Top 100 Best Big Boss Quotes
#1. Any time you feel the desire to eat a pint of Cherry Garcia ice cream, commit adultery,
avoid confessing your sins, or hate your boss, your concupiscible passions are stirring.
Taylor R. Marshall
#2. People's mind becomes their boss and torments them. So what would become of the one who believes he can be the boss [control] of the mind of others?
Dada Bhagwan
#3. Why does anyone have a lot of rules? So they can boss people around, I guess.
Lemony Snicket
#4. Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss.
Deborah Wiles
#5. I'm my own boss, my own editor, my own shooter, my own writer, everything. This is all stuff I learned through trial and error ... failing at a lot of things has taught me how to succeed at them eventually ... you roll with the punches.
Lilly Singh
#6. 'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'
Tom Colicchio
#7. Of course, it took a while to learn all this. Anytime I messed up, my boss would let me know. Right away he'd cuss me out, tell me I was a worthless piece of shit. But I never got pissed at David. In my mind, I thought, I'm better than that and I'll show you. As it happens, that's exactly the
Chris Kyle
#8. I wanted to be my own boss. I was fascinated by airlines and how I could change travel for the average person. Then I wanted to diversify.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
#9. I would never go into the 'Bigg Boss' house even in a hypothetical situation. I have been to jail, so if I were to be confined in that house, I'd get rattled.
Sanjay Dutt
#10. On an otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American Dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window.
Larry Correia
#11. Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.
Douglas McGregor
#12. If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.
John M. Gottman
#13. A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman
#14. They're like Generation X on steroids. They walk in with high expectations for themselves, their employer, their boss. If you thought you saw a clash when Generation X came into the workplace - that was the fake punch. The haymaker is coming now.
Paul Greenberg
#15. This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'
Jane Pauley
#16. In hierarchal organizations, the boss is a supreme being. In tribal organizations, the boss is just another worker.
Daniel Quinn
#17. A professional who didn't miss his target even in his death. If your boss had half your sense of humour, this Pakiland of yours would be a much livelier place.
Mohammed Hanif
#19. I feel like I've always been in love with dance. When I was little kid I would always be the one who would be like, okay let's make up some dance routines.
Stephen Boss
#20. Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#21. Later, you can shoot your boss an e-mail and comment positively on the new strategy or ideas she suggested and say you are eager to implement them. She'll appreciate
Kate White
#22. All heat drained from my face. Holy shit. I hadn't even started my new job and already I was insulting my new boss ... right after sleeping with him. I was worse than Sylvie. "So you're - "
My speech eluded me.
"Jett Mayfield, the stingy SOB who just hired you." He held out his palm.
J.C. Reed
#23. I would like to make it clear here that Avantika was neither a very friendly person nor a friendly boss - she was just a bossy boss.
Sandhya Jane
#24. The one who never rebukes his underhand will have no boss in this world!
Dada Bhagwan
#25. Nanahara: Where are you going, Boss?
Yashiro: To the convenience store. Whenever I buy all the condoms they have in stock and bring it to the cashier, the part-timer there makes a funny face.
Nanahara: ... That's an interesting hobby.
Kou Yoneda
#26. Bosses run things. The rest of us get run. It's the only rank that matters these days. You can dress it up as baronies or boyars or caliphates, but that's just sticking lace and ribbons on the dinosaur and hoping he'll take you to town. Is you a boss or isn't you? That's about the size of it.
Catherynne M Valente
#27. Do any of us actually want to live in a world where your boss can decide that he or she is morally opposed to mental health care? What if your employer was morally opposed to getting x-rays or antibiotics? How about just being forced to disclose your private medical information to your employer?
Richard Carmona
#28. When you look ito the still, deep water,
you can feel it looking back,
trying to come up with the proper punishment.
Fucking water, who made you the boss?
Dean Young
#29. The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.
Buck Owens
#30. Step one, accept she was a damn boss. Step two, hide all the knives, guns, and maybe the pillows, too.
J.J. McAvoy
#31. I think everyone starts in the mailroom at some point! It's a right of passage. Your boss has to throw something at you and order you around for at least two years.
Michael B. Jordan
#32. I don't think I'm supposed to boss other people around just because I'm a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I've seen it happen. I don't call those people out - they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.
Dolly Parton
#33. If I'm the boss / parent, why can't I just tell my subordinates / children what to do?
