Top 100 Quotes About Boss
#1. 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
#2. The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status.
Fred Brooks
#3. I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any difference whether it was fiction or nonfiction or short stories or whatever. I just - that's what I was destined to do.
Frank Deford
#5. A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.
Robert Townsend
#6. Great Art is collaborative but not democratic. It's OK to be the boss
Jamie Catto
#7. 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
#8. '9 to 5 the Musical' is perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to string up their boss, which is almost all of us.
Dolly Parton
#9. 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
#10. A shrink and a patient switch roles. Who is really the boss?
Mary Papas
#11. President of the United States is you know, our boss, so you know, the President and the First Lady are kinda like the Mom and the Dad of the country. And when your Dad says something you listen.
Chris Rock
#12. Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation ... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.
Victoria Gotti
#13. There are no requirements when you're using a particular genre. It's not like the genre is your boss and you have to do what it says. You can make use of the genre any way you want to, as long as you can make it work.
Charlie Jane Anders
#15. I work my back 'til it's racked with pain, the boss can't even recall my name.
Bob Seger
#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
#18. 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
#19. I'm kind of bored with being the boss of the internet. It doesn't feel right without the massage.
Martijn Benders
#20. Control what I hold and of course be the boss of myself, no-one else will bring my wealth.
Big Daddy Kane
#21. You cannot kill your boss on the first day, you cannot kill your boss on the first day, you cannot kill your boss period
Samantha Young
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees.
Gloria Steinem
#25. It's not okay to send a feeble kid out to fight our battles, and it's not okay to push people around like pawns on a fuckin chessboard and it's not okay giving orders to kill like a Mafia boss.
Stephen King
#26. 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
#27. Tom Farrell had always wished Hell on his boss. On New Years Eve ... Hell sent someone.
-Along For The Ride-
Thomas Amo
#28. And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss thought I was writing about his boss. People really put themselves, you know, in the shoes of the narrator.
Chuck Palahniuk
#29. 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
#30. I swear to God, Boss," he said one day. "Ya ain't never been a talker, but lately, if ya'd a had to rub two words together to make a fire, you'd a done froze to death.
Eli Easton
#31. If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.
Sinead O'Connor
#32. Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? You ain't so big, you're just tall.
Jimmy Reed
#33. Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#34. 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
#35. How many rivers do we have to cross,
Before we can talk to the boss?
Bob Marley
#36. You've got a devil inside you, as well, but you don't know his name yet, and, since you don't know that, you can't breathe. Baptise him, boss, and you'll feel better!
Nikos Kazantzakis
#37. A Pakistani exchange student's maternal American host "managed to summon the transforming question of her culture, built on the revolutionary idea that people are the sovereign, the boss, captains of their own fate.
She said, simply, "But what do YOU think?
Ron Suskind
#38. Dear Boss! Don't be a boss-hole.
Vikrmn
#39. I see how he feels about his world and I want to be one of the parts he prizes. I want to be worth fighting for. Worth the same kind of effort he puts into the things that matter to him. Like Dani."
"I don't tell her no human matters to the boss like Dani.
Karen Marie Moning
#40. The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
Lee Iacocca
#41. People leave companies for two reasons. One, they don't feel appreciated. And two, they don't get along with their boss.
Adam Bryant
#42. That was some branch. Did it have a vendetta against your t-shirt?"
"Guess so."
"I hope you showed it who is boss."
"Yeah, I peed on it.
Stacey Marie Brown
#43. If your instigations stop, then there will not be anyone to instigate you. All these are indeed the results of your own [past] instigations. 'You' are a King of the whole universe. 'You' do not indeed have anyone above you (as a boss, upari). 'You', yourself are the Parmatma (absolute supreme Soul).
Dada Bhagwan
#44. To play the Boss is Easy but to be it is a Different Story
Jan Jansen
#45. The best boss is the one who bosses the least.
Ralph Moody
#46. To the bunch at Ryan's Tavern who still quite justifiably blame the boss rather than themselves.
Richard Fitzgerald
#47. He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
Franz Kafka
#48. The feedback women are getting at work is amazingly ineffective or vague. You need to signal to your boss or senior colleagues that you want honest feedback, and that you promise not to take it too personally.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
#49. 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
#50. In just about every gangster movie there is a scene where the mob boss says, 'Hey, I'm just a businessman.
William Hageman
#51. Nothing like a little shared racism to build ties with the boss.
James S.A. Corey
#52. I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.
Simon Cowell
#53. Why do I regret Chelsea? I'm the boss of the richest club in the world. I have not had much time to adjust myself, but I've found a great restaurant! That is the first thing I did when I arrived!
Carlo Ancelotti
#54. If your boss hands you a project to manage and you ask what she means by "project" and "manage," this chapter is for you.
Bonnie Biafore
#55. Boss: I just heard that light travels faster than sound. I'm wondering if I should shout when I speak, just so my lips appear to sync-up with my words.
Scott Adams
#56. Boss, it's not right to joke around about a man's ... Did you call it a peeper?
