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

~Brad Stone

Topics: Comfortable Companies Executives Particularly Rarely Record Secretive Silicon Silicon Valley Speaking Valley

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Good executives, like all good leaders, must expect opposition when making decisions or when making or enforcing the law. But executives must engage those that disagree with them.

~Brian Sandoval

Topics: Decisions Disagree Enforcing Engage Executives Expect Good Law Leaders Like Making Making Decisions Must Opposition Them Those

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I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

~Bruno Tonioli

Topics: Directors Executives Latest Lot Movie People Plan Pool Productions Swimming Swimming Pool Think Tv Vision Which I Think

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The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.

~C. Wright Mills

Topics: Any Company Continental Corporation Duck Encounter Executives General Hunt Modern Motors Nearest Retreat Sort

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I wrote 'Thelma & Louise' in 1988, and we shot it in 1990. Everyone kept saying, 'This is so groundbreaking... this is going to change the landscape,' but I don't see that result at all. When we saw some female studio executives, we were hopeful that more women would be hired as directors, but that didn't really seem to happen.

~Callie Khouri

Topics: Change Directors Everyone Executives Female Going Happen Hired Hopeful Kept Landscape More Really Result Saw Saying See Seem Shot Some Studio Were Women Would Wrote

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This must be such a relief for the TV executives managing a business in decline, suffering from a thousand cuts from social media and other new platforms. Trump arrived on the scene as a kind of manna from hell.

~Campbell Brown

Topics: Arrived Business Cuts Decline Executives Hell Kind Managing Media Must New Other Platforms Relief Scene Social Social Media Suffering Thousand Trump Tv

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We really think highly of the executives at SBC. And Microsoft is one of the great companies of the 21st century. It is in all of our best interests to work together. In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself; you have to form alliances.

~Carlos Slim

Topics: Alliance Best Best Interests Century Companies Executives Form Great Highly Interests Microsoft New Our Really Technology Think Together Wave Work Work Together You Yourself 21St Century

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Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation.

~Carter Burwell

Topics: Accomplish Anything Audience Constantly Executives Film Films Hard Making Most People Producer Situation Studio Very Work

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For decades, activist shareholders were an entertaining, but largely ignored, Wall Street sideshow. Disgruntled investors would attend annual meetings to harangue executives, criticize strategies - and protest that their complaints were being ignored.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Activist Annual Attend Being Being Ignored Complaints Criticize Decades Entertaining Executives Ignored Investors Largely Meetings Protest Shareholders Strategies Street Wall Wall Street Were Would

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Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Businesses Campaign Donations Employee Executives Fiercely Group Hardly Involved Lobby Make Only Politics Public Unions

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