Executive Decision Quotes

I would prefer to let the president make the decisions that the president needs to make.

Mr. President. You ought to fire him [General Douglas MacArthur.]

The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice.

An important quality for a President of the United States is to make decisions and live with the consequences of them

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.

The president has already decided that terrorists do not receive Geneva Convention protections. You cannot question his decision.

It is not my call ... it is not for the judicial branch to decide.

I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, 'The kids love this!'

No President is going to say, “I am not going to preempt.” This is simply a reality.

Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.

Although the president has the power to remove an FBI director, the decision should not be taken lightly.

I met with President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in February. So he'd been in office about a month. It was for an hour. Went over there on a Saturday. They invite... Reince Priebus called and said, "The president wants to see you." He never once asked me what I thought. He never asked me once what he thought I ought to do. He never asked me what I think of this or that. My impression is this man is more self-informed and decisive.

… with the stroke of a pen.

We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.

When I was appointed deputy president, I accepted it, and it is the president's prerogative to appoint or remove anyone to the Executive.

If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk by putting American boys in, I believe that the executive branch of the government has to take the politically unpopular position of facing up to it and doing it, and I personally would support such a decision.

My advice would be the same advice that I gave President [George W.] Bush when he won in '04, and, kind of, wasn't followed. I think you go with the things you know you can pass.

My impression of Donald Trump, just having been around him. I don't think Trump needs a lot of advisers. I don't think Trump's sitting up there not knowing what he thinks, not knowing what he thinks is best. I don't think that as these things come and go, he runs around, "What do you think I should do?" I think what happens is he makes up his mind he wants to do something and then asks people how's the best way to make it happen. He goes and talks to the military.

NBC executives say that if Donald Trump does run for president, they will not renew The Apprentice. So some good may come out of this.

I think a CEO lives or dies in whether he's been able to hold on to elements of culture that are needed in the company.

[Gerald Rudolph ] Ford pardoned Richard Nixon to save everybody that, and the Democrats were ticked about it.

When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.

Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act.

A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.