Subordinates Quotes

• Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Boss, Way, Owners

  Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears (2002). “Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness”, p.73, Paulist Press

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• Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Responsibility, Giving, Credit

  "Nineteen Stars: A Study in Military Character and Leadership". Book by Edgar F. Puryear Jr., p. 289, 1971.

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• He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.

  William Feather

  Real, Responsibility, Boss

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• Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

  Arleigh Burke

  Leadership, Navy, Use

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• If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

  Dee Hock

  Leadership, Tyranny, Knows

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• Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

  John Churton Collins

  Inspirational, Faults, Mistrust

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• Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

  Don Marquis

  Funny Inspirational, Business, Work

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• I believe that presidents up through and including George Bush have known that Americans were left alive and in violation of law, these high officials and certain of their appointed subordinates have continued and perpetrated a cover up of this reality.

  Bo Gritz

  Believe, Reality, Law

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• He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

  Milan Kundera

  Anger, Conflict, Intimidating

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• Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

  David Riesman

  Work, May, Helping

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.176, Transaction Publishers

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• It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.

  Stephen Covey

  Thinking, Purpose, Want

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.68, Mango Media Inc.

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• I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Jail, Prison

  Twitter post from Mar 04, 2017

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• Politics is a subordinate matter; its form of appearance constantly changes depending on the needs of the masses, the same way cocottes adjust to the needs of men by transforming and masking themselves. Because of that it is not fundamental. That is about what endures, what is unique, what is in the stream of illusions - what is eliminated from the workings of the shadows.

  Max Beckmann

  Men, Unique, Shadow

  Max Beckmann (2013). “On My Painting - Max Beckmann”, p.4, Tate Enterprises Ltd

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• Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Numbers, Prestige, Administrators

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• If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place

  Attila the Hun

  Ranking, Incompetent, Ifs

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• This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture... The basic attitude from which such activity arises, we call-to distinguish it from egoism and selfishness-idealism. By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

  Adolf Hitler

  Attitude, Sacrifice, Men

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Chapter 11, Ralph Manheim translation, 1925.

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• Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.‎

  John Dewey

  Education, Science, Reality

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• ... a meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive.

  John Leo

  Hands, Executives

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• You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

  Jurgen E. Schrempp

  Business, Evening

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• At no time and in no circumstances should a Communist place his personal interests first; he should subordinate them to the interests of the nation and of the masses. Hence, selfishness, slacking, corruption, seeking the limelight, and so on, are most contemptible, while selflessness, working with all one's energy, whole-hearted devotion to public duty, and quiet hard work will command respect.

  Mao Zedong

  Hard Work, Selfishness, Firsts

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.137, Lulu.com

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• Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.

  Sandra Bartky

  Body, Hierarchy, Language

  Sandra Lee Bartky (1990). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.74, Psychology Press

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• A wife is not a man's shadow or subordinate, but his other self, his "helper," in a sense which no other creature on earth can be.

  Joseph Hertz

  Men, Self, Wife

  Joseph Herman Hertz (1936). “Hamishah Humshe Torah Im Ha-Hafterot: Genesis”

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• The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses, as he was soon in the habit of quipping during Happy Hour pickup time at the local campus bars and pubs. He couldn’t say he was looking forward to it, this rest-of-his-life.

  Margaret Atwood

  Long, Bars, Looking Forward

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “Oryx And Crake”, p.106, Hachette UK

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• I think one of the greatest losses to humanity was the domination of women. I think every religious system has found ways to be kind to them in a kind of subordinate way. Very patronizing, very colonial. But if you start looking at the fabric of society, even religious systems, they would fall apart if it wasn't for the embedded ability of the women who are involved.

  William P. Young

  Religious, Women, Fall

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• Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Reality, People, Different

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