It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
quote by Ulysses S. Grant
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I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again. (On leaving the Executive Office Building)
quote by Richard Milhous Nixon
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I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing a political show for a long time and I had been interested in it for a long time. The moment I became available, he called me last year and asked me if I wanted to do it and then I just had to audition for the powers that be, and I got it.
quote by Bradley Whitford
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With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV.
quote by Andrzej Wajda
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Be The C.E.O. Of It
Handle your own business.
With an expertise,
You keep.
And be the C.E.O. of it.
You are the Chief Executive Officer.
Commander of your ship.
Know this.
And conduct yourself with a firm grasp held,
Within an unrelenting fist.
Get over mistakes made.
Moaning over them for you leaves no benefit.
You alone can make it known,
Persistence is in your grip.
And with it,
There is no quitting.
Handle your own business.
With an expertise,
You keep.
And be the C.E.O. of it.
You are the Chief Executive Officer.
Commander of your ship.
Know this.
And conduct yourself with a firm grasp held,
Within an unrelenting fist.
Release from your mind designs of defeat.
You...
And no one else,
Can succeed with skills to achieve.
Handle your own business.
And be the C.E.O. of it.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.
quote by Jane Byrne
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The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
quote by John D. Rockefeller
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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.
quote by John Adair
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Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.
quote by Steve Largent
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A Diverse Rule
It does'nt matter to me
If your straight or gay
It does'nt matter to me
If your led astray
Who cares if your from Monterey
The frisco Bay
Carmel by the sea
Just believe in me
Can't you see that I'm in you
And you in me
Can't you see I won't change
So just let me, be me
People called me crazy
Because I drank to much
People called me insane
Never used my brain
I had my D.U.I
Yah! dammit, I did get high
Legal or not
I ripped that sack
Toked up all that pot
Damn near had a heart attack
I may as well run
For some political office
New ideas are starting to surface
They can't run this country
So let us
With these final words
I must be relieved
You are my friend
I will not have
A bitter end
poem by Matt Mondschein
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The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.
quote by John Kenneth Galbraith
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Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.
quote by Steve Harvey
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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.
quote by Pete Rozelle
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
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.
quote by John Kenneth Galbraith
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First Encounter - Dr Reinhard Zinkann (co-owner and managing director of Miele)
Dr Reinhard Zinkann - awed me with
his awe for BMW's
Eberhard von Kuenheim
*Eberhard is BMW's former chief executive officer.
poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.
quote by John McCain
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A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.
quote by Chief Joseph
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What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.
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.
quote by Gerald R. Ford
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