Quotes About Your Boss

#1. Success on any level begins when you accept responsibility for creating life what you want. You are the only person who can truly make it happen. Not your boss, your business partner, your financial planner, your spouse of life-partner. Just you.

Paul Clitheroe

#2. It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.

Mary Cheney

#3. You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.

Robert Pozen

#4. 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

#5. your boss at work, or your spouse, or a group of college students via YouTube?

Matt Morris

#6. Forgive me, Paul, and I do get a little abrupt from time to time, but titles don't mean a damn thing. Your boss can give you a title. Your boss can't make people listen to you. You have to earn that. It doesn't sound like you get that yet.

Ken Goldstein

#7. Later, you can shoot your boss an e-mail and comment positively on the new strategy or ideas she suggested and say you are eager to implement them. She'll appreciate

Kate White

#8. A professional who didn't miss his target even in his death. If your boss had half your sense of humour, this Pakiland of yours would be a much livelier place.

Mohammed Hanif

#9. Any time you feel the desire to eat a pint of Cherry Garcia ice cream, commit adultery,
avoid confessing your sins, or hate your boss, your concupiscible passions are stirring.

Taylor R. Marshall

#10. If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.

John M. Gottman

#11. I think everyone starts in the mailroom at some point! It's a right of passage. Your boss has to throw something at you and order you around for at least two years.

Michael B. Jordan

#12. 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

#13. If the disk crashes - taking all of your source code with it - and you don't have a backup, it's your fault. Telling your boss "the cat ate my source code" just won't cut it.

Anonymous

#14. So every time you think about your work-life balance issue, remember what your boss is thinking about - and that's winning. Your needs may get heard - and even successfully resolved - but not if the boss's needs aren't met as well.

Jack Welch

#15. It was completely unprofessional to speak about your boss like that to someone who wasn't a trusted friend or family member you leaned on for the requisite boss-venting.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#16. You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal your true self in your pages.

Leon Uris

#17. If your boss gets drunk and offers to photocopy her posterior, do not helpfully suggest pressing reduce 75%.

Scott Adams

#18. Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed.

Robert Breault

#19. If you don't go talk to your boss, if you don't go talk to your mentors, if you don't go talk to people who can influence where you want to be, then they don't know. And they're not mind readers.

Brian Krzanich

#20. The industrialist (your boss, perhaps) demands that everything be proven, efficient, and risk free. The artist seeks none of these. The value of art is in your willingness to stare down the risk and to embrace the void of possible failure.

Seth Godin

#21. And I can't promise anything, you understand, but there's always a chance he'll want to torture your boss anyway. Just recreationally, I mean."
"Wow, that would be terrific," I said.

Robert Kroese

#22. Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.

Naomie Harris

#23. Do your job well, make sure your boss is fully informed, and don't be afraid to ask for help,

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#24. When your boss makes suggestions about your work activities, follow up on them. In

Kate White

#25. Be nice to nerds, they'll probably be your boss one day.

Bill Gates

#26. In Sales, you have to satisfy two people: One, your customer. Two, your Boss.

Praveen Kumar

#27. In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.

Rick Perlstein

#28. If you're cooking for someone important - whether it's your boss or a date - never try a new recipe and a new ingredient at the same time.

Marcus Samuelsson

#29. The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.

Seth Godin

#30. How to Score a Promotion [10w]
First make yourself irreplaceable,
then tell your boss you're leaving.

Beryl Dov

#31. You'll never get rich by working for your boss.

Felix Dennis

#32. Does your boss listen? Give clear instructions and challenge you to really go for it? Inspire you? Praise what you do well? Critique you fairly? If yes, good for you! This is going to make it easier for you to succeed. But if you've been handed a bad boss, don't despair. A

Kate White

#33. The only thing stopping you is fear, and the only thing that will get you past it is courage. What you do with your life isn't up to your parents, your boss, or your spouse. It's up to you and you alone.

Steve Pavlina

#34. Commitment is what your boss needs you to have. Choice is what you need to have.

Thomas Leonard

#35. If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.

Scott Dikkers

#36. Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic,
or the one you love, or your neighbors, or your boss,
then you must learn to control you ...
the one whose response to the difficulties of life REALLY counts.

Jim Rohn

#37. I've never been your boss, Alayna. If anything, you're the one who owns me.

Laurelin Paige

#38. When you're an assistant, you're executing the wishes of your boss.

Brad Goreski

#39. The best gifts to give: To your friend, loyalty; To your enemy, forgiveness; To your boss, service; To a child, a good example; To your parents, gratitude and devotion; To your mate, love and faithfulness; To all men and women, charity.

Oren Arnold

#40. Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.

Earl Wilson

#41. You can be a small element in a corporate system serving your boss all your life and you will retire unsatisfied with your way of living

Sunday Adelaja

#42. Tell your boss what you really think about him
and the truth shall set you free.

Patrick Murray

#43. Multitracking keeps egos in check. If your boss has three pet projects in play, chances are she'll be open to unvarnished feedback about them, but if there's only one pet project, it will be harder for her to hear the truth. Her ego will be perfectly conflated with the project.

Chip Heath

#44. The starting point of high performance is for you to identify the key result areas of your work. Discuss them with your boss. Make a list of your most important output responsibilities, and make sure that the people above you, on the same level as you, and below you are in agreement with it. For

Brian Tracy

#45. What I want the most right damn now it to forget, for one day, that I'm your boss so I can make love to you with no regrets and no what-ifs.

Elizabeth Otto

#46. If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail.

David Brent

#47. 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

#48. Now the wintertime is coming
The windows are filled with frost
I went to tell everybody
But I could not get across
Well, I wanna be your lover, baby
I don't wanna be your boss
Don't say I never warned you
When your train gets lost.

