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  • ...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy to get me in, my grandparents told her (my mother); there was a long waiting list, and I was considered only because of the intervention of Gramps' boss, who was an alumnus (my first experience with affirmative action, it seems, had little to do with race).

    Mother   School   Islands  
  • More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

    Men   Hands   Boss  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • For in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, "hold office"; every one of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the final analysis, the kind of government we get depends upon how we fulfill those responsibilities. We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.

    Selected Quotations from John F. Kennedy's Book "Profiles in Courage", www.jfklibrary.org. 1957.
  • When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance.

    Money   Blessing   People  
    "A child of the century".
  • I also stole a small yellow doughnut from the box of Duncan's doughnuts in the rec room and fed it to the attack poodle in my office. He made a great production of it. First, he growled at the doughnut, just to show it who was boss. Then he nudged it with his nose. Then he licked it, until finally he snagged it into his mouth and chomped it with great pleasure, dropping crumbs all over the carpet.

    Yellow   Office   Boss  
    Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.89, Penguin
  • I saved letters from my boss. There are things in there that are directly transcribed. I was so glad I did that. Sometimes when I was writing the book I wondered if some little writer hobbit part of my brain was back there puppeteering that action. But it really never, on any conscious level, occurred to me that I would write about it. I will say, I thought probably some day there would be an ancillary character in some novel - not in the one I was currently writing - that would be a dominatrix or something.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • I know what is going on," said Sir. "I am the Boss! Of course I know!

    Boss   Said   Courses  
  • My happiness isn't connected to my husband's or my boss's or my children's behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being.

    Children   Husband   Boss  
  • 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.

    Jobs   Rose   Boss  
    "Jack and Suzy Welch: Why Strong Leadership Is about Truth and Trust". Knowledge@Wharton Interview, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. May 8, 2015.
  • One moment it was there, another moment it is gone. One moment we are here, and another moment we have gone. And for this simple moment, how much fuss we make! How much violence, ambition, struggle, conflict, anger, hatred, just for this small moment! Just waiting for the train in a waiting room on a station, and creating so much fuss: fighting, hurting each other, trying to possess, trying to boss, trying to dominate - all that politics. And then the train comes and you are gone forever.

  • In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal.

    Self   Order   Two  
  • There are times when you have sharp elbows, and people are trying to muscle you out of certain meetings - because then people could leak to the press that you had a role in certain decisions. I, at twenty-six, was very impatient and didn't know how to keep my powder dry. I was running a team of seventy-five people when I had never been a boss. I was the worst boss ever.

    Running   Team   People  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

    Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”
  • Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the boss.

    Boss   Want  
  • Just know that it’s fear that keeps most people working at a job. The fear of not paying their bills. The fear of being fired. The fear of not having enough money. the fear of starting over. That’s the price of studying to learn a profession or trade, and then working for money. Most people become a slave to money… and then get angry at their boss.

    Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.49, Robert Kiyosaki
  • I am not sure any of the material in Leadership BS would be helpful for small companies and certainly not their owners. Of course, even owners have bosses and need to worry about keeping their jobs - so Power might be more appropriate.

    Jobs   Worry   Boss  
    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • People who try to boss themselves always want (however kindly) to boss other people. They always think they know best and are so stern and resolute about it they are not very open to new and better ideas.

    Thinking   Ideas   People  
    Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.32, Simon and Schuster
  • Your husband is the boss - and don't forget it.

    Husband   Boss   Forget  
  • 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.

    "We Need An Emergency Boss" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2010.
  • You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. There is no 'bosses.'

    Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. June 29, 2010.
  • I'm very determined, honest, open and definitely very energetic. I expect a lot as a boss and I'm very demanding, but I ask that of myself too.

  • So if the meaning of the Trump brand is being the ultimate boss who has the power because he's so rich, the way you undermine that brand is by making him look like a puppet, and by showing that while he's playing gold and admiring his properties, it's actually other people making the key decisions and he doesn't really know what's going on.

    People   Decision   Boss  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the bosses.

  • I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.

    Passion   Boss   Special  
    "Elena Ferrante: 'Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing'". Interview with Deborah Orr, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2016.
  • Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There comes a time in every man's life when he has to stop being sensible--a time to stand up and be counted--strike a blow for liberty--smite the wicked.' Ummm...' So quit yawning, the time has come.' She glanced down. 'Maybe I had better get dressed.

    Men   Blow   Years  
    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.89, Penguin
  • 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.

    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.
  • First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.

    Fog   Decision   Boss  
    Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.
  • I thought what if death is more like thinking, well, war is like the boss at your shoulder, constantly wanting more, wanting more, wanting more, and then that gave me the idea that Death is weary, he's fatigued, and he's haunted by what he sees humans do to each other because he's on hand for all of our great miseries.

    War   Thinking   Hands  
    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

    "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.
  • If a man approaches another man in a disrespectful way, especially if they're at a high level in the streets, they're not going to listen to each other. You could be the boss of all bosses, but what gets to you - for real, under your skin, if you got a lady - is going to be your lady!

    Real   Men   Boss  
    "Q&A: 'Snoop' from 'The Wire' makes the jump to 'Chi-Raq'". newsok.com. November 17, 2015.
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