Lindsay Buroker
#57. Why do you need to gallop while you fly?"
"Why do humans have to sway their arms while they walk? I dunno boss, but it just feels right.
Rick Riordan
#58. It's been a process of evolving within a family company to get the autonomy I now have from a boss like my father. If you're sitting there waiting for a pat on the back, you're going to be waiting a long time.
Donald Trump Jr.
#59. 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
#60. Stop thinking about your pretentious boss and his damn tattoos.
Skye Callahan
#61. I hope you know Cash is in the kitchen making a to-do list for me and Elliot. You let him play boss for ten minutes and he suddenly thinks he's Hillary Clinton.'~ Leon Montgomery
Destiny Booze
#62. When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.
Danny Masterson
#65. This is not a book for the wild-haired crazies your company keeps in a corner. It is a book for you, your boss, and your employees, because the best future available to us is a future where you contriubute your true self and your best work. Are you up for that?
Seth Godin
#66. If my boss knew how unproductive I am on Fridays, he wouldn't want me here either.
James Johnson
#67. The punk credo was to stand up for your own beliefs and tastes, not bow down to yet another new set of rules. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, indeed.
Billy Idol
#68. But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned so much from him.
David Boies
#69. Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that ad, call that customer. Go the edge, that edge you've been holding back from ... and do it today. Without waiting for the committee or your boss or the market. Just go.
Seth Godin
#70. 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
#71. I focused the power from my armor into my leg and kicked the door in. The metal and plastic fibers splintered and the hinges ripped free from the wall.
"By the way, boss," HARV said. "I believe that the door was unlocked.
John Zakour
#72. I'm not an easy lay, I won't do a one-night stand, and my father is a mob boss with a short temper and a collection of guns. Still want to take me out?" - Ana Avdonin
Bethany-Kris
#73. I hated my last boss. He asked, Why are you two hours late? I said, I fell downstairs. He said, That doesn't take two hours.
Johnny Carson
#74. The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.
Jeanne DuPrau
#75. Dick Wolf was my first boss after coming out of Sarah Lawrence.
Elisabeth Rohm
#76. If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it. Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair the boss has been, or what a mean scoundrel someone has proved to be, all this makes no difference to you when you awaken to your mental and spiritual powers.
Joseph Murphy
#77. Let me speak to your boss I said. Six magic words that roil deep in the bowels of anymore collecting a paycheck on a biweekly basis. It's like winking at a leprechaun: he has to give up his pot of gold, and yet no one knows why.
Walter Mosley
#78. Quite a lot of British women stop working when they have children, and that is rarely the case in Denmark. We have a very flat, structured way of approaching everything. Nobody's the boss. In a sense, we're all equal.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
#79. Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.
Napoleon Hill
#80. You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.
Steven Moffat
#81. Don't be afraid to ask for a rise, Sagittarius. Your boss always pay you less than your work is actually worth!
Robert Stone
#83. In America the scale of medical embezzlement is extraordinary. According to Donald Berwick, the ex-boss of Medicare and Medicaid (the public health schemes for the old and poor), America lost between $82 billion and $272 billion in 2011 to medical fraud and abuse.
Anonymous
#84. When a girl tries to lead, she is often labeled bossy. Boys are seldom called bossy because a boy taking the role of a boss does not surprise or offend.
Sheryl Sandberg
#85. According to [the Bible], a leader is first and foremost a servant. His concern is not for himself; his concern is not to give orders, to boss other people around, to have his own way. His concern is to meet the needs of others.
Wayne Mack
#86. This is what you get for letting rednecks play with antimatter, boss
John Ringo
#87. About my boss, Tyler tells me, if I'm really angry, I should go to the post office and fill out a change-of-address card and have all his mail forwarded to Rugby, North Dakota.
Chuck Palahniuk
#88. 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
#89. My only boss was the clock on the wall and my only friend, never really was a friend at all. I've traded love for pennies, sold my soul for less. Lost my ideas in that long tunnel of time. And I've turned inside out and around about and back and then found myself right back where I started again
Jim Croce
#90. When you take on more than the norm, your boss can't help but think that you're capable of a bigger role. This includes showing that you're willing to take risks by making innovative suggestions.
Travis Bradberry
#91. It's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.
Candace Bushnell
#92. And then you get some jerk for a boss. And you think, 'I wish God was my boss. That would be awesome. He wouldn't care about my sales sheet. He would care about my soul sheet.' Then you feel a little embarrassed because that was such a low-quality joke.
Jon Acuff
#93. 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
#95. The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.
David Eddings
#96. If I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I will go in. I like real estate because I am the boss.
Lorraine Bracco
#97. I can have a whole year off. I'm really lucky because I'm my own boss, so I make the rules and get to choose when I take time off.
Sharleen Spiteri
#98. 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
#99. A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results.
Simon Sinek
#100. I don't know how you drink this straight. You're badass."
"That's why I am your boss-
Andrea Cremer
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