Even the most cautious executives then feel pressure to report their earnings even more optimistically, in turn creating room for their more aggressive counterparts to push the envelope further.
The university had reason to be cautious, Thomas J. LeBlanc, executive vice president and provost, said in an interview.
As he presented the retailer's stellar results, Next's usually cautious chief executive, Lord Wolfson, gave one of his most upbeat verdicts on the economy for years, suggesting consumers could finally begin to feel they had more cash in their pockets.
The words of a cautious chief executive?
Gothic romance distilled into four-and-a-half minutes of gaseous rhapsody, this was released as her first single at Bush's insistence in the face of opposition from seasoned and cautious EMI executives; wilfulness vindicated by the month it spent at the top of the charts.
By staying "outside the system", Bussmann will avoid the dreaded red pens of over-cautious television executives, and, she hopes, will make the sitcom she wants to make, and that fans want to see.
His instincts as a cautious Fortune 500 executive chairman kick in.
"Corporations are going to begin resuming business travel, but they're going to continue being cautious," said Marianne McInerney, executive director of the group.
Other couples are being more cautious, including Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Taskforce, who lives in New York and wants to marry his partner, Francisco DeLeon.
