Boss Quotes

• People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Differences, People

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

  Peter Marshall

  Happiness, Success, People

  Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”

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

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Motivational, Hilarious

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• The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leader, Inspire, Enthusiasm

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  John Ashcroft

  Business, Mistake, Done

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• Your own mental attitude is your real boss.

  Napoleon Hill

  Attitude, Real, Real Boss

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.41, Penguin

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

  Gene Mauch

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• Everything I've done feels like I'm just as much a part of it as if I was the producer. It's still the same job: all of us together figuring out the common good for a song. That's the only thing that matters. It's not like, "I'm the boss, and I'm gonna tell you what to play."

  Vince Gill

  Song, Jobs, Play

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Selfish, Acceptance, Would Be

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• A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

  Bobby Darin

  Money, Business, Artist

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• Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Truth, Real, Mind

  Napoleon Hill (2016). “Your Right to Be Rich”, p.116, Jaico Publishing House

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• Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny Work, Levels, Dignity

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

  Tim Gould

  Funny Work, Middle Management, Lows

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• Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Morning, Next, Firsts

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• I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Anniversary, Jobs

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• A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.

  Tina Fey

  Baby, School, Way

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• I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend.

  Frank Gifford

  Sports, Father, Knowing

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• The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Harry Gordon Selfridge

  Leader, Boss And Leader

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• The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status.

  Fred Brooks

  Discipline, Information, Firsts

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

  Harry Gordon Selfridge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leader

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• I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Team, Cinema, Spirit

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• What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Success, Business, Congratulations

  "The Queen of Daytime TV". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. February 25, 1991.

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

  Harry Gordon Selfridge

  Leader, Boss And Leader

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• Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Self, Pay

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