"I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders."

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Source : "American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation". Book by Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor, 2001.

Richard J. Daley

#Boss Quotes #Leader Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.”
“By the way, I love you.â€ â€œThatâ€™s why we're here.”
“In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.”
“Even in a hierarchy people can be equal as thinkers.”

Source : Nancy Kline (2009). “More Time to Think: A Way of Being in the World”, p.45, Fisher King Publishing
“Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.”
“It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.”
“Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.”
“My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.”

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