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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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• 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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• 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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• I’m single, I’m enjoying life. Being a boss. Like all true bosses, one day you gotta give it up.

  Rick Ross

  Giving, Enjoy Life, One Day

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• Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career.

  Jack Welch

  Skills, Careers, Make Or Break

  "Jack Welch on the one skill that can make or break your career" by Jack Welch, www.businessinsider.com. July 16, 2015.

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• A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad!

  Alan Beck

  Dream, Hope, Art

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• I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where you're the total boss of everything!

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Trying, Done, Comedy

  "Lunch Date: Rosie O'Donnell". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. August 30, 2006.

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• It's very hard to be perceived as a boss, and behaving like a boss or wanting to be treated like one.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Treated, Hard

  "Interview: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy; She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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• Donald Trump is going to make an announcement about running for President on the season finale of Celebrity Apprentice. Not to be outdone, the same night the Cake Boss will reveal his plan for overhauling Medicare.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Night, Cake

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• I have no boss but my conscience.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Conscience

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• We're not in cultures which support learning; we're in cultures that give us the message consistently: "Don't mess up, don't make mistakes, don't make the boss look bad, don't give us any surprises." So we're asking for a kind of predictability, control, respect, and compliance that has nothing to do with learning.

  Walter Wriston

  Mistake, Giving, Support

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• Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. Stop trying to change reality. That's crazy! Stop trying to change the other person. We spend all our time and energy trying to change external circumstances, trying to change our spouses, our bosses, our friends, our enemies, and everybody else. We don't have to change anything. Negative feelings are in you.

  Anthony de Mello

  Crazy, Reality, Feelings

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.79, Image

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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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