Boss Quotes - Page 27

• I am tired of the warmakers making war with our children. I am tired of our tired troops being sent over to do the dirty work for mob bosses who are going to squeeze the life out of Iraq and not leave until every asset and every natural resource has been raped from the country. I am tired of seeing Iraqis burying their loved ones and hearing the reverberating screams of mothers all over our country who are being destroyed for the benefit of a very few.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Mother, Country, Children

  Personal Blog, January 15, 2007.

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• We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep down, we like confusing people who are stuffier and less mentally agile than we are, especially when they're bosses. There's a little bit of the mad scientist in all hackers, ready to discombobulate the world and flip authority the finger - especially if we can do it with snazzy special effects.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Fun, People, Mad

  "Guest Editorial: World Domination". www.linuxjournal.com. January 1, 2000.

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• Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle. So, in that sense, novels are easier because you don't have to answer to anyone. And then, you go into something like film and there are more cooks in the kitchen, so to speak.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Winning, Kitchen, Battle

  Source: collider.com

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• If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him.

  Warren Farrell

  Female, Like Her, Employee

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Throughout Ronnie's presidency, there was an ongoing public discussion as to how much influence the first lady should have on the president. It's hardly a new problem. As long as mankind has lived in groups, there's always been a question of how to handle the boss's wife.

  Nancy Reagan

  Should Have, Long, Wife

  Nancy Reagan (2011). “My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan”, p.75, Random House

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• I know that a Christian should be humble, but against the Pope I am going to be proud and say to him: "You, Pope, I will not have you for my boss, for I am sure that my doctrine is divine.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Humble, Doctrine

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.28, Lulu.com

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• Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally the pattern has been one of man, the boss, the caretaker of creation, the namer, appearing and the lower orders hitting the road.

  Tibor Fischer

  Men, Doors, Order

  Tibor Fischer (1997). “The Thought Gang”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Certainly businesses the world over are facing greater competitive pressure than ever before, and this leads to executive stress which, in turn, tends to bring out authoritarian tendencies in many bosses. To balance this, we now know a lot more about how we can successfully cope with a situation that is not likely to improve in the near future.

  Srikumar Rao

  Stress, Balance, World

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• One of my bosses happened to be one of the early architects of some of the ways Internet providers work. He taught me how the cables connect, how the telecom providers work... I learned how to make my own Ethernet cables, all the way up to running a small business.

  David Ulevitch

  Running, Way, Taught

  "Meet David Ulevitch, CEO of OpenDNS" by Suzanne Herel, www.sfgate.com. September 26, 2010.

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• I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Views, Chess, Pawns

  "Best Actress Nominee Jennifer Lawrence Heats Up Winter’s Bone". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2011.

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• Nobody wants to disappoint the boss and get fired. But if the boss hasn't said this is important, it's going to die a slow death in bureaucracy and that explains a lot of the problems.

  Robert M. Edsel

  Important, Want, Problem

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When you run an organization like the Teamsters one man has to be the boss and run things.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Running, Men, Organization

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 22-23), 1975.

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• The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated him like a person.

  Philip Yancey

  God, People, Parent

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• A wedding is the formality a man has to go through before going to work for a new boss.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Going To Work, Formality

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• As this VP discovered, being a boss is much like being a high-status primate in any group: the creatures beneath you in the pecking order watch every move you make – and so they know a lot more about you than you know about them.

  Bob Sutton

  Moving, Order, Groups

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• My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

  Scott Walker

  Leader, Unions, Way

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• If you boss you think you can your instructor around, you won't learn.

  Kaoru

  Thinking, Instructors, Ifs

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• I admit, I was fascinated by Adolf Hitler. He was a pleasant boss and a fatherly friend.

  Traudl Junge

  Pleasant, Fascinated

  "In Hitler's Bunker: A Boy Soldier's Eyewitness Account of the Fuhrer's Last Days" by Armin D. Lehmann and Tim Carroll, (p. 91), 2005.

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• People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Success, Business

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician.

  Mao Zedong

  Teacher, Movement, Politician

  Zedong Mao (1971). “Mao Tse-tung chu tso hsüan tu”

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• This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'

  Jane Pauley

  Funny, Office, Giving

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• If newsmen do not tell the truth as they see it because it might make waves, or if their bosses decide something should or should not be broadcast because of Washington or Main Street consequences, we have dishonored ourselves and we have lost the First Amendment by default.

  Richard S. Salant

  America, Might, Firsts

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• When you accept that you are not in charge of everything, you can begin to work with the one who really is in charge. This has been my experience; when I accepted that I was not in charge and started to work with someone else's plan, the Boss showed up. Now we are a team and I have less to be concerned about. He organizes my schedule. I just follow it, and when He is taking a day off my wife steps in.

  Bernie Siegel

  Team, Acceptance, Wife

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• Editors and reporters are not as free and independent to invite a variety of opinions as they might think. They are free to say what they like only as long as their bosses like what they say. They are free to produce what they want if their product remains within acceptable political boundaries. You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when your stray that you feel the restraining tug.

  Michael Parenti

  Independent, Thinking, Media

  Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.150, City Lights Books

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• People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Party, Goal, People

  "No Third Way Out: An Interview with Vaclav Klaus". Interview with John Fund, reason.com. June 1, 1990.

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