Boss Quotes - Page 33

• Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

  Charles Edison

  Government, Democratic Ideals, Democracy

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• No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already ... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Talking

  "Brown University student uncovers lost Malcolm X speech". www.nj.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.

  Charlie Day

  New York, Lines, Tables

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• I'm not taking maternity leave from 'Big Brother.' I e-mailed my boss over there this weekend and I said, 'Don't worry. I can still do the show!

  Julie Chen

  Brother, Weekend, Worry

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• My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Strong, Husband, Home

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• Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

  Robert Jarvik

  Inspirational, Leadership, Fear

  "At theNAT, building a family". Interview with Lisa Deaderick, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 4, 2016.

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• Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

  Kin Hubbard

  Fate, Destiny, Funny Work

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• Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Believe, Unique

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.210, Basic Books

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• I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

  Richard J. Daley

  Leader, Lasts, Firsts

  "American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation". Book by Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor, 2001.

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• My only goal was to make the largest profit possible for my employer. I was caught in a spiral that - with the support of my bosses - continued to lead up and up.

  Jerome Kerviel

  Goal, Support, Spirals

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jobs, Work, Ambition

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• The first myth of management is that it exists.

  Robert Heller

  Firsts, Management, Myth

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• If we're honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a bad husband ... you find that he tends to do more good than harm. He might be a bad boss but at least he's employing someone while he is in fact a boss.

  Tony Abbott

  Husband, Father, Littles

  "Tony Abbott under fire". AM with Linda Mottram, www.abc.net.au. July 2 , 2002.

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• A party should not contain utterly incongruous elements, radically divided on the real issues, and acting together only on false and dead issues insincerely painted as real and vital. It should not in the several States as well as in the Nation be prostituted to the service of the baser type of political boss. It should be so composed that there should be a reasonable agreement in the actions taken by it both in the Nation and in the several States. Judged by these standards, both of the old parties break down.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Party, Taken

  "Platform Insincerity". The Outlook Magazine, Vol. 101, No. 13, p. 660, July 27, 1912.

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• The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Party, Political, Machines

  "Platform Insincerity". The Outlook Magazine, Vol. 101, No. 13, p. 660, July 27, 1912.

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• He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.

  Franz Kafka

  Brain, Tools, Metamorphosis

  Franz Kafka (2014). “Metamorphosis: The original story by Franz Kafka as well as important analysis”, p.3, BoD – Books on Demand

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• There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.

  Klaus Balkenhol

  Motivational, Leadership, Differences

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• I am in control of my career, and that's what so many actors don't take advantage of. You get to these successful points, and you continue to just work for other people. But, when you're your own brand and you're your own boss, the whole line of work changes. That's my biggest turn on.

  Kevin Hart

  Successful, Careers, People

  "Kevin Hart Talks About Last Night, Edging Out Other Romantic Comedies, Pushing the Envelope, Balancing Comedy and Drama, and Improvising on Set". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 24, 2013.

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• We can't rely on others to be our teachers anymorethe future belongs to individuals who decide to become great bosses (and teachers).

  Seth

  Teacher, Individual, Rely

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• All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Jobs, Asking Why, People

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• Your turn Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do that.

  Seth

  World, Imagine, Folks

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• If your boss gets drunk and offers to photocopy her posterior, do not helpfully suggest pressing reduce 75%.

  Scott Adams

  Drunk, Stupidity, Offers

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• Do any of us actually want to live in a world where your boss can decide that he or she is morally opposed to mental health care? What if your employer was morally opposed to getting x-rays or antibiotics? How about just being forced to disclose your private medical information to your employer?

  Richard Carmona

  What If, Just Being, Rays

  "Arizona Effort to Block Contraception Simply Bad Health Policy" by Richard Carmona, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

  Aldous Huxley

  Powerful, Army, Brave New World

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, "Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?" To which the man responded, "That's your worry.

  Max Lucado

  Jobs, Men, Years

  Max Lucado (2009). “Traveling Light: Premier Library Edition”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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