Executive Quotations | Page 6

Social media is a really cool way to tell your story to people who are interested in hearing it. It's not getting put through the filter of a television executive who's decided you're too old to justify the expenditure.

Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the board has inappropriately chosen to silence my concerns through termination as an executive officer.

She's not the first very strong executive to leave a dot.com that's had its stock go down.

Some categories of classified information are protected by statute and not only by executive order. Intelligence sources and methods are protected by the National Security Act and cannot be declassified even by the say-so of the president.

Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema.

Show me a chief executive who's on five boards and who lends his or her name, prestige and time to 15 community activities - and I'll show you a company that's underperforming. A chief executive is paid to run the company. That's the CEO's job.

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.

I think AOL has been hammered a lot because of concerns about free (Internet) service, about their slowing growth internationally and a few other issues including broadband, ... But you can't argue with 18 million customers. And of course their customer turnover rate has never been (lower). So, the company is holding to their customers longer, they have a much larger base. I think (Chief Executive Officer) Steve Case will find a way to make it through these issues.

Senior retail management is increasingly hard to find right now, ... A lot of the top executives have been around for a long time and they're still working on the premise that sales are driven by value for price and assortment.

Senior executives may find themselves facing decisions other pre-retirees don't need to consider. For instance, they may have a large portion of their net worth invested in employer stock and still feel strong ties to that employer. And for former executives who have a great deal of their net worth tied up in stock options, this can pose a dilemma: how can they balance their need to diversify with their desire to maintain involvement with the company and benefit from its future success?