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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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"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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"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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"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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"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 single most important factor in determining the climate of an organization is the top executive." »Charles Galloway
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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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"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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"chief of the Army." »Napoleon Bonaparte, last words, 1821
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"What is man's chief enemy Each man is his own." »Anacharsis Cloots
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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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"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief." »William Shakespeare
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"The home is the chief school of human virtues." »William Ellery Channing
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"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education." »Sir Walter Scott
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"That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time." »John Stuart Mill
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"The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty." »Nelson Rockefeller
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"A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception." »Baron Manfred von Richthofen ("Red Baron")
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"At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets." »Oscar Wilde
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"When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated." »H.L. Mencken
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"The chief proof of mans greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness." »Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
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"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." »Charles Kingsley
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