must be such a relief for the TV executives managing a business in decline, suffering from a thousand cuts from social media and other new platforms. Trump arrived on the scene as a kind of manna from hell.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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