Executive Quotes

“The business environment is constantly evolving. Economic fluctuations, technological disruptions, regulatory shifts, and competitive pressures demand that companies be able to adjust their goals and strategies.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

“Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn’t happen by accident.”
― Brian E Boyd, Social Media for the Executive: Maximize Your Brand and Monetize Your Business

“The decisions we make in the boardroom eventually show themselves in the company's performance.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from the start.”
― Brian E Boyd, Social Media for the Executive: Maximize Your Brand and Monetize Your Business

“Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.”
― Brian E Boyd, Social Media for the Executive: Maximize Your Brand and Monetize Your Business

“A true professional not only follows but loves the processes, policies and principles set by his profession.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Overworking is the Black Plague of the 21st Century. Leave the office on time by using the time you have effectively. An executive at a Fortune 100 told me that to him, if you stay at work late, that means 'you’re slow.”
― Richie Norton

“Brands that will survive and thrive from now on are those with C-level executives that understand the incredible opportunity new media offers them and commit to excellence in managing their social media presence.”
― Brian E Boyd, Social Media for the Executive: Maximize Your Brand and Monetize Your Business

“It is far better to have 10,000 Facebook friends who are in the same category or aligned with your values or a common inter- est than 100,000 random robot followers from around the world.”
― Brian E Boyd, Social Media for the Executive: Maximize Your Brand and Monetize Your Business

“…golf was no longer the most popular sport among the corporate czars because they found playing with natural balls much more satisfying.”
― Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

“Shouldn't it be made a crime to vie for a position you can't deliver? We have a confused and compromised executive and an assembly of pigs providing checks and balances in Kenya.”
― DON SANTO

“The fundamental priority of every business is to create value for its customers or clients — to improve their lives in some way through the products or services being sold by the business.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, 4 Business Lessons From Jesus: A businessmans interpretation of Jesus' teachings, applied in a business context.

“Bottled water is another example. Free, high-quality water is available in much of the developed world. But the developed world is exactly where the majority of bottled water is consumed. In 2012, in the U.S. alone, we spent $11.8 billion dollars on bottled water. Because packaging is a fixed price and water is a low-priced com- modity, what exactly are we paying the rest of the money for? The answer is that much of the value is tied up in the brand, the idea, how it makes you feel, the creativity.”
― Alan Philips, The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential

“The destruction of representative government and private capitalism of the old school was complete when Hitler came to power. He had contributed mightily to the final result by his ceaseless labors to create chaos. But when he stepped into the chancellery all the ingredients of national socialist dictatorship were there ready to his hand…

The aim in which Bismarck had failed was accomplished almost at a stroke in the Weimar Constitution – the subordination of the individual states to the federal state. The old imperial state had to depend on the constituent states to provide it with a part of its funds. Now this was altered, and the central government of the republic became the great imposer and collector of taxes, paying to the states each a share. Slowly the central government absorbed the powers of the states. The problems of business groups and social groups were all brought to Berlin. The republican Reichstag, unlike its imperial predecessor, was now charged with the vast duty of managing almost every energy of the social and economic life of the republic. German states were always filled with bureaus, so that long before World War I travelers referred to the ‘bureaucratic tyrannies’ of the empire. But now the bureaus became great centralized organisms of the federal government dealing with the multitude of problems which the Reichstag as completely incapable of handling. Quickly, the actual function of governing leaked out of the parliament into the hands of the bureaucrats. The German republic became a paradise of bureaucracy on a scale which the old imperial government never knew. The state, with its powers enhanced by the acquisition of immense economic powers and those powers brought to the center of government and lodged in the executive, was slowly becoming, notwithstanding its republican appearance, a totalitarian state that was almost unlimited in its powers.”
― John T. Flynn, As We Go Marching: A Biting Indictment of the Coming of Domestic Fascism in America

“You don’t need to be an executive owner of a multi-billion international company to show that you are a leader; you need “a discovered self” to optimize and become a leader.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“One Friday afternoon at the close of the working day the idiot bosses in their fucking ties and suit coats came down and handed out pink slips to every other person on the floor. I got one. They were firing us. Then they turned and, without a word, went back to their offices. Corporate pricks.”
― John William Tuohy, No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care

“What is so unique about coaching female business executives is the fact they approach taking executive business decisions the same way they approach matching two pieces of cloths they will wear going to a cocktail party or to a classic concert . To my surprise this turned to be something that teaches me deeper business dimensions male executives are not privileged with.”
― Sameh Elsayed

“In boardrooms, bald is beautiful”
― Nipun Varma, Adventures of an Indian Techie

“World's biggest bluff acts happen inside boardrooms”
― Nipun Varma, Adventures of an Indian Techie

“The value of creativity is the difference between the branded price and the commodity price of a product, service, idea, or person.”
― Alan Philips, The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential

“Your job as an entrepreneur or executive or project creator is to set things in motion, not do it all yourself!”
― Richie Norton

“When the president theanthropize himself in matters leadership and governance and takes the constitution and its guardians secondary to his decisions, the chief Justice should assume the role of the deicide of the alloyed beast. If he shows signs of the faint-hearted, the judiciary firewalls become weak to not withstand the threats posed by the executive thus turning into the executive's de facto corporation. This is how autocracy is midwived!”
― Njau Kihia

“The point being, everyone knows a celebratory redemption story, one where the person in question overcomes adversity and becomes the main character in an undeniably remarkable turnaround story.
But there's nothing but ridicule for the ones who never turn things around.
Like the socialite whose ex-husband was arrested on a money laundering charge and is now an outcast among her former upscale circle. Or the father who abandoned everything for his mistress and now lives an isolated existence in a run-down apartment with no mistress, ex-wife, or kids. Or the bank executive who embezzled money and lost it all only to wind up living under a forty-second street bridge with his close friend Jack Daniels. Or the beauty queen who fell victim to a botched facelift and now curses her existence behind two-inch thick, closed miniblinds.
No one celebrates the fallen and discarded because no one wants to admit it could happen to them. But we're all just one misstep away from living an upside-down life while the rest of the world points out all the ways we deserve it.”
― Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally