Reggie Fils-Aime Quotes

Power always works from the corner office.

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

Being a president is being a CEO, essentially.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.

The public has to have a head, and if the President takes the heads away, the public will have his.

Conkling -- the power behind the throne, superior to the throne.

Jayalalitha is a performing monkey in the hands of Sasikala.

Being a manager is kneading people.

Obama's just a puppet - he's a puppet in a chair.

That's the fun part of being CEO. You can actually say, 'Hey, this is what we should be spending our time on,' and people get it.

Putin knows how to run the KGB playbook. I mean, he knows how to work people.

The great power in America is the corporations - we're a corporate country. We're run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

There are advantages to being the chairman. One of my favorite perks was picking out an issue and doing what I called a "deep dive." It's spotting a challenge where you think you can make a difference - one that looks like it would be fun - and then throwing the weight of your position behind it. Some might justifiably call it "meddling." I've often done this just about everywhere in the company.

America is run by the rich and powerful in their own interest. To an extent that I think is hard to exaggerate, the intellectuals - academics, journalists and so on - are bought off. And that's a big change that happened in the United States in the last 30 or 40 years.

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

Jesse ain't running nothin' but his mouth.

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.