Aeschylus Quotes

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

Xavier McDaniel made me respect him. I thought I could do anything I wanted to. He grabbed me one time and almost choked me out. He said, 'You're going to do this. You're going to go get coffee. You're going to go get doughnuts.' It's a game of respect.

You can't be loved for long if you're not feared.

Through obedience learn to command.

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

Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

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.

I have built my organization upon fear.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

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

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.

Some coaches are on power trips. I've never needed somebody to tell me I'm not working hard enough.

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.

They must be governed by and be subordinate to you.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command …

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.

The typical German coach wants things done one way - his way.

Everywhere in life, everywhere in the world, there has to be bosses.