Boss Quotes

• Curiosity at work isn't a matter of style. It's much more powerful than that. If you're the boss, and you manage by asking questions, you're laying the foundation for the culture of your company or your group. You're letting people know that the boss is willing to listen.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • People
  • Work
  • Culture

• Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.

  

  James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
  • Music
  • Period
  • Door

• Your own mental attitude is your real boss.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Real
  • Attitude
  • Mental

• We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.

  

  Laurie Simmons
  • Real
  • Boss

• It's great to go to work and your boss is a black man, one of your peers, you know?

  

  Lamman Rucker
  • Work
  • Great
  • Black

• A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates

  

  Peter Drucker
  • People
  • Boss

• The Boss: The State’s your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies that by word or deed.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Discipline

• I'm my own boss, my own editor, my own shooter, my own writer, everything. This is all stuff I learned through trial and error... failing at a lot of things has taught me how to succeed at them eventually... you roll with the punches.

  

  Lilly Singh
  • Boss

• I'm just about that action, boss. I ain't ever see no talking win me nothin'.

  

  Marshawn Lynch
  • Action
  • Winning
  • inspirational

• Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the boss.

  

  Bubba Watson
  • Why
  • Boss

• I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Life
  • Good
  • Sentences

• There was always some kind of strain, but it was workable. The bigger you get, the more of a strain it is, because in your everyday life, you're less used to compromising. As you get bigger, you have your own way. But in a partnership you always have to compromise. … When you get into a partnership, you're not the boss. There's no boss. That makes it hard.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Life
  • Everyday
  • Boss

• I think that there shouldn't be an age limit to become a boss, so having that element is really important.

  

  Zendaya
  • Important
  • Age
  • Boss

• On the rare occasions when my family talked about business, the subject was Kansas City's Boss Pendergast and his potential for muscling my dad's small gravel-and-sand operation.

  

  Carol Loomis
  • Family
  • Business
  • Small

• I watch a lot of TV - 'Perfect Strangers,' 'Family Matters,' 'Who's the Boss?' - then I go over my notes in the script, lock it into my head and go to bed.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Family
  • Perfect
  • Boss

• All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Family
  • motivation
  • Engine

• When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Star
  • Picture
  • Boss

• If I want the day off, the boss never says 'No.' I paint away listening to an iTunes jazz station called KCSM Jazz Radio. It's perfect. Good music and no news traffic or celebrities.

  

  Korky Paul
  • Good
  • Music
  • Perfect

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

  

  James Levine
  • Boss

• The way social media is now, and people are with cameras - we all live different lives whether you're in the spotlight or not. I mean, you can't be a boss or an executive of a big time company and act a fool, because there are cameras everywhere and people are going to document it and take pictures. I'm not used to stuff like that.

  

  Erin Andrews
  • Different
  • Fool
  • Boss

• One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he'd say, 'Boss, we've got this, and that, and the other thing.' And I'd look at him and I'd say, 'Good.'

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Up
  • Good
  • Boss

• The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.

  

  John Ashcroft
  • Done
  • Mistake
  • Boss

• What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference is there aren't many job interviews where there's a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it. 'Well, Bill, the boss thinks you're the right man for the job; why don't you strip down and meet some of the people you'll be working with?'

  

  Jerry Seinfeld
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• 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
  • Team
  • Rock
  • Boss

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