Air Quote by Mary Kay Ash

“The challenge of running a business is that you have to assemble subordinates and literally treat them like they are below you. Because in…

— Anje Kruger

In business terms, if you take over a company and oust its CEO or fire a divisional chief, you run the place. But in…

— Michael Wolff

My subordinates followed my orders.

— Jorge Rafael Videla

My father is the CEO, and there's no question he is my boss. But we work very much in tandem.

— Linda Johnson Rice

It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior…

— Dee Hock

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his…

— Sam Walton

Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

— Abraham Lincoln

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

— Laurence J. Peter

I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above…

— Peter Drucker

“The boards as top leadership team can no longer avoid, delegate, or ignore the need for technical competency among their ranks.”

— Pearl Zhu

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their…

— David Riesman