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Chief Executive Quotes

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. T. Boone Pickens
[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on would have about as much chance of power as the chief executive of BP has in taking over from Oprah Winfrey. Terry Eagleton
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. J. Irwin Miller
Ulysses S. Grant quote: "It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office..."
It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. Ulysses S. Grant
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. John Kenneth Galbraith
I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned. Gerald R. Ford
Bob McDonnell quote: "The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the..."
The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times. Bob McDonnell
And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament. Tom A. Watson
In the fall of the year 2000, there just happened to be a decision point when they asked me to become Chief Executive Officer of the company. It was a time when, as you remember, we were starting to have some real problems in the California energy markets. Jeffrey Skilling
A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced. David Limbaugh
Jane Byrne quote: "I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by..."
I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive. Jane Byrne
Steve Largent quote: "Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive..."
Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA. Steve Largent
Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record. Pete Rozelle
I yearn to see other chief executives throughout the nation follow suit, so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice. Winthrop Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller quote: "Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the..."
Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive. John D. Rockefeller

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