Top 100 Boss's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.

Mary Cheney

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Harry S. Truman

#13. 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

#14. Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss.

Deborah Wiles

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

George E. M. Kelly

#18. 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

#19. A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!

Arno Hintjens

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. You shut the door, you tell the boss exactly what you think. But when the door opens, the job of the vice president is to stand right next to the president and implement the policy that he's decided. And I'm prepared to do that.

Mike Pence

#28. I'm not the kind of girl who ends up with the good guy. I'm the crime boss's daughter.

Avery Flynn

#29. I felt sad for my "actual boss" who was too hard-pressed under his mom's weight.

Ankita Kapoor

#30. If the disk crashes - taking all of your source code with it - and you don't have a backup, it's your fault. Telling your boss "the cat ate my source code" just won't cut it.

Anonymous

#31. Hey little demon, where's boss man? (Tabitha)
He off attending to Lord Queen Pain-In-My-Butt. (Simi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#32. So every time you think about your work-life balance issue, remember what your boss is thinking about - and that's winning. Your needs may get heard - and even successfully resolved - but not if the boss's needs aren't met as well.

Jack Welch

#33. Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, but write it in such a way that American's youth can identify and slurp along with the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-11!

Henry Rollins

#34. Grace under pressure isn't just about bullfighters and men at war. It's about getting up every day to face a job or a white boss you don't like but have to face to feed your children so they'll grow up to be a better generation.

Ernest Gaines

#35. Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed.

Robert Breault

#36. A long time ago, I learned not to go up to the boss and ask what's happening to my character. I haven't done that for 20 years, since I was on 'Days of Our Lives.'

Michael Easton

#37. I pledged to work for righteousness. God's given me inspiration. God's the boss, he tell me what to do.

Bob Marley

#38. When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way.

Edward Whitacre Jr.

#39. Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.

Malcolm Forbes

#40. One of the first things that you learn as a stand-up is, you're the boss. It's your stage, and don't screw with me because I'll make you look bad, which I had to do, because you wind up with drunks and loud people.

Bob Newhart

#41. With his final blow delivered, he pulls me up toward him, first by my hips, and then by my hair. Groping my breasts and kissing me, he is full of congratulations.
'Well done, Megan, you took your punishment well. Now it's time for your reward.

Felicity Brandon

#42. You can give me detention. Oh, wait, that's right ... you aren't the boss of me. So I guess you can just bite me. -Dean

Jeff Mariotte

#43. If people think I'm just the boss's daughter, they're deceived.

Ivanka Trump

#44. And I can't promise anything, you understand, but there's always a chance he'll want to torture your boss anyway. Just recreationally, I mean."
"Wow, that would be terrific," I said.

Robert Kroese

#45. It's very hard to be perceived as a boss, and behaving like a boss or wanting to be treated like one.

Sinead O'Connor

#46. I watch a lot of TV - 'Perfect Strangers,' 'Family Matters,' 'Who's the Boss?' - then I go over my notes in the script, lock it into my head and go to bed.

Lea Salonga

#47. Ask yourself, if they getting married, would you be upset if you weren't invited? If the answer is no, then that's an easy name to cross off your list.

Anna Bell

#48. My vampire boss, who would like to maybe be my boyfriend, just dropped in to tell me he was running away because Morganville's too dangerous.

Rachel Caine

#49. Variety is definitely the spice of life but I love writing office romances (I was a secretary before I became a writer), because it's every girl's dream to meet that gorgeous hunky boss who sweeps her off her feet and takes her out of her dull routine.

Helen Brooks

#50. If newsmen do not tell the truth as they see it because it might make waves, or if their bosses decide something should or should not be broadcast because of Washington or Main Street consequences, we have dishonored ourselves and we have lost the First Amendment by default.

Richard S. Salant

#51. I haven't any troubles, I have some money like a gentleman of leisure, no boss, no wife, no children; I exist, that's all. And that particular trouble is so vague, so metaphysical, that I am ashamed of it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#52. When people say to me: would you rather be thought of as a funny man or a great boss? My answer's always the same, to me, they're not mutually exclusive.

David

#53. Throughout Ronnie's presidency, there was an ongoing public discussion as to how much influence the first lady should have on the president. It's hardly a new problem. As long as mankind has lived in groups, there's always been a question of how to handle the boss's wife.

Nancy Reagan

#54. I told my boss that I had a book inside of me, and that I needed to get it out even if I had to squeeze it through my vagina. Because that's exactly what the world needs. A book squeezed from my vagina.

Jenny Lawson

#55. Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

Jeremy Paxman

#56. It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.

Bryce Courtenay

#57. Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.

Ina May Gaskin

#58. I would say that the energy on set is always the energy of the director because he's the boss.

Stephanie Sigman

#59. If you're cooking for someone important - whether it's your boss or a date - never try a new recipe and a new ingredient at the same time.

Marcus Samuelsson

#60. For that was mom's trump card: she was the mother, and so possessed a mysterious and unquestioned authority. Dad was the boss, but Mom was the power.

Joyce Carol Oates

#61. I'm going to continue to make short films. I love making shorts. I don't have a boss. There's no boss telling me what I can and can't do. I find that it's incredibly creative and challenging to just keep doing that.

Todd Strauss-Schulson

#62. My boss seems to think that my hair is gonna fall off & go into the ice cream. This hair ain't movin' my dude. 150mph on the highway on a street bike it doesn't move! What makes you think it's gonna move in a gelato shop?

