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• I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn't get banks to fund me; I couldn't recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn't want to deal with women.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Numbers, People, Challenges

  "Women at Work: Biocon Founder on Philanthropy, Sexism and Politics". Interview with Atish Patel, blogs.wsj.com. June 18, 2013.

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• I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any conflict with any directors because I know they're the boss.

  Danny Trejo

  Directors, Actors, Conflict

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• I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.

  Ron Paul

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

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• Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.

  Seth Godin

  People, Giving, Expectations

  "Seth Godin: On Passion, Fighting Resistance & Being Weird". Experian Interview, www.experian.com.

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• I've got an odd, negative bond with C. Montgomery Burns. He reminds a lot of people of bosses they've worked for. He certainly reminds me of someone I'm working for.

  Harry Shearer

  People, Negative, Odd

  "Harry Shearer: The Voices in My Head". Interview with Tim Noakes, www.dazeddigital.com. May 14, 2015.

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• It used to be you rose up through the ranks, and by the time you got a job as a boss, you had done the work of everybody beneath you.

  Suzy Welch

  Jobs, Rose, Done

  "Jack and Suzy Welch: Why Strong Leadership Is about Truth and Trust". Knowledge@Wharton Interview, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. May 8, 2015.

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• No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

  Cybill Shepherd

  Men

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• When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.

  Jim Brown

  Stars, Two, Directors

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• What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Effort, Around The World, Emergencies

  "We Need An Emergency Boss" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2010.

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• My boss seems to think that my hair is gonna fall off & go into the ice cream. This hair ain't movin' my dude. 150mph on the highway on a street bike it doesn't move! What makes you think it's gonna move in a gelato shop?

  Pauly D

  Moving, Fall, Thinking

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• Paraguay has had a U.S. supermarket boss as its ambassador for a while. He did the job well. He was there because he wanted to be there. Rather than the British diplomat who didn't want to be there.

  John Gimlette

  Jobs, Ambassadors, Want

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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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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• In putting together your standards, remember that it is essential to involve your entire team. Standards are not rules issued by the boss; they are a collective identity. Remember, standards are the things that you do all the time and the things for which you hold one another accountable.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Team, Together, Identity

  Mike Krzyzewski (2009). “The Gold Standard: Building a World-Class Team”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• My relationship with George Steinbrenner was great. He was the boss, and I accepted that.

  Joe Torre

  Accepted

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• President Bush broke the law and lied to the American people when he unilaterally authorized secret wiretaps of U.S. citizens. But rather than focus on this constitutional crisis, Attorney General Gonzales is cracking down on critics of his friend and boss. Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law.

  Anthony Romero

  Law, Speaks Out, People

  "ACLU blasts Justice Dept. leaks probe". Anthony Romero's statement in the American Civil Liberties Union letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, www.upi.com. December 30, 2005.

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• To be a good boss, you must be transparent. Theres a correlation between worker happiness and workplace transparency. Leaders and managers who offer transparency will earn the respect and devotion of their team.

  David Niu

  Team, Leader, Workplace

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• In the nurturing family...parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative bosses. They see their job primarily as one of teaching their children how to be truly human in all situations. They readily acknowledge to the child their poor judgment as well as their good judgment; their hurt, anger, or disappointment as well as their joy. The behavior of these parents matches what they say.

  Virginia Satir

  Hurt, Jobs, Children

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• Just the idea that someone is married and they've got a kid, and he reports for work one morning and his boss says, "You're wife is a spy. Shoot her." In the real story, he just went back and did it, which would have been a short film. Therefore, I had to spend some time exploring what you would do.

  Steven Knight

  Morning, Real, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• ...I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them-business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Eye, Two, Feet

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.57, Vintage

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• If you have free universal health care and free education supported by public school taxes, then you have more bargaining power with your bosses, but if everything is privatized, and ordinary Americans have to pay for everything through their wages, then they're at the mercy of their employers. If the workers know they'll be ruined if they lost their jobs, they're not going to be uppity. You want to break their spirit.

  Michael Lind

  Education, Jobs, Health

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• A vacation should be just long enough that your boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

  Jacob Braude

  Vacation, Long, Missing

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• When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well.

  Juliette Lewis

  Vision, Directors, Film

  "Juliette Lewis Talks THE FIRM and Future Projects". Interview wth Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2012.

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• I haven't really had too many bosses. Any bad boss I had probably was because I was a bad employee.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Employee, Havens

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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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