Effective Executive Quotes

#1. The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

Robert Zoellick

#2. The effective executive, therefore, asks: "What can my boss do really well?" "What has he done really well?" "What does he need to know to use his strength?" "What does he need to get from me to perform?" He does not worry too much over what the boss cannot do.

Peter F. Drucker

#3. An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.

Peter Drucker

#4. "The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength."

Peter Drucker

#5. Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.

Gene Morton

#6. One's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is ...

Peg Bracken

#7. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

Joseph Conrad

#8. If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

Gloria Steinem

#9. The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this; He who dwells in the heaven laughs at them.

Karl Barth

#10. To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.

Peter Drucker

#11. As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.

Philip Pullman

#12. The fine art of executive decision consists in not deciding questions that are not now pertinent, in not deciding prematurely, in not making decisions that cannot be made effective, and in not making decisions that others should make.

Chester Barnard

#13. No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

Peter Drucker

#14. Love is a diseases which makes the mind stop functioning and the heart beating faster.

Amit Abraham