Quotes About The Boss

#1. So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

Marlo Thomas

#2. While everyone's focusing on keeping the boss happy, who's focusing on keeping the customer happy?

James Hunter

#3. Anyone watching '30 Rock' always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She's the boss; Liz Lemon just works here.

Rob Sheffield

#4. We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.

Craig Johnston

#5. 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

#6. They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder.

Dolly Parton

#7. The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Donald Trump

#8. People ask the difference between a leader and a boss ... The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Theodore Roosevelt

#9. Baker's point of view: Femi directed her cat eyes to me with a devious glint in them. "So you've been banging the boss's daughter." I choked on my sandwich. She raised an eyebrow. "That's pretty gutsy, Baker." Holden pinched the bridge of his nose and an angry vein popped out of his forehead.

Liz Schulte

#10. For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it, no wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can't paint in Paris, you'd better give up and marry the boss's daughter.

Alan Jay Lerner

#11. 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

#12. The effective executive, therefore, asks: "What can my boss do really well?" "What has he done really well?" "What does he need to know to use his strength?" "What does he need to get from me to perform?" He does not worry too much over what the boss cannot do.

Peter F. Drucker

#13. I have to keep her in line somehow or she'll think she's the boss of everything.

Michael Thomas Ford

#14. A good game gives us meaningful accomplishment - clear achievement that we don't necessarily get from real life. In a game, you've beaten level four, the boss monster is dead, you have a badge, and now you have a super laser sword. Real life isn't like that, right?

Jesse Schell

#15. My relationship with George Steinbrenner was great. He was the boss, and I accepted that.

Joe Torre

#16. Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.

Quincy Jones

#17. Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.

James Levine

#18. When you run an organization like the Teamsters one man has to be the boss and run things.

Jimmy Hoffa

#19. I'd like to show you who's the boss, but I'm afraid it would only
confirm that you are.

Jane Seabrook

#20. When I get home, I'm not the boss like I am at work - I slip into a more feminine role. I take everything off and put on my Stella McCartney silk robe. I'll put on a red lip or red nails, and it lifts my mood. Sexy underwear also gives you a spark.

Miranda Kerr

#21. I was in charge, but I made logic the boss.

Berry Gordy Jr.

#22. I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

Whitney Cummings

#23. 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

#24. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

George Edward Woodberry

#25. Do I look like I'm compelled to do anything? Do I seriously look like anyone could compel me to even bring them a coaster?"
She looked me over again. "You look like you're compelled to cause trouble, but I doubt that's the boss' directive.

Debra Dunbar

#26. You've missed the bus. Are you calling in sick again? It's the second time in two years. The boss will frown upon it.

Benjamin R. Smith

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Great Art is collaborative but not democratic. It's OK to be the boss

Jamie Catto

#30. 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

#31. A shrink and a patient switch roles. Who is really the boss?

Mary Papas

#32. I work my back 'til it's racked with pain, the boss can't even recall my name.

Bob Seger

#33. The boss isn't always right, but he is the boss.

David Robertson

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

Martijn Benders

#35. Control what I hold and of course be the boss of myself, no-one else will bring my wealth.

Big Daddy Kane

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. How many rivers do we have to cross,
Before we can talk to the boss?

Bob Marley

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Lee Iacocca

#43. To play the Boss is Easy but to be it is a Different Story

Jan Jansen

#44. To the bunch at Ryan's Tavern who still quite justifiably blame the boss rather than themselves.

Richard Fitzgerald

#45. He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.

Franz Kafka

#46. Nothing like a little shared racism to build ties with the boss.

James S.A. Corey

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. The boss says 'I'; the leader, 'we'.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#51. Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.

Gary Lineker

#52. All this and the wine's coming in and out, and by the time the waiters set the espressos down Callan's about half in the bag. He watches Calabrese take a long sip from an espresso cup. Then the boss says, "Tell me why I shouldn't kill you."
One motherfuck of an essay question.

Don Winslow

#53. 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

#54. I've learned from doing my own show with Fox that people are not your partners if they're signing the checks. Whoever signs your paycheck is the boss - no matter what they tell you.

Joan Rivers

#55. Take away fear of competition, of failure, of loss of markets, of humiliation, of becoming obsolete, and the culture would r stop; take away the fear the urnon man has of the boss and the union would blow away;

Anonymous

#56. In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Woody Allen

#57. 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

#58. You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

Steven Moffat

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. 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

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

Shreya Ghoshal

#63. Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has a right to tell the police to arrest you.

