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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." »Sam Ervin
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"In business when you are attracting new business by the positive manner with which you have handled your old business that is called magnetism and it is practically irresistible." »Chase LeBlanc
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"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business." »Henry Ford
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"Innovation in products, services, value chains and business models is the only sustainable growth strategy. New knowledge and business networks will shape the new global economy." »Med Jones
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"There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting." »David Letterman
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"The chief business of the American people is business." »Calvin Coolidge
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"Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly." »Aldus Manutius
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"Today I met with a subliminal advertising executive for just a second." »Steven Wright
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"Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity." »Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
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"Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity." »Vera Brittaiin
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"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men 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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"A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself." »Arthur W. Radford
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"The single most important factor in determining the climate of an organization is the top executive." »Charles Galloway
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"I'm not going to let anybody come down at night like Nicodemus and whisper something in my ear that no one else can hear. That is not executive privilege it is poppycock." »Sam James Ervin, Jr.
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"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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"The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference." »Fred Allen
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"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive." »Scott Adams
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"For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business." »D. W. Brogan
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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." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: "Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?"" »Dave Barry, "Sweating Out Taxes"
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"Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"There's no business like show business." »Irving Berlin
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"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
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"What business strategy is all about; what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning - is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors" »Keniche Ohnae
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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)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." »Ambrose Bierce
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"Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides." »John H. Patterson
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"An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides." »John H. Patterson
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"A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic." »Aldous Huxley
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