Top 25 Top Executives Quotes

#1. Anyone who has followed the U.S. economy in recent years can tell you while corporate America and their wealthy executives have recovered from the last recession, middle-class families have not. About 95 percent of income gains between 2009 and 2012 went to the top one percent.

James P. Hoffa

#2. Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge right down the beaten path.

Charlaine Harris

#3. We lay there together for a little while longer, watching the sun over the lake as it finally started to go down, and twilight started to fall all around us, the fireflies starting to wink in the grass.

Morgan Matson

#4. Ideally, most of the top executives of a company should be on Foundational tours.

Reid Hoffman

#5. There's nothing creepier than having a psychotic Apollyon caged in the basement.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#6. Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

David Riesman

#7. Below her, on rough benches, sat not only most of the trash in Maycomb County, but the county's most respectable men.

Harper Lee

#8. One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#9. The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

Ricardo Semler

#10. When you stand next to beauty and know you're not, you either feel inferior or you're thankful for the ones who saw you and loved you anyway.

Donna Lynn Hope

#11. For a company culture to change, the top executives must be on board with changing it. This means they must understand what the change means for them.

Janet Gregory

#12. human beings have an almost infinite capacity for adapting to the expectations around

Gloria Steinem

#13. The classic problem as an entrepreneur is that they have a hard time delegating. But that's really crazy. Recruiting other executives is critical, so is dealing with customers and dealing with regulators. Those are functions that only the top founders can do.

Robert Pozen

#14. We feel the love of strangers every day in the things they do that affect us without our knowledge.

Cassia Leo

#15. I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.

Fay Vincent

#17. For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

Letitia Baldrige

#18. Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

Bill Gurley

#19. Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.

Steven Rattner

#20. The boy in the closet is your boyfriend. He loves you and will tell you all about last night.

Cat Patrick

#21. For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis is not only bad taste, it's bad strategy-and I will not tolerate it as president.

Barack Obama

#22. The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.

Justin Welby

#23. There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.

Terry Gilliam

#24. I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead.

Alan Furst

#25. The quality most desirable in a CEO? According to a global survey conducted by IBM of 1,500 top executives in sixty countries: creativity.

Steven Kotler

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