Quotes About Good Bosses

#1. We get through life and this is part of the education process also. In real life, we meet bad bosses and good bosses and good friends and bad friends. I think we should let the teachers do their work and not impose too much stuff on them.

Philippe Falardeau

#2. I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.

Barbara Corcoran

#3. She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#4. To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you've got to antagonise her.

Jean Giraudoux

#5. My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock.

Darin Strauss

#6. Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school.

Edward Conlon

#7. I try to show compassion to people I come into contact with and try to put good out, as much good as I can. But that's my life; that's not my work. With my work, my job is to walk in another man's shoes.

Kevin Bacon

#8. To be is to be the value of a variable.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#9. We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an external push to make us have a good time. In both cases, our future self will appreciate the help.

Virginia Postrel

#10. My advice on getting a raise is what everybody's advice is: to become a confident negotiator; but that is so hard. My admiration for women who are good at that is unbridled. Women in general have a harder time talking about money with their bosses.

Jill Abramson

#11. There will always be bosses, pastors and government officials over us - and this structure is actually a good thing. It is not our job to derail it or work around it.

David Pritchard

#12. Subordinates look for their bosses to be positive, in good humor, and cheerful. They aren't supposed to be emotional or have bad days. but leaders are guman, too, and when they are in a lousy mood and snap at a subordinate, it can have a devastating effect.

Donald T. Phillips

#13. I Have Fought the Good Fight and Won

Carmen J. Viglucci

#14. What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.

Gloria Steinem