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• I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, ‘It’s all your fault.’ Your reaction is, ‘It’s not my fault.’ But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.

  Ben Horowitz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Executive, Group

• Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company’s fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar.

  James Surowiecki

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  Tags in Contrary, Executive

• So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people’s tables that I would make my own.

  Rupert Sanders

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  Tags in Executive, Developing

• While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it’s hard. Invest in the spirit.

  Jonathan Sacks

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  Tags in Executive, Economics

• An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

   

  John Henry Patterson

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  Tags in Correctly, Decides, Executive

• Of course it looks bad when you’re not executing. When things go bad, it’s not going to look good.

  Phil Simms

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  Tags in Executive

• No, if there is an aspect of the executive branch of the government that needs looking at, I’m liable to be called in to look at it. But I’m not the only one.

  Bill Goldberg

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  Tags in Aspect, Executive

• I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Myself, Preserving, Executive

• Life is very good. I’m the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.

  Steve Largent

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Executive

• Making recess appointments when the Senate isn’t in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It’s a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.

  John Podhoretz

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  Tags in Rational, Executive

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

  Garet Garrett

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Loyalty, Executive

• Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

  Earl Nightingale

  Topics in Ability

  Tags in Executive

• Given Mr. Obama’s lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.

  James Talent

  Topics in Effort, Past

  Tags in Crises, Executive

• 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.

  Herbert Hoover

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  Tags in Pronouncement, Producers, Legislative, Executive, Economic, Cured, Consumers, Themselves, Cannot, Healed, Must, Body, Depression, Cell

• 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.

  John Adair

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Executive, Chief, Strengths, Effective, Weakness, Knows

• No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

  Thomas Jefferson

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  Tags in Executive, Duty, Trying, Place, Man

• The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

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  Tags in Executive, Best, Good, People, Sense

• As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.

  Ann Coulter

  Tags in Executive, Apostles