Boss Quotes

In my senior year of high school, I was working at a dealership washing cars. For some reason, I asked them to give me a shot as a salesman for a shift. What happened was I sold two cars in one day and they offered me the position. After a while I decided I didn't want the job and so I told the manager I'd contracted HIV from having unprotected sex. It was only half true but I'd been feeling sick and somehow convinced myself I was really dying. I remember I sat in my boss' office, the both of us crying. Later than night he calls my dad and says 'I'm sorry your son has HIV.' It was terrible.

The worst thing about the internet, as far as Greg's bosses were concerned, was that it was now impossible to distinguish a roomful of people working diligently from a roomful of people taking the What-Kind-of-Dog-Am-I? online personality quiz

A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results.

You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.

I've got an odd, negative bond with C. Montgomery Burns. He reminds a lot of people of bosses they've worked for. He certainly reminds me of someone I'm working for.

In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

If you are the boss it's wise to remember that there are lots of things you don't know and lots of people who hope you won't find out.

Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

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.

I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.

'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason.

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

The first myth of management is that it exists.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

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

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

The boss drives people; The leader coaches them.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

The boss says 'Go'; the leader says 'Let's go!'

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.

The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says Lets GO!

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

Bob arum is Manny Pacquiao's boss, Floyd Mayweather is his own boss.

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

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

There is only one boss. The customer.

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.

Top managers love people and they want to be loved - it turns out being loved is good for your career, especially if you are the boss.

The only beef Enron employees have with top management is that management did not inform employees of the collapse in time to allow them to get in on the swindle. If Enron executives had shouted, "Head for the hills!" the employees might have had time to sucker other Americans into buying wildly over-inflated Enron stock. Just because your boss is a criminal doesn't make you a hero.

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.

I am not bossy, I am the boss.

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.

For many of us, work is the one place where we feel appreciated. The things that we long to experience at home - pride in our accomplishments, laughter and fun, relationships that aren't complex - we sometimes experience most often in the office. Bosses applaud us when we do a good job. Co-workers become a kind of family we feel we fit into.

When you're composing for somebody, that means you have a boss. You have to do what it takes to, at the end of the day, appease them.

For in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, "hold office"; every one of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the final analysis, the kind of government we get depends upon how we fulfill those responsibilities. We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.

I'm showing the boss what I can do. I was bought as a striker and I always believe I am a striker.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.

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

Finding your purpose may be a lifelong pursuit or you may have discovered it when you were 5 years old. There's no absolute timeline for anyone. That's a good reason never to give up, to keep on discovering things every day.

Fox News has effectively become the establishment. Fox has - you know, during non-election years, really tended to out flank the Republican Party in many ways in its conservatism and yet sort of lists back a little towards the, let`s say right-center establishment type figures in part because Rupert Murdock, whose Ailes`s ultimate boss over at 21st Century Fox, is a bit more pragmatic and centrist than Ailes himself.