Boss Quotes - Page 32

• Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

  Robert Jarvik

  Inspirational, Leadership, Fear

  "At theNAT, building a family". Interview with Lisa Deaderick, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 4, 2016.

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• No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already ... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Talking

  "Brown University student uncovers lost Malcolm X speech". www.nj.com. February 6, 2012.

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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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• 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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• A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

  Aldous Huxley

  Powerful, Army, Brave New World

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.

  Franz Kafka

  Brain, Tools, Metamorphosis

  Franz Kafka (2014). “Metamorphosis: The original story by Franz Kafka as well as important analysis”, p.3, BoD – Books on Demand

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• There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.

  Klaus Balkenhol

  Motivational, Leadership, Differences

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• Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jobs, Work, Ambition

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• If you are the boss it's wise to remember that there are lots of things you don't know and lots of people who hope you won't find out.

  Michael Josephson

  Wise, People, Remember

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• Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.

  Orrin Woodward

  Decision, Leader, Worst

  Twitter post from Jul 05, 2016

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• The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.

  Abraham Maslow

  Fate, Creating, Agency

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic,
  or the one you love, or your neighbors, or your boss,
  then you must learn to control you...
  the one whose response to the difficulties of life REALLY counts.

  Jim Rohn

  Weather, Neighbor, One You Love

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 11, 2011

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• If you're cooking for someone important - whether it's your boss or a date - never try a new recipe and a new ingredient at the same time.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Cooking, Important, Trying

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• So every time you think about your work-life balance issue, remember what your boss is thinking about - and that's winning. Your needs may get heard - and even successfully resolved - but not if the boss's needs aren't met as well.

  Jack Welch

  Winning, Thinking, Issues

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• Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Jobs, Demand

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• My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Strong, Husband, Home

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• I'm not taking maternity leave from 'Big Brother.' I e-mailed my boss over there this weekend and I said, 'Don't worry. I can still do the show!

  Julie Chen

  Brother, Weekend, Worry

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• I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.

  Charlie Day

  New York, Lines, Tables

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• Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

  Charles Edison

  Government, Democratic Ideals, Democracy

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• A long time ago, I learned not to go up to the boss and ask what's happening to my character. I haven't done that for 20 years, since I was on 'Days of Our Lives.

  Michael Easton

  Character, Years, Long

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• You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.

  Jeannette Walls

  Men, Careers, Fortune

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• I was very lucky with 'Soap' and 'Who's the Boss,' which was great fun, and then went on 'Coach' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond.' I've been truly blessed, and the work has all been fun and a joy.

  Katherine Helmond

  Fun, Blessed, Joy

  "DIVA TALK: Chats with Helmond and Rose, Oz's Block Gets Wicked and Q Folk Go Empty-Handed". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 6, 2004.

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• In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn't have a command hierarchy. It doesn't have a boss. So, all the decisions are somehow made collectively. The control of the system is in the hands of everyone who is a part of it.

  Steven Johnson

  Hands, Decision, Peers

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• When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Mean, Assessment, Years

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• I think everyone starts in the mailroom at some point! It's a right of passage. Your boss has to throw something at you and order you around for at least two years.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Thinking, Order, Years

  "Michael B. Jordan, ‘Fruitvale’ Star, Reveals His Early Tap Dancing Roots". Interview with Sasha Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

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