Bob Dylan

#49. 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

#50. The only factor that affects your chance of getting a raise is whether or not you've earned it. It doesn't matter if your car broke down or that your landlord's raising your rent. Those facts are not your boss's problem. All she needs to know is that you're kicking ass, like a #GIRLBOSS should.

Sophia Amoruso

#51. No one in this world is your boss! Yet people walk around with a perplexed look, thinking 'someone will take away my things!' Hey, you are the owner of the whole universe. Who can take away what is yours?

Dada Bhagwan

#52. 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

#53. Everybody forgets names and faces, and it's just inconsiderate to expect someone who isn't your boss or your sister-in-law to know exactly who you are.

Letitia Baldrige

#54. A shrug. "I wasn't sent to you until now." "Are you serious?" Incredulity sharpened my tone. "Is your boss in a bad mood, or does he suffer from time-delay up there?

Jeaniene Frost

#55. If you find it difficult to get along with your boss, try to reason with him and talk through your differences. If that doesn't work, drive him to suicide and take over the company.

Anthony Rubino Jr.

#56. The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

Andrew J. Bernstein

#57. On average, spending time with your boss is consistently rated as the least pleasurable activity in a given day.

Tom Rath

#58. 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

#59. For you to be successful and provide your employees with the necessary tools for success, you and your boss must work together - no matter what.

David Cottrell

#60. 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

#61. Before negotiating a raise, start collecting a file of evidence showing how you've impacted the bottom line ... Don't believe there's no money in the budget. Don't assume your boss knows how great you've been doing. Don't threaten to leave
you may be given the opportunity.

Pat Heim

#62. Too many people - some of them judges - seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences for what you have said. If you believe that, try insulting your boss when you go to work tomorrow. Better yet, try insulting your spouse before going to bed tonight.

Thomas Sowell

#63. A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.

Larry Wall

#64. This was the stuff nightmares were made of. Going to school in your Spiderman pj's. Giving a public speech naked. And discovering you'd accidentally slept with your boss.

Jill Shalvis

#65. If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.

J. B. Smoove

#66. Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career.

Jack Welch

#67. You have a habit of having an 'underhand', and that is why you get a boss. Otherwise, no one is your boss and no one is your underhand; such is the world.

Dada Bhagwan

#68. As a leader, it is vitally important that you keep in touch with your boss on a regular, sacrosanct basis. Chances are your boss can provide an aerial view that will make your path more clear.

Laurie Beth Jones

#69. Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.

Stephen Hawking

#70. Your boss takes a dim view of SEX?

Vincent H. O'Neil

#71. When you hear bosses talk about their best salespeople, they often refer to them as rock stars. It's the highest praise your boss can give someone on your team.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#72. At any given moment, there is always a line representing what your boss will believe. If you step over it, you will not get your budget. Go as close to that line as you can.

Grace Hopper

#73. Technology-fueled change is happening so fast that even a six-month-old process could be outdated. Saying this is the way it's always been done not only makes you sound lazy and resistant to change, but it could make your boss wonder why you haven't tried to improve things on your own.

Travis Bradberry

#74. Tomorrow you'll receive your employment contracts. Once you sign those I'm your boss." When I didn't answer he said, "That means you act the way I want you to act. That means you shelve your attitude and the twenty questions."
"Should I shelve those next to 'personality'?

Samantha Young

#75. We all in real life put on these masks - we don't swear when we're around certain people ... When we come home, when you're on your own I'm sure you're really different than when you're with your boss.

Malin Akerman

#76. I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you minimum wage? You know what your boss was trying to say? Hey if I could pay you less, I would, but it's against the law.

Chris Rock

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.

Danny Masterson

#82. 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

#83. I don't know how you drink this straight. You're badass."
"That's why I am your boss-

Andrea Cremer

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. Don't be afraid to ask for a rise, Sagittarius. Your boss always pay you less than your work is actually worth!

Robert Stone

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. When your boss assigns you a project, take good notes and ask questions regarding anything you're not sure about. Over the years, I've noticed that junior staffers are often reluctant to ask too many questions about a project - perhaps

Kate White

#91. your boss is an older sibling. You'll always be respectful, but you won't hesitate to offer frank advice when you think it's warranted - and you'll never suck up.

Gary Hamel

#92. A lot of people in my generation don't seem to get that you have to work your way up. I don't care if filing invoices is beneath you. If you don't do it, who do you think is going to? Your boss? Nope. That's why she hired you.

Sophia Amoruso

#93. If I hadn't had mentors, I wouldn't be here today. I'm a product of great mentoring, great coaching ... Coaches or mentors are very important. They could be anyone-your husband, other family members, or your boss.

Indra Nooyi

#94. Your boss doesn't care what you know, because the Google machine knows everything. Your boss cares about what you can do with what you know. That's the only thing your boss will pay for.

Thomas Friedman

#95. Understanding your boss is one of the best investments you can make in your own career.

Lynne Eisaguirre

#96. You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You are nobody's boss and nobody is your boss.

Eric Williams

#97. Take the time and energy to manage your boss the same way you manage your team.

David Cottrell

#98. Go ahead, bully me; but in 30 years, the only thing people will remember is that I am your boss

J.E. Allotey

#99. You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper, forgive your boss's temper, tolerate your spouse's moodiness, you display traces of saintliness.

Max Lucado

#100. Ladies, gentlemen, we're out of here! Your boss is upstairs, and only mildly wounded. Go help him if you have the inclination. You'll also notice the house is on fire. Make of that what you like.

Chris Wooding