Douglas Stone
#34. Democracy is, among other things, the ability to say 'no' to the boss. But a man cannot say 'no' to the boss, unless he is sure of being able to eat when the boss's favour has been withdrawn.
Aldous Huxley
#35. It turns out I'm not very good at working with a traditional boss.
Carrie Brownstein
#36. My best and worst boss was the same man - my father. He never - and I mean never - took 'I can't' for an answer. He taught me the value system that, to this day, I have continued to practice.
George Steinbrenner
#37. I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene ... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.
Frank Miller
#38. Do you think I would want to live under a government that you ran or set up? It's all very nice to say you're an anarchist, but you only want anarchy for yourself. For the rest of us, you want to make sure we do what you say, think how you think, and remember you're the boss.
Jane Smiley
#39. I don't want to see any religious people in public office because they're working for another boss.
Frank Zappa
#40. My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.
Jet Li
#41. An ordinary supervisor is a boss. A Super Supervisor is a leader. People avoid bosses, they follow leaders.
Mildred Ramsey
#42. William "Boss" Tweed was in such thorough control in New York that he made money off of the report the committee printed after investigating him.
H.W. Brands
#43. I want to keep my clients happy, and the pressure's on me as the boss to manage my three assistants and make sure that everything is getting done. There's less time for tears and more time for bossing people around.
Brad Goreski
#44. Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.
Bob Schieffer
#45. A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!
Arno Hintjens
#46. We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.
Laurie Simmons
#47. Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!
George E. M. Kelly
#48. I'm showing the boss what I can do. I was bought as a striker and I always believe I am a striker.
Theo Walcott
#49. We're your friends. Your shit became our shit when you drank my tequila and stripped down to your bra.
Boss, Shocking Heaven
D.H. Sidebottom
#50. People can stand around and share movement with each other, whether it's professional or not. That's how it grows. That's what dance does. It's its own language.
Stephen Boss
#51. I always thought that being at Time and tweaking your bosses and exploiting your expense account was just fun. Just joyous.
Joel Stein
#52. You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.
Robert Pozen
#53. My first professional relationship, I danced with the Parsons Dance Company, and David Parsons, my former boss, allowed me to choreograph on the company.
Robert Battle
#54. I always have my own opinion before my boss says his.
Gerry Geek
#55. I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where you're the total boss of everything!
Rosie O'Donnell
#56. There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.'
Joko Beck
#57. I like to think of myself as a coworker with lots of experience rather than a boss, Franklin said.
I like to think of myself as a boss more than a slave but mostly I prefer to not think about it at all because when I think about it, I can't stop.
Vanessa Veselka
#58. I suppose I do get sad, but not for too long. I just look in the mirror and go, 'What a fucking good-looking fuck you are.' And then I brighten up.
Liam Gallagher
#59. It is a strange, repetitive feature of action movies that the infuriating go-by-the-rules boss of the maverick hero is almost invariably Black.)
David Graeber
#60. I would say I'm a boss who's learning, and I hope people have the patience for the fact that I'm learning along the way because that's a tough thing.
Sophia Amoruso
#61. So you're my boss now," I snap.
"Technically, I'm you're boss's boss's boss."
"And technically, it's gross moral turpitude- the fact that i am fucking my boss's boss's boss."
"At the moment, you're arguing with him." Christian scowls.
E.L. James
#62. I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
Valerie June
#63. You're not privileged to call me 'Boss'; you're not tax deductible.
Robert A. Heinlein
#64. In the wealthy countries of the West, discrimination is usually a matter of unequal pay or underfunded sports teams or unwanted touching from a boss. In contrast, in much of the world discrimination is lethal.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#65. Dancing is so physical and so athletic. I think it rings to the boy that is in my soul because you get to run and jump and climb and act as aggressively as you'd like.
Stephen Boss
#66. Every day was filled with surprises. What a change from the network affiliate. Her new boss was an undead automaton from hell, true, but no job was perfect.
Daniel Suarez
#67. Reason number five hundred why it was advisable to have oneself for a boss: Even when you hadn't earned it, you could still treat yourself to a coffee break.
Becky Wade
#68. As dancers, especially for myself, personally, dance constitutes a lot of the conversation that I have. While I'm not a ridiculous wordsmith and I can't clearly verbalize the things that I'm feeling sometimes, I'd say that I can emote how I feel by dancing, 100% of the time, and fearlessly at that.
