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Definition of Executive
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

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
James Madison

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
Garet Garrett

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.
James Cash Penney

Executive Translations

executive in Italian is esecutivo, esercente


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