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The essence of a cohesive leadership team is trust, which is marked by an absence of politics, unnecessary anxiety, and wasted energy. Every executive wants to achieve this, but few are able to do so because they fail to understand the roots of these problems, the most damaging of which is politics.
- Patrick Lencioni
I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
- Joseph Heller
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'
- CS Lewis
If to condemn does not mean to make wicked, to justify does not mean to make good. And if condemnation is a judicial, as opposed to an executive act, so is justification. In condemnation it is a judge who pronounces sentence on the guilty.
- Charles Hodge
Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it.
- Henry Cloud
It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
- Alexander Hamilton
Conservatives may be right when they argue that the government should not try to determine executive pay packages. But conservatives should at least be willing to speak out against unseemly behavior in corporate boardrooms with the same moral force, the same sense of outrage that they direct against dirty rap lyrics.
- Barack Obama
I was an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I've always had to manage both. I couldn't get a record deal. It wasn't by choice - I couldn't get a record deal, so I had to figure it out.
- Jay-Z
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
- George W. Bush
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
- Andrew Jackson
A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community, require time to mature them for execution. An army, so large as seriously to menace those liberties, could only be formed by progressive augmentations; which would suppose, not merely a temporary combination between the legislature and executive, but a continued conspiracy for a series of time.
- Alexander Hamilton