Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.
The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him.
OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.
No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
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!
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.
In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.
The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.
I've never wanted to be the boss.
The first thing the secretary types is the boss.
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