Best Executives Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Well I think straight executives don't think that straight people would accept me. But I think that straight people would.”

“We as label executives, we have to know the limitations of the artists.”

“Everyone in the '80s grew up, and for a lot of the film executives, that's what they know and love.”

“Cory Booker grew up rich in an all-white suburb. He's basically a white guy. His parents were very wealthy executives at IBM.”

“There are networks and executives who are willing to take risks on vastly different material, and as an actor, there are some really juicy roles to sink your teeth into.”

“At the FIFA World Player of the Year event, FIFA executives and FIFA president Sepp Blatter didn't know who I was. And I was being honored as top three in the world. That was pretty shocking.”

“You know you're getting older when the record executives start getting younger.”

“I was really fortunate in my career where I always had executives who were very like-minded.”

“Much of the work legal executives do has to be supervised by a solicitor, irrespective of the experience or ability of the individual. In practice, this is a major disincentive to legal executives setting up their own high street practices. Even when they can do the work, they are still tied to solicitors.”

“My parents weren't actors or studio executives.”

“I find myself using the word 'executives' now.”

“Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.”

“I'm reading the way a lot of technology executives have decried 'gatekeepers' and 'traditional media,' and that one of the promises of 'new media' was that it would break the chokehold that old media companies had on public opinion.”

“The women executives in the film industry have the power to say, 'No,' but few of them have the power to say, 'Yes.'”

“To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.”

“Not only does Hollywood make money - it seems to make better movies during recessions. I'm sure a lot of studio executives wish we could have one every year.”

“I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.”

“Usually when you do a pilot, there's a moment where all of the executives get together and say thumbs up or down.”

“I remember on the pilot of 'Will and Grace' some executives from NBC saying to me, 'There are too many gay jokes.' I said, 'If not on this show, then what show?'”

“I don't understand executives that pit women against each other, the fact that they brought in 'Body of Proof,' Dana Delaney is a friend of mine, and the two of us were just rolling our eyes, it's like, of course, you finally have two great female leads and you're going to put us on against each other.”

“I didn't listen to executives.”

“I'm not trying to rub shoulders with any record executives. If rubbing shoulders in the industry is what I wanted to do then I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing.”

“I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.”

“I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.”

“Studio executives who have said they would never ever release major movies direct to streaming platforms are now doing exactly that.”

“I'm not trying to be anyone. You know why other executives always hire phonies? Because they're phonies. They hire phonies because they like phonies. They're comfortable with them.”

“Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.”

“What I learned was it does not matter how much support you have in the boardroom, from the directors, the executives: you have to get results, and you have to win.”

“The paradox is that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and all the tech giants are bigger fans of music than some of the executives working at major record companies.”

“Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.”

“I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.”

“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.”

“I was in junior college a few years ago, so to be here sitting in this spot talking to these NFL executives, it's a dream come true. It's something that not a lot of people saw coming.”

“I hope there will be some good news and some good profits, and people will realize we have a lot of outstanding executives, and a lot of companies that are doing a good job, and those are good companies to invest in.”

“I'm tired of doing rewrites for executives.”

“Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.”

“Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.”

“In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.”

“Executives are rarely comfortable speaking on the record, particularly in secretive Silicon Valley companies.”

“When we were at MGM, we never did much about merchandise tie-ups There were too many executives and lawyers to go through.”

“I was introduced to Zendaya by one of the executives at Fox, and like every single person who's met her, you completely fall in love with her talent and her maturity.”

“David and Ellen Siminoff are legends in Silicon Valley - they are two of the most influential mentors to top executives and leaders behind the scenes, with long track records of success.”

“Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.”

“Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.”

“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.”

“If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.”

“I'm very involved with all the executives at Televisa.”

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

“Executives are waking up to realize that they can do a lot better, save money, make better decisions if they optimize and start thinking geographically and have a location strategy.”

“The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian.”

“I have very good executives and great children. They're very good.”

“Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.”

“In my general meetings, I certainly tell producers and executives that I'm interested in writing action films, but I think there's still a very specific set of writers they look at. And I don't think there's a lot of female writers on that list.”

“Yahoo was Jerry Yang's baby. He did a great job creating the baby. Unfortunately, some of the key executives after the foundation of the company couldn't keep up with the technology innovation of the industry. They thought that Yahoo should become a media company.”

“When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.”