Boss Quotes

• 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

• I've worked with Lil Wayne and Wiz, but I'd like to work with Snoop next. I love 'Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss' and 'Doggystyle' and pretty much anything he puts out. And Ice Cube - like, all the legends.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • 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

• The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today’s employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Today
  • Boss

• I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.

  

  Donald E. Westlake
  • Reality
  • Morning
  • 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

• The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions of such a man. They like him to boss them. Their natural gait is the goose step.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Democracy
  • Popular

• Walt had a seat-of-the-pants approach on what he wanted musically. We kind of 'read' the boss and had a very high batting average, but there were occasions when he felt we had just written the wrong piece for the situation he wanted. We invariably listened to what he wanted - he was very descriptive in what he wanted and we could read him. We'd go back to the drawing board and work out what he wanted. He was a great inspiration, but a tough taskmaster.

  

  Richard Sherman
  • Kind
  • Inspiration
  • Situation

• The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Boss

• I was a young actor who was bald, but at that time, there was a thing on television that - there was a prototype or a stereotype of a principal who was bald and mean with glasses, or there was... the angry boss who was bald.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Time
  • Angry
  • Boss

• 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

• My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.

  

  Jet Li
  • Family
  • Home
  • Happy

• Christmas 1972 was a lonely time for Kissinger, as well as for his boss, and a period of serious reflection. Kissinger was then a bachelor, enamored of the tall, elegant, but elusive WASP Nancy Maginnes, but still very much a bachelor - Washington's most sought-after bachelor.

  

  Alistair Horne
  • Time
  • Serious
  • Period

• 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

• On the set of 'Girlboss,' I had to keep introducing myself as the show runner - literally, 'Hi, I'm the boss' - to a lot of my crew. My first AD said, 'Why do you keep doing that?' I said, 'Because I get mistaken for an extra.'

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Why
  • Boss

• Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.

  

  Lea Seydoux
  • Life
  • God
  • Free

• I believe there is lot of untapped potential in the television market. With shows such as 'Bigg Boss' and '24' turning out to big hits on TV, I'm interested to be in it.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Believe
  • Boss

• My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the world's worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is.

  

  Anthony Horowitz
  • World
  • Work
  • She

• I was very lucky with 'Soap' and 'Who's the Boss,' which was great fun, and then went on 'Coach' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond.' I've been truly blessed, and the work has all been fun and a joy.

  

  Katherine Helmond
  • Work
  • Great
  • Fun

• You have got to boss scrums. The players need to know what you want them to adhere to. Then it is up to them to decide whether they are adhering to that or not.

  

  Alan Lewis
  • Up
  • Boss

• If you still don't like it, that's OK: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Why
  • Boss

• First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.

  

  James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
  • Time
  • Question
  • Boss

• People always think the coach is the strongest person at a club, the boss, but in truth, he's the weakest link. We're there, vulnerable, undermined by those who don't play, by the media, by the fans. They all have the same objective: to undermine the manager.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • People
  • Truth
  • Boss

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

  

  Marshawn Lynch
  • Action
  • Winning
  • inspirational

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