Boss Quotes - Page 34

• Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.

  Tina Fey

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, 2011.

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• I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any difference whether it was fiction or nonfiction or short stories or whatever. I just - that's what I was destined to do.

  Frank Deford

  Writing, Editors, Differences

  Source: www.pbs.org

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  The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leadership, Patriotic, Voice

  Woodrow Wilson (1965). “The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you are one of us, if your cousin knows our cousin, if your little sister went to school with our big brother, if you go to the same Baptist church as our ex-boss. We are looking for ways our stories fit together.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Cousin, Brother, School

  Sue Monk Kidd (2011). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.67, Hachette UK

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• The only relaxed boss is Big Ron. He had me drinking pink champagne - before the match.

  Harry Redknapp

  Drinking, Champagne, Bigs

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• because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

  Stephen King

  Men, Hardest

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which is alive everywhere in Russia except where there are Jewish Marxists. I have always made allowance for this circumstance, and given orders that former Communists are to be admitted to the party at once. The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communist always will.

  Adolf Hitler

  Party, Order, Russia

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• I never was taught how to go into a meeting and talk about a tour and how to plan a show, but seeing that side of things [about] someone who wants to be a Unicorn but has to now be a boss and navigate this is a really powerful and interesting story.

  Lilly Singh

  Powerful, Interesting, Stories

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I think after overcoming breast cancer, you sort of become fearless and somehow going up to your boss to talk about a possible promotion doesn't seem like such a daunting task anymore.

  Hoda Kotb

  Cancer, Thinking, Fearless

  "5 Minutes with Hoda Kotb". Interview by Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 12, 2010.

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• The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Real, Economy, Consumers

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.20, VM eBooks

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• In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Mean, Top Management

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any 'abuse' came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Powerful, Order, Abuse

  "NBC Uses Lewinsky Interview to Silence Talk of Clinton Scandals". www.newsbusters.org. April 18, 2016.

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• Speak what I want, I don't care what y'all feel. 'Cause I'm my own master, my Pop told me be your own boss. Keep integrity at every cost.

  Nas

  Motivational, Integrity, Hip Hop

  Song: Bridging The Gap 12", Album: Street's Disciple, 2004

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• If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Children, Parent

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• For in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, "hold office"; every one of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the final analysis, the kind of government we get depends upon how we fulfill those responsibilities. We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.

  John F. Kennedy

  Courage, Responsibility, Government

  Selected Quotations from John F. Kennedy's Book "Profiles in Courage", www.jfklibrary.org. 1957.

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• A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

  Witter Bynner

  Leadership, People, Tao Te Ching

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• Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.

  Ina May Gaskin

  World, Want, Birth

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• Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life based on freedom of the individual, without the intervention of the gendarme. For this reason we are the enemies of capitalism which depends on the protection of the gendarme to oblige workers to allow themselves to be exploited--or even to remain idle and go hungry when it is not in the interest of the bosses to exploit them. We are therefore enemies of the State which is the coercive violent organization of society.

  Errico Malatesta

  Organization, Enemy, Anarchy

  Errico Malatesta (2015). “Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta”, p.45, PM Press

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• Set higher standards for you own performance than anyone around you, and it won't matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won't matter whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you'll be competing with yourself.

  Rick Pitino

  Competition, Matter, Pushing

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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• In every position that I've been in, there have been naysayers who don't believe I'm qualified or who don't believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Believe, Responsibility, Special

  "As A Latina, Sonia Sotomayor Says, 'You Have To Work Harder'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 13, 2014.

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• The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Inspirational, Stress, Kids

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• A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Leader

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• Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

  David Ogilvy

  People, Giving, Excellence

  David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.70, Profile Books

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• America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.

  Tom Morello

  Jobs, Exercise, Land

  "Modern Happiness: Springsteen and the American Dream" by Craig Werner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2012.

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• A good man likes a hard boss. I don't mean a nagging boss or a grouchy boss. I mean a boss who insists on things being done right and on time; a boss who is watching things closely enough so that he knows a good job from a poor one. Nothing is more discouraging to a good man than a boss who is not on the job, and who does not know whether things are going well or badly.

  William Feather

  Leadership, Jobs, Mean

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