Wang Jianlin Quotes

As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

We all learn submission because we all have 'bosses', whether we're presidents of companies or not. The easiest place to learn it is in family.

There is … no minister who would not think it safer to act by orders than from his own discretion.

Some people need a command-and-control environment.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.

Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.

It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

He was in charge of everything and I was to be wherever he wasn’t.

No matter how lofty you are in your department, the responsibility for what your lowliest assistant is doing is yours.

I have neither eye to see, nor tongue to speak here, but as the House is pleased to direct me.

In the military you do not get points for creativity. You get points for obedience.

The White House Chief of Staff must always remember that he is staff and not chief.

Bosses are the ones calling the shots, as they should in any organization. And if you think you're above your boss, that's not reality.

The coach is the boss at the end of the day. I do whatever he tells me and don't ask questions.

Everywhere in life people are in authority to make decisions and you have to abide by them, whether right or wrong.

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

My duty is to obey orders.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders.