Boss Quotes - Page 18

• 'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'

  Tom Colicchio

  Mean, Chef, You Re The Best

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• Who's Myrnin?" Claire controlled an urge to roll her eyes. "Badass crazy vampire scientist who's my boss." "You realize no part of that sentence made sense, right?

  Rachel Caine

  Badass, Crazy, Eye

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town: The Morganville Vampires”, p.231, Penguin

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• You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper, forgive your boss's temper, tolerate your spouse's moodiness, you display traces of saintliness.

  Max Lucado

  Baby, Self, Forever

  Max Lucado (2011). “Live Loved: Experiencing God's Presence in Everyday Life”, p.94, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you don't make a conscious choice... someone else will decide for you. It may be your boss, a family member, an advertiser, a collective social influence, or someone or something else, but it won't be something of your deliberate choosing.

  Steve Pavlina

  Thought Provoking, Choices, May

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• Shane looked faintly injured. “I make it my business to know everything about silver. And I saw your notes. I study up on everything when it comes to your boss, anyway.” There was a flicker of jealousy about that, but she didn’t have time, or energy, to consider it very much. Not even whether or not she liked it.

  Rachel Caine

  Energy, Saws, Study

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• Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don't treat people as you would like to be treated. This presupposes that everyone breathes the same psychological oxygen as you. For example, if you are competitive, everyone must be similarly competitive. If you like to be praised in public, everyone else must, too. Everyone must share your hatred of micromanagement.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Oxygen, People, Hatred

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

  Peter Brimelow

  Teacher, Mean, Defense

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• I wish I were strong enough to ignore what others say, but experience tells me I often can't. Allowing myself to feel upset, even really upset, and then move on - that's something I can do.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Strong, Moving, Often Can

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.59, Knopf

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• EPMD in effect, I'm clockin' mad green
  Like Kermit the Frog, sloppy like Boss Hog,
  Girl was runnin' wild...ate her like a corn dog.

  PMD

  Girl, Dog, Rap

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• When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.

  Scott Adams

  People, Stories, Tabloids

  "Scott Adams Keeps the Home Office Humming". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. September 7, 1997.

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• Rappers on their sophomores...actin' like they boss lords.
  Fame's such a funny thing for sure when niggas start believing all those encores.

  Pusha T

  Believe, Rap, Funny Things

  Song: Don't Fuck With Me

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• When I was with the Labor Party, I'd get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote, or proposed to write about, wasn't conducive to their policies or to electoral success.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Party, Writing, Determined

  "'The Trouble Is the West'". Interview with Rogier van Bakel, reason.com. October 10, 2007.

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• Soup's on and I got a coupon.
  Chinese restaurant asking for the Grey Poupon.
  He said "No, duck sauce, soy sauce...
  And this ain't no Burger King, so you no get no toy, boss."

  Daniel Dumile

  Kings, Rap, Ducks

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• I said 'boss' and I meant that, advance you spent that
  Corvette so clean, you'll think Bruce Springsteen rent that

  Rick Ross

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Clean

  Song: Fuck Em

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• Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their "personal style" was their "brand." ("It" starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team. Sorry to be politically insensitive, but who would give a hoot about Tibet if it weren't for the look and style of the Dalai Lama?) Boss at any level: You're either on the "it" boat-or not.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Sorry, Team

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• Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job. To their standards, not their boss.' So whereas most people divide their lives between time spent earning money and time spent spending it, designers generally lead a seamless existence in which work and play are synonymous. As Milanese designer Richard Sapper put it: "I never work-all the time."

  Alvin Toffler

  Jobs, Play, People

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• I had several different bosses during the early years of 'Dilbert.' They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else.

  Scott Adams

  Years, Different, Dilbert

  "An Interview with the "Dilbert" Cartoonist Scott Adams" by Zachary Kanin, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2008.

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• You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

  Steven Moffat

  Waste, Wasting Time, Should

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• You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little. I need my bosses' goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more.

  Lloyd Blankfein

  Mean, People, Needs

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• Act like a lady think like a man

  Steve Harvey

  Men, Thinking, Harvey

  Steve Harvey (2010). “男人的上半身去哪了?”, Mai Tian/Tsai Fong Books

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• I want you to take a moment here and write down all the problems that are plaguing you at this moment, from big to small. Now ask yourself what you contributed in creating your current situation. Did the professor fail you because you never went to class? Did your boss yell at you because you were on YouTube instead of working?

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Writing, Class

  Jillian Michaels (2011). “Unlimited: A Three-Step Plan for Achieving Your Dreams”, p.84, Harmony

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• Just know that it’s fear that keeps most people working at a job. The fear of not paying their bills. The fear of being fired. The fear of not having enough money. the fear of starting over. That’s the price of studying to learn a profession or trade, and then working for money. Most people become a slave to money… and then get angry at their boss.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Anger, Starting Over

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.49, Robert Kiyosaki

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• But here's the thing about being honest: All the liars HATE you for it, and most of the people in the world are liars. They lie to their bosses, they lie to their families, they lie to themselves, they lie so much they don't even know they're lying anymore. If you have the courage to be honest even a little bit all those people will hate you for it, because their lie is reflected in your honesty. Oscar Wilde wasn't kidding when he said, "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

  Tucker Max

  Honesty, Lying, Hate

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• 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.

  Simon Cowell

  Suicide, Running, Pain

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• If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing.

  Franz Kafka

  Fall, Thinking, Talking

  Franz Kafka, General Press (2016). “Metamorphosis”, p.8, GENERAL PRESS

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