Emilio Ambasz Quotes

Power always works from the corner office.

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.

Vice presidents are supposed to be eternally loyal, which is why it is so difficult for some to figure out how to succeed their bosses.

I don't like having managers.

You want to be respected by your bosses and peers.

Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

I'm just as famous as my mentor... but that's still the boss don't get sent for

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.

Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.

You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.

If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.

It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.

If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.

Power is the flower of organization.

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

How could there be any difference between The Messenger and me? I am his slave, his servant, his son. He is the leader, the only spokesman for the Black Muslims.

Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.

We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master.

The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind.

A servant cannot be greater than his master.

You were wrong. She really is the new general in town." I smiled back, hoping he wasn't aware of my body's reaction to us standing so close. "Maybe. But, it's okay. You can still be colonel." He arched an eyebrow. "Oh? Did you demote yourself? Colonel's right below general. What's that make you?" I reached into my pocket and triumphantly flashed the CR-V keys I'd swiped when we'd come back inside. "The driver," I said.