Now, we are seeing many of these same companies face the truth about their financial standing. Congress is faced with the challenge of reforming our accounting industry and holding corporate executives responsible for their actions.
Many of my executives have worked with me since the beginning. I can be fair and decisive and encouraging as well as demanding.
I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.
It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.
An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue.
Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.
Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
What great executives do is not magic. Their performance is made possible by specific, identifiable skills.
The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit.
Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.
Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but not writers, workers but not managers, bookkeepers but not promoters.
I used to scream at everybody at the beginning of my career. I'd get really emotional. I'd project all my issues about my parents and safety onto the executives, so every conversation where they gave a note was life or death and you don't love me.
A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.
Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example. This means getting rid of the bad apples and declining opportunities that bring instant wealth at the cost of selling one's soul.