Lenny Bruce

#64. The Boss is an honorable man. After the Lord, the most godly person I've ever met."
"You've met God?"
"Certainly. I telephone Him every night.

Haruki Murakami

#65. In a way, the very success which the Boss laid on Tiny was his revenge on Tiny, for every time the Boss put his meditative, sleepy, distant gaze on Tiny, Tiny would know, with a cold clutch at his fat heart, that if the Boss should crook a finger there wouldn't be anything but the whiff of smoke.

Robert Penn Warren

#66. 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

#67. The person who works harder when the boss isn't around is headed straight for a better job.

Napoleon Hill

#68. The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.

Jacob M. Appel

#69. I read in a book that they cut off the workers' hands if they hadn't collected enough rubber by the end of the day. The Belgian foremen would bring baskets full of brown hands back to the boss, piled up like a mess of fish. Could this be true of civilized white Christians? In

Barbara Kingsolver

#70. Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems.

Donald Rumsfeld

#71. The secret is that effective executives make the strengths of the boss productive.

Peter F. Drucker

#72. Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle. So, in that sense, novels are easier because you don't have to answer to anyone. And then, you go into something like film and there are more cooks in the kitchen, so to speak.

Nicholas Sparks

#73. I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.

James Stockdale

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. I live in Los Angeles and I had been drinking one night, so I was on the walk of fame and I saw Tony Danza's star and I started urinating on it. Just yelling out, 'Who's the boss now?'

Zach Galifianakis

#77. What exactly did you expect me to do? I told The Boss what you said, but he's not going to budge. Nobody gets dental.

H.D. Smith

#78. 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

#79. Please let the boss know that I wouldn't eat his food if God told me to.

AshleyNicole

#80. Every dollar that the boss did not work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it.

William C. Dudley

#81. A boss should be respectful of everybody. He should still make sure everybody knows that he is the boss, without having to say it 24/7, but by him approaching you in a way that led you to know that you mean something to the company.

Kevin Clash

#82. 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

#83. We need to be responsible for ourselves; we must create our own republics. Today we hand over our responsibility to the boss, to the company, to government, and then blame them when everything goes wrong.

Tom Hodgkinson

#84. Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the boss which must be changed?.

Lucy Parsons

#85. I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.

Gregg Easterbrook

#86. Jesus is knocking at your door. Take hold of the better life by letting him into your life. Make him the boss of your life. It'll change everything.

Rick Warren

#87. Women have traditionally took secondary roles to men. I want to be the boss not the secretary.

Bianca Frazier

#88. Ever since I became an executive producer of 30 Rock, people have asked me, 'Is it hard for you, being the boss?' And, 'Is it uncomfortable for you to be the person in charge?' You know, in that same way they say, 'Gosh, Mr. Trump, is it awkward for you to be the boss of all these people?

Tina Fey

#89. Cooper took his hat off and swiped his forehead. Finally he spoke. "Well, Frank, to my mind, what a woman does or doesn't do should be up to the woman. She should be who she is, not what others expect her to be." It's her land. As far as I'm concerned she's the boss.

Stephanie Grace Whitson

#90. You're not the boss of me," she told him breathlessly.
His chuckle sounded strangled. "Pretend I am for a while.

Cherry Adair

#91. The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and it can be a benevolent dictatorship, but it's a dictatorship nonetheless. A lot of directors go past their first experience, that's what they've come away with.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#92. You're the boss of clutter, not the other way around.

Monika Kristofferson

#93. The Boss will release the four horsemen." I swallowed hard. "I guess you're not talking about the Kentucky Derby kind of horsemen?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#94. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says 'I'; The leader says 'We'.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#95. Mick's album was called She's the Boss, which said it all. I've never listened to the entire thing all the way through. Who has? It's like Mein Kampf. Everybody had a copy, but nobody listened to it.

Keith Richards

#96. So I didn't pass. It was the army's decision that they didn't want me to go into the service. They're the boss. I don't want to say no whole lot about it.

Muhammad Ali

#97. A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss?

Mary Papas

#98. I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.

Adam Oates

#99. True," Brymmer said, and then found himself wrestling with the old Shall I Argue With The Boss Now problem, which perfectly defined a lose-lose situation. If you argued and were wrong, you would never have a future. If you argued and were right, you would never be forgiven.

Walt Cody

#100. I'm just as famous as my mentor ... but that's still the boss don't get sent for

Drake