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• Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential. And to do that, I insist you throw caution to the wind, ignore the pleas of parents, coaches, spouses, and bosses to be "realistic."

  John Eliot

  Success, Wind, People

  John Eliot (2006). “Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

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

  Kaoru

  Thinking, Instructors, Ifs

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• You are the only boss you have. And I want you to be the most demanding boss that you can be. If you really want to make a success of this business, then you must put yourself on a schedule.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Schedules, Want, Ifs

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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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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• The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution. What is dangerous about it is that we do not see it, cannot use it, and are compelled to submit to it.

  Walter Lippmann

  Horse, Government, Play

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• Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Achievement, Brain

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• My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.

  Henny Youngman

  Brother, Jobs, Giving Up

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• Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.

  Aminu Kano

  Leader, Want, Servant

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• Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other.

  Ernesto Sabato

  Dream, Book, Office

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• People think if you're a movie star, you're the boss. But first of all, I'm not a movie star, I'm in a very different place. I'm not looking to do what I want - I am looking for what we can find. It's a creative process.

  Rutger Hauer

  Stars, Thinking, People

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• Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.

  Julian Baggini

  Emotional, Expression, Example

  "Calm? Why should I be calm?" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 02, 2009.

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• Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.

  Peter Drucker

  Stupid, Risk, Brain

  "Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1992.

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• If you are hired to shake up the system, do it. No one will believe you're the boss until you do one or more of the following: 1. Add a new division; 2. Lop off a present department; 3. Add new people or reassign and reward present employees; 4. Get rid of deadwood; 5. Change the method of accounting; 6. Change lawyers, accountants, or other outside services; 7. Ask a lot of questions, and demand answers by a certain date; 8. Get in touch with key people in your industry or city and arrange personal meetings; 9. Improve working conditions; 10. Update present benefit plans.

  Lois Wyse

  Believe, Cities, Keys

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• If I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I will go in. I like real estate because I am the boss.

  Lorraine Bracco

  Real, Home, House

  "Bankruptcy? Tougher Than Counseling a Soprano" by Geraldine Fabrikant, www.nytimes.com. January 1, 2006.

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• I am the boss of me. You can't change anyone else. Women think they can. But you know what? You can't.

  Lorraine Bracco

  Thinking, Can't Change, Knows

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• My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.

  Bette Midler

  Teacher, Sibling, Independent

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• I'm a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.

  Tom Ford

  Children, My Family, Natural

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

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• I remember Robin [Williams] walked up to me after the last take and said, "Thanks boss! We nailed it!" That will probably be one of the best moments of my life.

  Roberto Aguire

  Robins, Lasts, Thanks

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• If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Children, Fire, Abuse

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• Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

  Ruth Simmons

  School, California, Southern

  "I Was Impossible, but Then I Saw How to Lead". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. December 3, 2011.

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