Boss Quotes - Page 19

• On an otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American Dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window.

  Larry Correia

  Dream, Tuesday, Stories

  Larry Correia (2015). “Monster Hunter International, Second Edition”, p.6, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Want

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• There's nothing like confidence. Your bosses will appreciate it.

  Mary Carillo

  Appreciate

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• When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.

  Janis Joplin

  Magic, Together, Band

  "On the Road with Janis Joplin". Book by John Byrne Cooke, 2014.

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• The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?

  Donny Deutsch

  Inspirational, People, Firsts

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• I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.

  Simon Cowell

  Salary, Wanted

  "Simply Simon". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2007.

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• I'm my own boss and my boss is a total ass.

  Aisha Tyler

  Ass, My Own

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• We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.

  Andy Rooney

  Home, Night, College

  "Great lines from "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney". www.cnn.com. November 5, 2011.

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• Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing politics and soft-soaping their bosses. Boards don't like tough, abrasive guys.

  Carl Icahn

  Intelligent, Creative, Guy

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• As the 'Batman' TV series was returning to ABC for its second season in 1967, the TV bosses decided to take Catwoman into another direction... lucky for me.

  Eartha Kitt

  Lucky, Tvs, Catwoman

  "The Many Faces of Catwoman". Documentary, January 18, 2005.

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• I live in Los Angeles and I had been drinking one night, so I was on the walk of fame and I saw Tony Danza's star and I started urinating on it. Just yelling out, 'Who's the boss now?'

  Zach Galifianakis

  Stars, Drinking, Night

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• So I didn't pass. It was the army's decision that they didn't want me to go into the service. They're the boss. I don't want to say no whole lot about it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Army, Boxing, Decision

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• The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children.

  Teresa Wright

  Children, Player, Privacy

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• I've learned from doing my own show with Fox that people are not your partners if they're signing the checks. Whoever signs your paycheck is the boss - no matter what they tell you.

  Joan Rivers

  People, Matter, Foxes

  "Joan Rivers Interview: Her 6 Best One-Liners". Interview with Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 12, 2013.

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• The Republican Party is saying that the president of the United States has bosses, that the union bosses this president around - the unions boss him around. Does that sound to you like they are consciously or subconsciously deliver the racist message that, of course - of course, a black man can't be the real boss?

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Real, Stupid, Party

  "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.nbcnews.com. February 28, 2011.

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• The boss isn't always right, but he is the boss.

  David Robertson

  Bridges, Abel

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• Women are the more important members of relationships. Women are the survivors, the nurturers and the bosses, despite men pretending it's a male dominated society.

  Ray Martin

  Women, Important, Males

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• One moment it was there, another moment it is gone. One moment we are here, and another moment we have gone. And for this simple moment, how much fuss we make! How much violence, ambition, struggle, conflict, anger, hatred, just for this small moment! Just waiting for the train in a waiting room on a station, and creating so much fuss: fighting, hurting each other, trying to possess, trying to boss, trying to dominate - all that politics. And then the train comes and you are gone forever.

  Rajneesh

  Hurt, Struggle, Ambition

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• Well I'm a-gonna raise a fuss, I'm gonna raise a holler
  About workin' all summer just to try an' earn a dollar
  Everytime I call my baby, to try to get a date
  My boss says, no dice, son, you gotta work late
  Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do
  'cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.

  Eddie Cochran

  Summer, Baby, Son

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• You can give me detention. Oh, wait, that's right...you aren't the boss of me. So I guess you can just bite me. -Dean

  Jeff Mariotte

  Giving, Waiting, Dean

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• In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

  Edward Abbey

  Funny, Dog, Pet

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• I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I'm not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests... I am the candidate of the people...

  Shirley Chisholm

  Country, America, People

  "African-American and Female in One Candidate". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2008.

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• I like my father being the boss in my life

  Shreya Ghoshal

  Father

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• We have a bow and arrow and if we aim well, we can hit the target. The problem is that Bayern has a bazooka. The probability that they will hit the target is clearly higher.

  Jurgen Klopp

  Anfield, Target, Bazookas

  "Jürgen Klopp’s Best Quotes: From Heavy Metal to Hair Transplants" by Sean Meehan, www.theguardian.com. October 08, 2015.

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• Your husband is the boss - and don't forget it.

  Mamie Eisenhower

  Husband, Forget, Your Husband

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