Top 78 Job Boss Quotes
#1. Ryder - the oldest, Avery continued. He's standing as job boss on this project. Owen's the detail guy, runs the numbers, makes the calls, takes the meetings. Or most of them. Beckett's an architect.
Nora Roberts
#2. I don't have a boss. Well, I have a boss: the public. If the public doesn't buy my books, I would be out of a job.
Peter Mayle
#3. You have a responsibility to teach your boss. You make your boss successful, you become successful. Your boss fails, you fail. If the person is arrogant, regardless of age, go get another job because it doesn't work.
Roberta Chinsky Matuson
#4. I watched you try on suits in Hugo Boss.'For the big job,' you said. And I laughed, because I knew I would never see it. I'd never get up and watch you put it on and walk out of the door. I would never be the one that you came home to.
Kate Chisman
#5. My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.
Nicki Minaj
#6. I refuse to argue with you, Charles! You're my partner! Your job is to iron my shirts and cook my omelettes, not boss me around!
Lemony Snicket
#7. If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do
Seth Godin
#8. A saint or monk can afford to be compassionate to all, but a leader or boss cannot always be kind. He may soon be without a job himself if he is unduly compassionate, and chances are, no one would show him any compassion then.
Awdhesh Singh
#9. 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
#10. For five years he [Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)] served as personal secretary to, yes, Francis Bacon. In fact, I've noted over a course of years that the job of a secretary can be utterly fulfilling just in case one's boss happens to be Francis Bacon.
Daniel N. Robinson
#11. We are trained to be employees, but no one said that we have endure a limited salary that barely keeps pace with inflation.
Carlos Roche
#12. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thing, incessantly: "Get it done, get it done." So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more. Often,
Markus Zusak
#13. With large industries throwing out the factory model as counterproductive, it is long past time for schools to do the same. I wonder how many adults would do well at dealing with different job requirements and a different boss every 47 minutes.
Susan Ohanian
#14. A job should only be a stepping stone to being your own boss
Sunday Adelaja
#15. A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.
Larry Wall
#16. I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job ... and I don't want it!
Bill Cosby
#17. The one surefire way to get me not to hire you is to send me your resume, especially if you've already got a good job. I won't be interested, because in a couple years, you'll be doing the same thing to me that you're doing to your current boss: looking for a better deal.
Bo Schembechler
#18. The Wolverine was fired from his job as a cashier in a newsagents after just six weeks because his boss said, "he talks too much to customers". He can talk to me all day.
Hugh Jackman
#19. Tell your boss he can suck my cock," I say, shoving my chair back to stand up. "If he does a good enough job, maybe I won't blow his fucking brains out for calling me a thief.
J.M. Darhower
#20. Do your job precisely as if you were your own boss, and sooner or later you will be.
Napoleon Hill
#21. AMERICANISM, n. 1) The desire to purge America of all those qualities which make it a more or less tolerable place in which to live; 2) The ability to simultaneously kiss ass, follow your boss's orders, swallow a pay cut, piss in a bottle, cower in fear of job loss, and brag about your freedom.
Ambrose Bierce
#22. The person who works harder when the boss isn't around is headed straight for a better job.
Napoleon Hill
#23. My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.
Henny Youngman
#24. To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.
Juliana Hatfield
#25. Everything I've done feels like I'm just as much a part of it as if I was the producer. It's still the same job: all of us together figuring out the common good for a song. That's the only thing that matters. It's not like, "I'm the boss, and I'm gonna tell you what to play."
Vince Gill
#26. Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What do I or my people do that hampers you?
Peter Drucker
#27. People were like, "Oh maybe we can change your teeth" and I thought that was going a bit far. You have to be really strong in this job and realise that you are your own boss and if someone tells you to do something, you don't have to do it. I really like my teeth.
Lara Stone
#28. It ain't the rain, the snow, the boss, the competition, the spouse, the money, the car, the job, or the kids - it's you! And it always has been.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#29. Women in the workplace - we still have big strides to make. Girlfriend of mine just got a new job. First question the new boss asked her was if she could make a good cup of coffee ... Yeah, she stormed right out of that Starbucks.
Carol Leifer
#30. When you ask people about what they enjoy doing, time spent with the boss is even worse than time spent cleaning the house. So this suggests that there are a lot of leaders out there who are not doing an adequate job.
Tom Rath
#31. To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.
