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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
Boss

"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."

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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Businesswoman, Entrepreneur
Boss

"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."

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Charles Edison Inventor, Businessman
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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."

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Activist, Author
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"When I was with the Labor Party, I'd get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote, or proposed to write about, wasn't conducive to their policies or to electoral success."

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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
Boss

"A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates."

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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives."

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Johnny Carson Television Host
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"I hated my last boss. He asked, Why are you two hours late? I said, I fell downstairs. He said, That doesn't take two hours."

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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
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"Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my job to what's best for Death Row"

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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
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"In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility."

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Bruce Springsteen Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it."

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Teresa Wright Actress
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"The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children."

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