| "The single most important factor in determining the climate of an organization is the top executive." »Charles Galloway |
| "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 |
| "I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near." »Margaret Hilda Thatcher |
| "If you can't ignore an insult, top it if you can't top it, laugh it off and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved." »J. Russel Lynes |
| "Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity." »Vera Brittaiin |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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. |
| "In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)" »George Will |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself." »Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
| "Be nice to everyone on your way to the top because you pass them all on the way down." »Fred Hufnagel, Sr. |
| "There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view." »Harry Millner |
| "Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there." »John Wooden |
| "Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars." »Bernard Baruch |
| "To be positive To be mistaken at the top of one's voice." »Ambrose Bierce |
| "Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was." »Dag Hammarskjld |
| "Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority." »William Arthur Ward |
| "Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top ." »Unknown |
| "People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom." »Peter Ustinov |
| "An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides." »John H. Patterson |
| "Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up's." »Peter J. Davies |
| "The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split." »Jerry Coleman |
| "I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence." »Doug McLeod |
| "It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