Andrew J. Bernstein
#33. Professional loyalty now flows "horizontally" to and from your network rather than "vertically" to your boss, as Dan Pink has noted.
Reid Hoffman
#34. People found it unusual to leave a job where you're the boss.
David Plotz
#35. Olivia MacKenzie was certain she would have been offered the job if she hadn't punched the boss during the interview.
Julie Garwood
#36. Imagination is pure potentiality for creation. We shouldn't submit it to the hourly wages we subject our time at work.
Carlos Roche
#37. Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my job to what's best for Death Row
Tupac Shakur
#38. A sit-down with your direct boss and establish what she expects you to be focusing on in the first days and weeks of the job. Take
Kate White
#39. Your parents ask you to follow the standard path: School, job, security. Is this really the best way? I don't think so - be your own boss!
Kim Dotcom
#40. I feel incredibly lucky at this moment in my career to get paid to do basically exactly what I always wanted to do. I appreciate that in general. But you know, like any job, a job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with.
Nick Kroll
#41. My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance.
Steven Pinker
#42. If you are working with no vision to be own your own boss, you are no different from people who are unemployed
Sunday Adelaja
#43. No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.
Lois Wyse
#44. Become more valuable to your marketplace at your job. Your job is full of opportunities. Find them! Make more money!
Carlos Roche
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. Do your job well, make sure your boss is fully informed, and don't be afraid to ask for help,
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
#48. 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
#49. My first job, I worked at 'YM' and I had an extremely tough boss who made me cry every single day. But what I took away from that was how I would never be.
Rachel Zoe
#50. 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
#51. If your new boss wanted yo on the island, wouldn't she just have told you to go there?" Thomas asked.
"Seems like," I said. "Taking her orders is pretty much my job now."
Molly snorted softly.
"Maybe I'll grow into it," I said. "You don't know."
Thomas snorted softly.
Jim Butcher
#52. I now have anti-bodies to assholes after working for so many.
Crystal Woods
#53. 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
#54. If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.
John M. Gottman
#55. 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
#56. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.
Anonymous
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. Now, if your boss is a sadist, then you have a big problem. In that case, fire your boss and get a new job.
Donald Trump
#61. Charlie Sheen called his boss on 'Two and a Half Men' a 'Jew ki**' and expected to go back to work. That's crazy. If you could do that and keep your job, then everybody would do it.
Anthony Jeselnik
#63. My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.
Ruth Reichl
#64. There's a difference between a job and a career - if you're the boss you don't stop at six o'clock, you have to worry about everything all the time.
Ricky Gervais
#65. Two things help to keep one's job. First, let the boss think he's having his own way. Second, let him have it.
Sam Ewing
#66. I do often feel that the single greatest thing about my job is that I don't have a boss. I'm like an overweight Han Solo: I take orders from just one person - me.
John Niven
#67. Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation.
John Ridley
#68. I write a little bit about what it's like to be a female boss in my book [ Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?] and the things I've noticed about that, but by and large, it's just a tough job in general.
Mindy Kaling
#69. Smile at people, pop your head into your boss's office regularly and say hello, and come to your first meeting with something really smart to say.
Kate White
#70. It used to be you rose up through the ranks, and by the time you got a job as a boss, you had done the work of everybody beneath you ...
Suzy Welch
#71. All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.
Benjamin Franklin
#72. Bill Paley is not only the greatest boss I ever had, but he's the most brilliant, honest and warm human being I've ever met. And I'll say that to his face - even if it costs me my job.
Jack Benny
#73. Paraguay has had a U.S. supermarket boss as its ambassador for a while. He did the job well. He was there because he wanted to be there. Rather than the British diplomat who didn't want to be there.
John Gimlette
#74. 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
#75. Her new boss was an undead automaton from hell, true. But, no job is perfect.
Daniel Suarez
#76. Make no mistake:
Your salary is held to the same standards your grades were held to in the educational system, where you couldn't surpass a 100 no matter how hard you worked or how intelligent you were.
Carlos Roche
#77. You can't give or take ten elephants, boss, said M'Bu firmly. He knew that counting elephants was a precision job. A man might be uncertain about how many wives he had, but never about elephants. Either you had one, or you didn't.
Terry Pratchett
#78. When I said I might die tomorrow, I didn't mean, like, literally tomorrow. This job is really turning out to have been a bad career move.
Angela Claire
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