Marlo Thomas Quotes

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.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

I've never wanted to be the boss.

I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

I am a director. I'm the one who can order men around.

Through obedience learn to command.

We were not born to sue, but to command.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

Be the chief but never the lord.

Leadership is influence.

Gotta watch out for directors.

Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

I like power and I like to use it.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.