Sinead O'Connor Quotes

Was Effenberg a leader because he projected presence or because he had a presence? There is a difference.

Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? You ain't so big, you're just tall.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.

You'll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce his stature if he was too much like us. We need to think of our leaders as being above us, even though they must still relate to us.

By God, he looked like a President.

I tell people what to do, and so what? I am more qualified than the other board members, so my advice means more.

His essence was force ... the relish of power, and command.

For me, power was never an attraction.

Power in itself has never attracted me, nor has position been my goal.

I say to my kids all the time - and this is absolutely true - I always say, 'Who's the boss?' and they go, 'You are.'

It's the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage. But that's true of any profession and hierarchy with a boss. You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job, and then you have the ones that just hover around.

Sometimes I am the 'philosophical professor, or I can do the voice like thunder if necessary... or if I want to keep the lads on their toes I might sit back and give them a thousand-yard stare.

For the longest time, I just felt like I had to be really, really harsh to be taken seriously as a CEO.

If you have to remind people you're the boss, I don't think you're going to be a very effective leader.

Any man that tells me what to do is sexy!

When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you're working.

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

'Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say'

Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong and positive people under him.

A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority.

Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part of those who approach it.

My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils.