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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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"I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission." »Robert Burns
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"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer." »William Shakespeare
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"There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution." »Michael Gartner
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"Today I met with a subliminal advertising executive for just a second." »Steven Wright
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"Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity." »Vera Brittaiin
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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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"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 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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"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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"Don Corleone I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael - if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell... or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning - then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room and then I do not forgive. But with said, I pledge - on the souls of my grandchildren - that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today." »Godfather, The
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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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"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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"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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"What is man's chief enemy Each man is his own." »Anacharsis Cloots
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"chief of the Army." »Napoleon Bonaparte, last words, 1821
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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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"Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief." »William Shakespeare
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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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"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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"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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"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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"That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time." »John Stuart Mill
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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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