Quotes About Being Your Own Boss

#1. A job should only be a stepping stone to being your own boss

Sunday Adelaja

#2. It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way.

Ani DiFranco

#3. Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.

Nolan Bushnell

#4. There isn't any such thing as being your own boss in this world unless you're a tramp, and then there's the constable.

George Horace Lorimer

#5. Homeworkers embody the real American Dream. Not fame or fortune, but being your own boss. Calling your own shots. Taking control of your life, not necessarily to work more--or less--but to work the way you want to work.

Lionel Fisher

#6. I'm single, I'm enjoying life. Being a boss. Like all true bosses, one day you gotta give it up.

Rick Ross

#7. The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to work with the aim of being promoted to what he has.

Tim Harford

#8. I'm a Gatorade athlete because dance is being recognized as a sport now. It always should have been, but now it is. It's very exciting.

Stephen Boss

#9. Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity.

Medard Boss

#10. People work around you and next to you and the universe waits for the perfect time to whisper in your ear, "Look this way." There is someone in your life right now who may end up being your enemy, your wife, or your boss. Lift up your head and you may notice.

Amy Poehler

#11. Christians ought to have a reputation for being the most dependable people at work. They are always aware of who their true boss is.

Rick Warren

#12. If it weren't for my breast cancer, I wouldn't be a 'Today' host. After I got better, I talked to my boss about working on the show. Six months before, I'd have been terrified to go in there and ask for what I wanted. But after what I'd been through, how could I be scared of being told no?

Hoda Kotb

#13. My happiness isn't connected to my husband's or my boss's or my children's behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being.

Michelle Obama

#14. I cannot wait for her to stop being a teenager." "I can," Nib said. "Do you know how impossible it's going to be to boss her around when she's twenty?

Becky Chambers

#15. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, I am the boss! I am the boss!

Tina Fey

#16. The ability to sell - to communicate to another human being, be it a customer, employee, boss, spouse, or child - is the base skill of personal success.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#17. I'm kind of bored with being the boss of the internet. It doesn't feel right without the massage.

Martijn Benders

#18. Every boss, if you are forgetting, is another human being made of bones and flesh and likes it when his ego gets stroked.

Abhishek Ratna

#19. I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.

Ron Paul

#20. It doesn't matter if someone calls you a bad bitch, boss bitch, gangsta bitch, whatever, you're still being called a bitch and if you like it then they are right. You are a bitch. A dumb one at that. Yeah, I said it.

Sa'id Salaam

#21. I love improving, I love being creative and I love being my own boss.

Teddy Sears

#22. any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said. We mitigate when we're being polite, or when we're ashamed or embarrassed, or when we're being deferential to authority. If you want your boss to do you a favor, you

Malcolm Gladwell

#23. I like my father being the boss in my life

Shreya Ghoshal

#24. A boss in essence is every woman willing to try, push, succeed, fail but ultimately do the work in her lifescape to make her mark on the world the way she wants to draw it.

Jaha Knight

#25. I always thought that being at Time and tweaking your bosses and exploiting your expense account was just fun. Just joyous.

Joel Stein

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. In hierarchal organizations, the boss is a supreme being. In tribal organizations, the boss is just another worker.

Daniel Quinn

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

Arno Hintjens

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

Patrick Ness

#33. I had no intention of becoming a comedian. I just wanted to make people happy. I tried everything-I shucked oysters, I painted houses, I sold vacuum cleaners. But there was always a voice saying, You should be doing something different. And it was usually my boss and I was being fired.

Ellen DeGeneres

#34. Still, that didn't stop the flare of heat from returning to Melody's chest. "You called my boss a b word."
Declan zeroed his gaze on hers. "No, I said she was being one, and she was. To you. And I didn't like it.

Brooklyn Skye

#35. I played the character knowing that she was knocked down, 100 percent, dead-in-front-of-a-bus in love with her boss. Every scene, I did not care if it was about taxes or about, you know, getting rid of the penny, it was all about me being in love with him.

Janel Moloney

#36. I don't like crowds because I am small and fear being trampled. My ideal night out is a dinner party in my backyard with a group of like-minded friends whom I boss around in a gentle and loving way.

Amy Poehler

#37. Being a fan of dance and a dancer, I love my classic dance movies.

Stephen Boss

#38. People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man ... I'm the boss.

Lily Allen

#39. Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

Robert Frost

#40. 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

#41. Being my own boss and working inside an industry that's not really an industry, I need to keep busy and keep working. The only way to make money in music - unless you're managing someone - is to tour, and even that depends on where you are at.

Kyp Malone

#42. At some point in time, in the future, people are going to refer to the Step Up films as the films they grew up on. Hopefully, that inspires them to get in dance films that are being made.

Stephen Boss