Business Boss Quotes

#1. I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them-business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#2. Although the typist has disappeared, her work has not: now you do it yourself ... Since most companies have reduced the managerial ranks, there are fewer and fewer bosses, so you become a manger, his boss, and his secretary all rolled into one.

Corinne Maier

#3. Serving as your own boss, and doing so successfully, consistently, day in and day out, takes an uncommon degree of slight edge integrity, and frankly many business owners just don't have it.

Jeff Olson

#4. A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist of sorts, throwing his/herself into impossible situations and seeking out problems that require heart and guts to solve. Both are fine, but choose.

Seth Godin

#5. If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

Robert Pozen

#6. Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

Ludwig Von Mises

#7. People leave companies for two reasons. One, they don't feel appreciated. And two, they don't get along with their boss.

Adam Bryant

#8. In just about every gangster movie there is a scene where the mob boss says, 'Hey, I'm just a businessman.

William Hageman

#9. I was a first time bride at 44. I had never even lived with anybody. And after running my own business for many years, I knew how to be the boss - but I had no idea how to be a good partner.

Arielle Ford

#10. Connection, he explained, was the essence of pop music, according to his boss, Jimmy Iovine: "Jimmy always says it's all about the connection between the artist and the fans," he says. "This whole business, it's just about that connection.

John Seabrook

#11. Aside God, you have just one boss! That is you. You choose to be a good boss or a bad boss with the business of your life! That is you!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts!

Denise Moreland

#13. My hands clench at my sides. I cannot adequately express how tickled I am to know that I wasted four years pursuing a business degree at Oregon State so I could scan and file papers while my incompetent twenty-four-year-old boss supervises.

Winter Renshaw

#14. It doesn't matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn't cry.

Gerry Geek

#15. When your boss and colleagues care enough to invest in your health, it is good for you and the business.

Tom Rath

#16. On the rare occasions when my family talked about business, the subject was Kansas City's Boss Pendergast and his potential for muscling my dad's small gravel-and-sand operation.

Carol Loomis

#17. My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

Barbara Corcoran

#18. I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

Barbara Corcoran

#19. The business of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable was one of the aphorisms his boss liked to quote.

Sara Gruen

#20. I always have my own opinion before my boss says his.

Gerry Geek

#21. 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

#22. If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.

John M. Gottman

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

George E. M. Kelly

#24. Be your own boss. If you're aiming for true wealth and freedom consider starting your own business.

Timi Nadela

#25. I define leadership as: Emotionally, you own your business. You own it with passion. And you either have or you don't have an economic investment. But when you have all three of those, you are the boss from Day One, and you care every single day more than anyone.

Mickey Drexler

#26. There is only one boss. The customer ...

Sam Walton

#27. A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

Bobby Darin

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man

Jeannette Walls

#31. I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.

Tony Shalhoub

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

Sadiq Khan

#33. The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.

Peter Drucker

#34. Nobody in show business can possibly get away with making fun of their boss.

Jon Cryer

#35. Dear religious, all-powerful entity, please help me be professional. Please help me resist sleeping with my sexual titan of a boss on this business trip. In the name of God or Krishna or Moses, or whoever can freaking help me. Amen.

Annabel Joseph