Pauly D

#63. Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication.

Lyle Lovett

#64. In my home, who is my boss? If you ask my wife she'll say certainly not her. She claims that she can't make me do anything and so she's not my boss. I am. I'm pretty sure, maybe.

Morgan Freeman

#65. The boss says that games in hand are no good unless you turn them into points. What he's getting at is that games in hand aren't much good unless you turn them into points.

David Platt

#66. You need some time in a quiet place, boss. Unkink your brain's do. Mellow your vibe." "Thank you, Doctor Fraud,

Jim Butcher

#67. Beyonce is this massive star, but she's incredibly humble. But it's weird because even though I love her, she's my boss's wife.

Rita Ora

#68. If we're honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a bad husband ... you find that he tends to do more good than harm. He might be a bad boss but at least he's employing someone while he is in fact a boss.

Tony Abbott

#69. I saw my whole life flash before my eyes, boss. It was horrific. I haven't done anything to regret yet and it's been way too brief. I at least want a license before I check out, you know?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#70. It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

Kanye West

#71. A person's right to a job is as specious as his boss' right to success in business. There is no right to a minimum wage, just as there is no right to success in self-employment.

Rex Curry

#72. I think it's hard, when you're someone who likes to please people, as I am, to be a boss. I had to learn how to rein myself in and not terrify people.

Ruth Reichl

#73. The only thing stopping you is fear, and the only thing that will get you past it is courage. What you do with your life isn't up to your parents, your boss, or your spouse. It's up to you and you alone.

Steve Pavlina

#74. I have to go. Boss has
this weird idea that I should actually work while he's paying
me.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#75. If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.

Scott Dikkers

#76. During my seven-year contract with RKO, there were seven different studio presidents, from David O. Selznick to Charles W. Koerner. You literally had to check the name on the door so as not to call the new boss by the former boss's name.

Ginger Rogers

#77. People think if you're a movie star, you're the boss. But first of all, I'm not a movie star, I'm in a very different place. I'm not looking to do what I want - I am looking for what we can find. It's a creative process.

Rutger Hauer

#78. Getting involved with someone was complicated enough, but with the boss's daughter? Probably not a good idea.

Wendy Ely

#79. I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

Kirk Douglas

#80. If you ever catch a great boss, it's just such a rare thing, and it's amazing.

James L. Brooks

#81. A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.

Peter Drucker

#82. Man has obeyed commands of the Mother, the Father, the Guru; but he has not obeyed the commands of 'God' (Bhagwan). Had he obeyed 'God's' commands, his work (for liberation) would have been accomplished. Alas! He will follow his boss's commands and even his wife's commands!

Dada Bhagwan

#83. I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play.

Judith Light

#84. Vampires were fairy tales and magic. They were the wolf in the forest that ran ahead to grandmother's house, the video game big boss who could be hunted without guilt, the monster that tempted you into its bed, the powerful eternal beast one might become. The beautiful dead, la belle mort.

Holly Black

#85. Alexander Dow, his boss at Edison, who thought him immensely talented, tried to dissuade him. "Electricity, yes," Dow told Ford. "That's the coming thing. But gas - no.

David Halberstam

#86. Dance removes you from this construct of the world that you have, and it's a conversation that you're having with people. That's how dance grew, as an art form.

Stephen Boss

#87. I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun ... I continue to be an artist ... for the freedom that an art career can bring. I don't need an alarm clock and I am my own boss.

Mark Kostabi

#88. Jerry Krause must have pictures of his boss's wife having sex with a monkey.

Charles Barkley

#89. Far as I can see, we mostly exist as *ideas* in each other's heads. The way *you* see me. The way my *boss* sees me. The way the *waitress* at Lindy's sees me.

Mike Carey

#90. There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?"
"Evil's afoot."
"Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.

Jim Butcher

#91. I'd just thank the people out there who have been with my up-and-down, weird-road, strange career and supported me and stuck with me all these years. I mean, they're my boss. That's what keeps me working.

Johnny Depp

#92. Well maybe we need to Cesar Millan their asses and show them who's boss. Tsst, tsst!

Kresley Cole

#93. You have to get hurt . That is how you learn . The strongest people out there , the ones who laugh the hardest , those are the people who have fought the toughest battles . But they've decided longback , they're not going to let anything down . They are showing the world who's the boss here

Anonymous

#94. Multitracking keeps egos in check. If your boss has three pet projects in play, chances are she'll be open to unvarnished feedback about them, but if there's only one pet project, it will be harder for her to hear the truth. Her ego will be perfectly conflated with the project.

Chip Heath

#95. I like watching a man boss everybody around. It's so sexy

Robin Tunney

#96. I was very lucky with 'Soap' and 'Who's the Boss,' which was great fun, and then went on 'Coach' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond.' I've been truly blessed, and the work has all been fun and a joy.

Katherine Helmond

#97. The worst thing for worker's is their bosses business going out of business.

Sadiq Khan

#98. I never had a boss in my whole life. I've totally destroyed anybody's ability to tell me what to do.

David H. Murdock

#99. Who's the boss?

TONY DANZA, YOU PRICK!

Patrick Wensink

#100. He didn't exactly have the "programmer" look to him, if you know what I mean. He'd be the programmer's boss. The one they hated. The one who made them work on holidays.

John Scalzi

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