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Quotes About Authority

Sneak out." He shrugged, as if that should have been a no-brainer. But that was easy for him to say. He was dead. What else could they do to him, take away his birthday?
~ Rachel Vincent
I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops and robbers business.
~ Broderick Crawford
Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
~ J. P. Morgan
The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.
~ Humphrey Bogart
Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision
~ Toyotomi Hideyoshi
What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.
~ Jan Smuts
If Triple H asked you to jump off a bridge, would you? Because I think that's good for business.
~ CM Punk
The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Do not let anyone else run your business
~ Benjamin Graham
Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.
~ Gene Sharp
When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws.
~ Derek Sivers
If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you."
~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Every form of power comes down to language. In law, there's all kinds of words you don't know if you're not a lawyer and that gives them power. In business, it's the same thing.
~ Tony Robbins
Insults are the business of the court.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
~ Ozzie Smith
If someone was to tally the number of human hours wasted in business by people trying to accomplish objectives without being given the authority to do so, we would all be appalled.
~ Laurie Beth Jones
I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
~ Joseph Heller
Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.
~ Elizabeth Arden
Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The US presidency will continue to represent the major power groups of the United States - big business and the military - regardless of who the talking head is.
~ Julian Assange
No one on earth is allowed to question my business decisions.
~ Unknown
I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
~ Alan Bennett
I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.
~ Dolly Parton
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
~ Saint Augustine