You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.
If you're wearing a Bluetooth thing and you've got that thing on your belt, you are working for somebody else. You are not the guy in charge. That's a really good social status indicator.
There's always been a man telling me what to do.
The minority must bow to the majority.
The first duty of a leader is optimism. How does your subordinate feel after meeting with you? Does he feel uplifted? If not, you are not a leader.
A delegate cannot have a delegate. Vicarius non habet vicarium.
I'd always thought that, in all the great sci-fi constructs, there's always the guy who seems like he's the commander, but then you reveal that there's an even bigger puppet master up above and beyond him.
As a sub, you just want to help your team in whatever way you can.
Dad's the master, I'm the student.
I'm not a leading guy.
Molly blinked, then looked at Thomas and said, "Wait a minute.... We're his flunkies." "You, may be," Thomas said, sneering. "I'm his thug. I'm way higher than a flunky." "You are high if you think I'm taking any orders from you," Molly said tartly.
The White House Chief of Staff must always remember that he is staff and not chief.
The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.
With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.
I'm a team player. I've, you know, played team sports my whole life, at least as a kid. And I believe that you have to subordinate yourself to the greater good of the team.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
There's no way I'm going to be second fiddle.
Renzi is a pawn. Renzi is a dumb slave at the disposal of nameless people who want to control all of our lives from Brussels.
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it.
Being the backup, as they call me, I have no pressure at all.
When you're an assistant, you're executing the wishes of your boss.
'Concierge' comes from the Latin for 'slave.'
Being the lowest one on the totem pole is sometimes the fun part to play.
I don't mind being called a puppet. But I'm the puppet of the people.
