Boss Quotes - Page 24

• Two things help to keep one's job. First, let the boss think he's having his own way. Second, let him have it.

  Sam Ewing

  Wisdom, Jobs, Thinking

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• Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the boss.

  Bubba Watson

  Want

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• For me, being a girlboss is about being the boss of your own life. At 26 I still don't know what's happening in my life, but I'm asking, What will make me happy next?

  Britt Robertson

  Being A Girl, Make Me Happy

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It used to be that wealthy people were the leisure class, and having time off was a status symbol. That's switched now: being busy and overworked is the reality for many white-collar workers, and there's a kind of perverse currency to that, competitive busy-ness. At the other end of the income scale, there's a swath of lower-wage workers who are underemployed or unemployed, with too much unwanted leisure, and zero status for that. For shift workers, devices mean they're accessible in ways they weren't before, susceptible to that call from the boss to log more hours.

  Katrina Onstad

  Mean, Reality, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Ever notice how seldom we lose control when frustrated by our boss, but how often we do when annoyed by friends or family?

  Lynn G. Robbins

  Anger, Annoyed, Frustrated

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• If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.

  Seth Godin

  Jobs, School, Kids

  "Back to (the wrong) school". sethgodin.typepad.com. September 05, 2011.

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• A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist of sorts, throwing his/herself into impossible situations and seeking out problems that require heart and guts to solve. Both are fine, but choose.

  Seth Godin

  Jobs, Heart, Artist

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• Now the skies could fall
  Not even if my boss should call
  The world it seems so very small
  'Cause nothing even matters at all

  Lauryn Hill

  Fall, Sky, World

  Song: Nothing Even Matters

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• When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.

  Al Neuharth

  Mistake, Clerks, Bucks

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• Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that ad, call that customer. Go the edge, that edge you've been holding back from... and do it today. Without waiting for the committee or your boss or the market. Just go.

  Seth Godin

  Running, Home, Ideas

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• Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Data, People, Leader

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• I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.

  Ralph Lauren

  Thinking, Ties, Design

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• A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.

  John Ortberg

  Often Is, Extroverts, Employee

  John Ortberg (2012). “Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus”, p.75, Zondervan

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• Scobe's Eighth Law: The moron will enter the single deck game when the count is sky high and the dealer is deciding whether or not to shuffle. The morons's entrance will convince the dealer that it's time to shuffle. You will now face a new deck with your biggest bet out and the pit boss watching closely.

  Frank Scoblete

  Gambling, Law, Sky

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• Take the time and energy to manage your boss the same way you manage your team.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

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• For you to be successful and provide your employees with the necessary tools for success, you and your boss must work together - no matter what.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

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• When I want to talk to someone from Golden Boy, I make sure Richard calls me. Bosses talk to bosses.

  Adrien Broner

  Motivation, Boys, Want

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• Christians ought to have a reputation for being the most dependable people at work. They are always aware of who their true boss is.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, People, Religion

  Sr Rick Warren (1998). “The Power to Change Your Life: Exchanging Personal Mediocrity for Spiritual Significance”, Pastors.com

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• And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed a boss so often and so completely they had to bring him back to life to pulp him one more time. Tasting hot mealcake among pine trees, they beat it away. Singing love songs to Mr. Death, they smashed his head. More than the rest, they killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on.

  Toni Morrison

  Song, Children, Flirting

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• For me, I felt bad for people asking the questions, cause you know their boss sent them out saying, 'Get me something on Mission Impossible.' And you ask the question, and it's just a polite, 'I'm not going to tell you.' Then, every so often, they'd go, 'Well, can't you just tell us a little bit?' I have to say, 'You know what guys, I'm under contract and I'm not going to tell you anything.' So you keep asking the questions and I'm just going to keep smiling. And it's hard, cause I don't want to seem rude, but it's part of my job just like it's part of their job to keep a secret.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  People, Rude, Guy

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Try to keep your mouth shut until you have a job offer, especially if your move is not entirely certain. There are only a few cases in which I think it would be appropriate to tell your boss what's going on. For example, if your spouse is being forced to relocate, obviously you are going to go, and if you have a good relationship with your boss, then it might take some stress off of you to tell the truth. The general rule, though, is not to give your employer more power over your destiny than you have yourself.

  Alexandra Levit

  Stress, Moving, Destiny

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I am working in my office. I've got a boss who tells me what to do. He's got a boss who tells him what to do. And above him is another boss who probably is telling my boss in the same way - or my boss' boss in the same way what to do. In actuality, this is not the way things work. Management science says that that kind of a chain doesn't work more than three levels up.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Office, Management, Kind

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Really, every day is the perfect day to boss up. Every day that you wake up is a perfect day to boss up. It's all about continuing to put one foot in front of the next. That's what it's about. Whatever you think you're going through, just put one foot in front of the next.

  Rick Ross

  Thinking, Perfect, Wake Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I used to work as a private detective years and years ago. And my boss gave me this one very simple piece of advice about trying to figure out who to interview first in any investigation. His recommendation: Always pick the people who were fired. Pick the people who are pissed off.

  Errol Morris

  Simple, People, Advice

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• My boss at Christmas was a lot of fun: "I want you to look in your pay envelopes and you'll know that I keep the Christmas spirit around here. Because in each and every envelope you'll find ... snow."

  David Ketchum

  Funny, Snow, Looks

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