Boss Quotes - Page 25

• There are times when you have sharp elbows, and people are trying to muscle you out of certain meetings - because then people could leak to the press that you had a role in certain decisions. I, at twenty-six, was very impatient and didn't know how to keep my powder dry. I was running a team of seventy-five people when I had never been a boss. I was the worst boss ever.

  Atul Gawande

  Running, Team, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Throughout my entire career as a coach, I've never had a boss. Presidents have been able to hire and fire me. But that didn't make them my bosses, not even at Real Madrid. I have such a strong sense of responsibility that I exercise my profession like an entrepreneur.

  Jupp Heynckes

  Strong, Real, Responsibility

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My only boss was the clock on the wall and my only friend, never really was a friend at all. I've traded love for pennies, sold my soul for less. Lost my ideas in that long tunnel of time. And I've turned inside out and around about and back and then found myself right back where I started again

  Jim Croce

  Wall, Tunnels, Ideas

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• Win with your heart, not your head - win on emotion, not in logic; have a passion about what you do; nobody wants a boss, everybody wants a coach.

  Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

  Passion, Heart, Winning

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• The way social media is now, and people are with cameras - we all live different lives whether you're in the spotlight or not. I mean, you can't be a boss or an executive of a big time company and act a fool, because there are cameras everywhere and people are going to document it and take pictures. I'm not used to stuff like that.

  Erin Andrews

  Mean, People, Different

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When all my mates used to think they were proper rude boys, they used to take the piss out of me for wearing casual clothing. But in terms of a faux pas, I reckon I'm too proud to admit it - I'm of the opinion that I always look boss.

  Jack O'Connell

  Thinking, Boys, Rude

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every working mother struggles with the BlackBerry, knowing the boss can call.

  Samantha Power

  Mother, Struggle

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• Perhaps sometimes we have self-serving sense that we often experience when we believe we know better than our boss, our teacher, our spouse or partner, our friends, our political leaders - if only they would listen to us!

  Mary C. Gentile

  Teacher, Believe, Leader

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• You know what I hate about working? Bosses...The very idea that ANYONE could be my boss, well...I think you see the conflict.

  Bill Hicks

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

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• The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.

  Anthony Minghella

  Writing, Slave, Ownership

  Interview with Robert J. Elisberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1999.

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• With Gargoyles, I didn't want to walk away. I liked the idea too much, I was too passionate about it and so I went to my bosses and said, "Guys, I want to produce this show." Their initial response, lets call it dubious, but they let me give it a shot and sort of the rest is history. I moved from one side of the desk to the other side of the desk, and became a full time writer which had always been the goal, but I came about getting the actual work in a sort of roundabout way.

  Greg Weisman

  Giving, Goal, Guy

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• If you are late for work in Mumbai and reach the station just as the train is leaving the platform, don't despair. You can run up to the packed compartments and find many hands unfolding like petals to pull you on board. And while you will probably have to hang on to the door frame with your fingertips, you are still grateful for the empathy of your fellow passengers, already packed tighter than cattle, their shirts drenched with sweat in the badly ventilated compartment. They know that your boss might yell at you or cut your pay if you miss this train.

  Suketu Mehta

  Running, Grateful, Cutting

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• No man is boss in his own home, but he can make up for it, he thinks, by making a dog play dead.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Dog, Men

  "W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles".

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• While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.

  Leonard Maltin

  Real, Done, Faces

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• Few people make a living as a public speaker but many people build it into their career. A career is like a suit of clothes: to look its best, it must be tailored and accessorized. So whatever career you choose, let's say it's social work - you can, for example, ask your boss - if you can give talks at housing project community centers about the social services available.

  Marty Nemko

  People, Giving, Community

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Jesus is knocking at your door. Take hold of the better life by letting him into your life. Make him the boss of your life. It'll change everything.

  Rick Warren

  Life, Jesus, Doors

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• When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave slide rules here." If I didn't do that, I'd find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss, you can't do it."

  Charles Kettering

  Feet, Achievement, Research

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• There's only one boss in your life . . . and that's you! The person looking back in the mirror at you is the one you have to answer to every day.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Mirrors, Answers

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• Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, "boss" others. Be the servant of all.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Yankees

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2034, Manonmani Publishers

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• 'Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say'

  Seth Godin

  Leadership, Teamwork, Mean

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• It's Good...But
  No more rush hour driving
  To start and end your day
  No more early alarm calls
  But..much less pay
  No more back stabbing
  Or rising to the bait
  No more phone calls from the boss
  Asking you to work late
  But...having to get by
  On half your hourly rate
  Now you have all day
  To sit or doze to stay to go
  Anywhere you like...
  ..cheaply
  You've got less dough
  Travel around the world
  Do anything you've desired
  But do it economically
  Now that you're retired

  John Walter Bratton

  Retirement, Phones, Phone Calls

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• I believe the most dangerous misconception is the idea our money and possessions belong to us, not God. Many of our problems begin when we forget that God is the Boss of the universe. But in fact He is more than the boss; He is the owner.

  Randy Alcorn

  Believe, Forget, Problem

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I started to change. It was sort of a restaurant mid-life crisis, you could say. I lost a lot of confidence, not so much as a father or as a friend, but as a boss, as a chef that's to make decisions throughout the day all the time. I just slowly started burning out. Once you lose your confidence like that, you start being angry in the kitchen. I couldn't recognize myself anymore. I started writing the journal. It was never meant to be a book, but the editor at Phaidon read parts of it. As editors do, I guess.

  Rene Redzepi

  Father, Book, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I used to work in an office in New York for this terrible company, and we used to have staff meetings, and I would just count how many times the boss would use the phrase "in terms of." And he would say it like 30 or 40 times. And sometimes he would just say it. He'd be like, "Uhh, in terms of, how are we doing with that?" I realized nobody knows what they're talking about. Everyone's bullshitting. Maybe not everybody, but certainly a lot of people.

  Tim Heidecker

  People, Office, Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm kind of the boss. I could fire myself if I ever got out of line, and I can hire myself too which is a good thing. It gives me a responsibility to the financial realities of the picture. I'm an extremely conscientious producer and now equally as a director and it now gives me the opportunity to look at the entire movie and allow the movie to be the creative vision of the actors, the writer and myself, because I'm in charge of it from a producer and a director point of view. It gives me freedom and it gives me a certain degree of responsibility at the same time.

  Tony Krantz

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Reality

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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