Executive
Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct of affairs; as, executive power or authority; executive duties, officer, department, etc.
An impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the government, whether king, president, or governor; the governing person or body.
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Executive Quotations
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Thomas Jefferson
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.
Steven Wright
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
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
James Madison
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Earl Nightingale
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
Fred Allen
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
Richard M. Nixon
I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.
Gerald R. Ford
Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
J. K. Rowling
Executive Translations
executive in Italian is esecutivo, esercente
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