Boss Quotes - page 4

I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way. (Len Goodman)
Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count. View quote
Mario Teguh
It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised. View quote
Mary Cheney
In my real life, both my bosses are gay. On the 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' Andy Cohen is gay, everybody at Bravo is gay - we call them the gay mafia. Over at 'Glee' and 'The New Normal,' my boss Ryan Murphy is gay. On the show, my boss, played by Andrew Reynolds, is gay in real life. I'm surrounded by all my gay bosses. View quote
NeNe Leakes
Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues. View quote
Robert K. Greenleaf
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. View quote
Robert Pozen
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. View quote
Sinead O'Connor
I was working in customer service and had a verbally abusive boss. One day, I decided to quit and pursue my acting passion with everything I had. One week after quitting, I booked One Life to Live. View quote
Tika Sumpter
Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss. View quote
Tom Colicchio
I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week. View quote
Tony Shalhoub
In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list. (Tracy Letts)
The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children. View quote
Teresa Wright
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. View quote
Whitney Cummings
I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss. View quote
Kirk Douglas
The analysis is clear, we have a great problem with Islam, in the Netherlands too. The solution is not so complicated; what is missing are political guts and a feeling of urgency. Immigration from Islamic countries should be forbidden. We must learn to be intolerant with the intolerant, in the street, in the mosque, in court. We must answer hatred and violence by terrorists with exclusion and intolerance and show who the boss in the Netherlands is. View quote
Geert Wilders
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. View quote
Charles Erwin Wilson
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Ah well-the boss didn't have to know how to run the business. He only needed to know how to run the people who knew. View quote
David Gerrold
I said, "What do you think about it, Paul?” The boss smiled gently. "I don't. I haven't enough data.”. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Why are you so afraid of the word 'Fascism,' Doremus? Just a word-just a word! And might not be so bad, with all the lazy bums we got panhandling relief nowadays, and living on my income tax and yours-not so worse to have a real Strong Man, like Hitler or Mussolini-like Napoleon or Bismarck in the good old days-and have 'em really run the country and make it efficient and prosperous again. 'Nother words, have a doctor who won't take any back-chat, but really boss the patient and make him get well whether he likes it or not! View quote
Sinclair Lewis
There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?" "Evil's afoot." "Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now. (Jim Butcher)
The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him. View quote
Jacob M. Appel
They are not like the – patron's hands or the – blessing hands of the curate – They resemble their tools, mountains, tree trunks... The time is approaching when machines will – work FOR them – Then he will have hands like his boss – WHY NOT? – He's on the way – HIS LIFE begins TODAY [written text in his painting 'Les mains – hommage a Majakovski', 1951 - [ Vladimir Mayakovsky was a Russian Futurist poet]. View quote
Fernand Léger
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. View quote
Marlo Thomas
Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year. View quote
Simon Cowell