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“I now have anti-bodies to assholes after working for so many.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading

“My sincerest gratitude to every ass hole, horrible boss, and worthless piece of shit I've ever met for giving me new and endless material to work with and a way to earn a living exposing you.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading

“You can be the most productive and most effective, but politics show up as ego, jealousy and sabotage from bosses who can’t perform.”
― Richie Norton

“Threats from the street may be potentially lethal, but the threat from the "enemy within" is a far worse hazard to a law officers health and wellbeing.”
― Steve Neal

“Bad boss? Fire him/her. When you're interviewing for a job, You're job is to interview them. You are an equal.”
― Richie Norton

“I’ve seen too many leaders misunderstand leadership. They divide, instead of unite. They avoid their role in collective purpose.”
― Richie Norton

“People who make big promises can also make big lies. Trust first, but exercise smart trust. You can be the most productive and most effective, but politics show up as ego and jealousy for bosses who can’t perform. If your job or task is codependent, you can be sabotaged. Always seek interdependence and people who are authentic at the core, not blue in the face.”
― Richie Norton

“Not all bosses are bad. But all bad bosses are losses.”
― Richie Norton

“Pretty normal for a high-achiever to be shut out by superiors for various self-serving reasons. Keep achieving anyways.”
― Richie Norton

“Some jobs are not hard to get.
It is just that you do not have enough money or guts to pay for it, in cash or in kind.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“A boss with just money is like a sinking person
drowning in the sea whoever comes to him gets his career dragged.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“Now when I think my boss is a shithead, I can actually do something about it. I love being my own boss!”
― Erika M. Weinert, Cursing with Style: A Dicktionary of Expletives

“You should have a life plan. But your life plan shouldn’t be thrown off by having a really bad boss who doesn’t like you. If your plan is so narrow that you can’t survive a bad boss then you are not doing the planning right.”
― Adam Bryant, The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership

“And then came Jane Rosenthal (De Niro's handpicked CEO to oversee his production company). She had adored Rocky and Bullwinkle as a girl, and her husband, real estate investor Craig Hatkoff, had made a Valentine’s Day present to her of the collected series on DVD. She, like others before her, thought there was a potential film in Ward’s iconic characters and surreal sensibility, and in 1998 she negotiated a deal with Universal Pictures to acquire the rights and produce a $75 million film for the summer moviegoing season.��

...Fearless Leader, a role for which Rosenthal thought De Niro was perfect. When she asked him, she recalled, ��he really laughed at me.… He didn’t grow up watching it. It wasn’t his thing.�� But she persisted. ��I was always joking with him about it. Then I finally said, ‘Okay, you’ve got to get serious here. It’s a three-week role. Do you want it or not?’ �� Amazingly—perhaps because he knew the film was, as he called it, ��Jane’s baby”—he did.

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― Shawn Levy, De Niro: A Life

“Eisner gets a pen and a piece of paper. ��Disney is a French name, not Irish,�� he reminds me. ��Now look at this.�� He writes ��D’Isner,�� “Deez-nay,�� as the French would pronounce it, ��is Eisner without the D.”
― James B. Stewart, Disney War

“Among those watching the Larry King interview was Diane Disney Miller and her husband, Ron. In response to a caller asking whether Walt Disney had really been frozen, Eisner said that no, Walt had been buried in an unmarked grave in a secret location. ��His wishes were that it was unmarked, and not available to anybody to ever find out,�� he said. ��But I went up there and talked my way into them showing me where he’s buried.��

Why would the grave be unmarked? King asked.

Walt ��wanted his privacy forever,�� Eisner replied. ��It’s a beautiful little spot and nobody could ever find it, and I’m very proud that I talked myself into it.��

Diane didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. How could Eisner say this on national television? He knew perfectly well that Walt was not buried in an unmarked grave. Diane herself had told him that Walt had been cremated, after they had dinner all those years ago.”
― James B. Stewart, Disney War

“The Sixth Sense was ultimately nominated for six Academy Awards. Completed at a cost of $35 million, it earned just under $300 million in the United States alone, the most successful live-action film in Disney’s history.

David Vogel, Disney’s President of Production (recently dismissed by Michael Eisner after purchasing The Sixth Sense without permission) had been right when he told Eisner that he’d left Disney with one of its biggest pictures. Vogel hadn’t found another job and had pretty much stopped looking. He had decided he no longer wanted to rely on the Machiavellian instincts he found necessary to continue as a movie executive. A few studio people called to congratulate him on the film’s enormous success, but he heard nothing from any of the top Disney executives, including Eisner, Roth, and Schneider. Of course, Vogel was one of the few people who knew that Disney had sold off both the foreign and domestic profits to Spyglass, and would earn only a 12.5 percent distribution fee. He wondered what Eisner thought now.”
― James B. Stewart, Disney War

“The Executive Leadership Assessment (results) quickly devolved into arguments about the ways in which Disney management did or did not function as a team, which pretty much proved the consultant’s point: that Disney’s top-tier executives, under Michael Eisner’s governance, does not make a good team; They don’t qualify as "a team," much less a group. Later, Eisner dismissed the whole experiment as a waste of time. Away from Eisner, several of the participants later conceded the issue. ��What Michael likes is to put six pit bulls together and see which five die,�� one said.”
― James B. Stewart, Disney War

“...clearly Michael Eisner’s most glaring defect, the one quality more than any other that has caused him to leave behind a trail of deeply embittered former colleagues: his dishonesty. Considering the importance Eisner places on honesty in others—dating at least to the childhood incident in which he believes his mother lied about his bedtime—it is extraordinary that Eisner himself has been so reckless with the truth, in ways both large and small, to a degree that suggests he is at times incapable of distinguishing one from the other. Far more than just a personality quirk, Eisner’s tendency to distort, embellish, or forget the truth had direct and costly business consequences for Disney. More than any other single factor, what Steve Jobs and the Weinstein brothers considered Eisner’s dishonesty accounts for the failure of the important Pixar and Miramax relationships. Katzenberg was so angry and bitter—and willing to sue—because he believed he was lied to and felt betrayed.”
― James B. Stewart, Disney War

“I hate it. I hate Michael Eisner,�� Frank Wells said. ��I can’t go in there anymore and take the shit.”
― James B. Stewart, Disney War