Stephen Boss
#69. It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.
Mary Cheney
#70. Success on any level begins when you accept responsibility for creating life what you want. You are the only person who can truly make it happen. Not your boss, your business partner, your financial planner, your spouse of life-partner. Just you.
Paul Clitheroe
#71. When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you.
Gene Perret
#72. You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.
Charles Kennedy
#73. The person I enjoy working for more than anyone else is George Lucas. He's the best boss I ever had because he's the most talented boss I ever had.
Steven Spielberg
#74. I take it he was in the closet?"
"He might as well have been in Narnia.
Anna Zabo
#76. The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss touched by her white rays, glows as if lighted with snow.
John Muir
#77. The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda ... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine.
Paul Haggis
#78. If I gun down my boss in the carpark after work then he won't be able to terrorise all his other employees and the greater good will have been served.
Rushworth M Kidder
#79. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.
Anonymous
#80. Get closer," I told Blackjack. "I need to talk to the statue."
Now I'm sure you've lost it, boss, he muttered, but he flew as close as he could, dodging the flying statue.
Rick Riordan
#81. I know that a Christian should be humble, but against the Pope I am going to be proud and say to him: You, Pope, I will not have you for my boss, for I am sure that my doctrine is divine.
Martin Luther
#82. Speak what I want, I don't care what y'all feel. 'Cause I'm my own master, my Pop told me be your own boss. Keep integrity at every cost,
Nas
#83. Most video games, you build up toward the big, bad boss. And it's just a bigger, more powerful version of what you've been fighting all along in the game.
Jim Lee
#84. No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
Groucho Marx
#85. Forgive me, Paul, and I do get a little abrupt from time to time, but titles don't mean a damn thing. Your boss can give you a title. Your boss can't make people listen to you. You have to earn that. It doesn't sound like you get that yet.
Ken Goldstein
#86. Pretty soon, you'll end up being a full-fledged member of my clan. I always knew you would. You'd make an excellent archdemon." His smile dries up. "Too bad I don't care to have you as my boss.
Susan Ee
#87. Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who's boss.
Robert A. Heinlein
#88. The word Styx got her [Mrs. O'Leary, the hellhound] excited. She probably thought I meant sticks. She jumped a few times, chased her tail just to teach it who was boss, and then calmed down enough for me to push Nico onto her back.
Rick Riordan
#89. I'm not holding Hitler up as a role model, the man was a filthy swine, but as I stood in the suspicious glare of my boss I thought, What would Hitler do?
Anonymous
#90. You are the only boss you have. And I want you to be the most demanding boss that you can be. If you really want to make a success of this business, then you must put yourself on a schedule.
Mary Kay Ash
#91. If we protect the 'underhand' [those working under us], then the 'boss' will protect us. If we constantly reprimand the 'underhand', then the boss will constantly reprimand us.
Dada Bhagwan
#92. your boss at work, or your spouse, or a group of college students via YouTube?
Matt Morris
#93. Katie leaned forward conspiratorially. Oh, sweetie, I just said that because Alice is an old bag. You go after Devon. The man is fine. I don't blame you for changing your look for a shot at that. When the pool about you two gets going at Petie's Pub, I'm putting my money on you.
Susan Meier
#94. When your boss listens to you carefully, reaches out to help you, and learns from you, it enhances your dignity and pride. Doing so also helps your boss gain empathy for you, to better understand how it feels to be you and what you need to succeed in your job and life.
Robert I. Sutton
#95. All right, all right," Avery said and rolled Kane onto his back. There was a time they would have gone again, making sure Kane knew who the real boss was, but not so much anymore. Instead, he looked down at his smiling love. "But I believe I burned a few calories, so can I have my snack now, please?
Kindle Alexander
#96. Don't forget - Charlie Chaplin too, my friend." "I'd do an imitation, but I don't know what he sounds like." "Hey, not bad, boss. You can open for me in the Catskills.
Dennis Lehane
#97. People can't listen until they're ready. I sure couldn't. I was, like, deaf to everyone except the thoughts. They were the boss of me.
Teresa Toten
#98. While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.
Leonard Maltin
#99. Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.
Josh Billings
#100. Boss up on your emotions before you become a slave to them.
Dream Hampton
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