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• My best and worst boss was the same man - my father. He never - and I mean never - took 'I can't' for an answer. He taught me the value system that, to this day, I have continued to practice.

  George Steinbrenner

  Father, Mean, Men

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• Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain in my book.

  James Altucher

  Hate, Book, Definitions

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• The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine.

  Paul Haggis

  Long, Towns, Directors

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• The feedback women are getting at work is amazingly ineffective or vague. You need to signal to your boss or senior colleagues that you want honest feedback, and that you promise not to take it too personally.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Senior, Promise, Needs

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• They don't want you to wear the Saint Lauren fur, they don't want you to break App Store, they don't want you to be the biggest boss in the game. So what we go'n do is we go'n win more.

  DJ Khaled

  Winning, Games, Saint

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• I don't like having a teaching job - office hours and conferences and committees and bosses and all that - but I tend to enjoy teaching, and I design the course in such a way that there'll be pleasure in that.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Jobs, Teaching, Office

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• The fact is, though, what I think we really like is Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and James Gandolfini. We like what the media has created of the mob bosses in movies and TV and books, because it's something the average person never comes into contact with, it's almost as outwardly outlandish as a sexy vampire, and so we can romanticize it, it's non-threatening.

  Tod Goldberg

  Sexy, Book, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail.

  Ricky Gervais

  Naughty, Jail, Looks

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• 'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason.

  Stefanie Powers

  People, Reason, Boss Day

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• I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men. They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was trying to fool with them. And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along the Desplaines river and I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with their women and children and a keg of beer and an accordion.

  Carl Sandburg

  Children, Beer, Sunday

  Carl Sandburg, (2013). “Chicago Poems”, p.27, Read Books Ltd

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• We're out of time, Payton. You said it yourself: the only way we'll make it is for us to go into this together. I know we can do this. But I need you to believe it. You need to believe... in us." Peyton didn't say anything for a long moment, and J.D. could literally hear his heart beating. Then she finally answered. "It would have to be called Kendall and Jameson." It took J.D a moment to catch on. Then he grinned. "No way. Jameson and Kendall. It's alphabetical." "You told our boss that you banged me on top of your desk." "Kendall and Jameson sounds great

  Julie James

  Believe, Heart, Long

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• I did work in a bakery for one day. But the boss went off and when he came back I was lying on the floor eating cakes.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Lying, Humor

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• If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Daughter, Equality, Class

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.10, Routledge

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• The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  President, Vices, Millions

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• In Sales, you have to satisfy two people: One, your customer. Two, your Boss.

  Praveen Kumar

  Leadership, Two, People

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• These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: "What do you do?" is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Jobs, Party, Self

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2006.

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• Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as "employee satisfaction results" - might improve.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Naps, Might, Satisfaction

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Attitude, Unemployment, Demand

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2006.

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• Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.

  Naomie Harris

  Advice, Honest, Graduates

  "My first boss: Naomie Harris". Interview with Tola Awogbamiye, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2003.

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• He's my neophyte Downworlder to mock and boss around, not yours.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fallen Angels, Jace, Mock

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1518, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't get fired." "You didn't punch your boss and get fired from the Tribune? That's what I heard." "I punched what could loosely be called a colleague for cribbing my notes on a story and since the editor–who happened to be the asshole's uncle–took his word over mine, I quit." "To write books. Is it fun?" "I guess it is." "I bet you killed the asshole in the first one you wrote." "You'd be right. Beat him to death with a shovel. Very satisfying.

  Nora Roberts

  Uncles, Fun, Book

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• I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong views.

  Tony Judt

  Strong, Writing, Views

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• Obama is talking to voters as though he is their boss, or their principal, or their father. He is not any of those things. He is their employee. And employers don't like it when their employees yell at them - even if their employees have it right.

  John Podhoretz

  Father, Talking, Voters

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• I'd just thank the people out there who have been with my up-and-down, weird-road, strange career and supported me and stuck with me all these years. I mean, they're my boss. That's what keeps me working.

  Johnny Depp

  Mean, Years, Careers

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• I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.

  Adam Oates

  Communication, Hypocrite, Player

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