Boss Quotes - Page 26

• I've had friends who have come away who've said, "I shouldn't have become such close friends with the director." You always want to get on with the director, but I personally prefer a relationship where you respect them - you get on really well with them, but they're boss, as it were. It's about trusting your director, for better or for worse. They're the one's seeing what's coming out on the monitors, so you have to try and trust what they say.

  Douglas Booth

  Trying, Close Friends

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I believe that it doesn't matter where you work or what you have access to because anything can help. If you're working in an ice cream shop, you can ask your boss if you can give away twenty ice cream cones to an organization every Friday afternoon. It's really interesting to see what people are willing to help you with if you can make it easy for them.

  Rachel Roy

  Friday, Believe, People

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I just like the idea of getting to be my own boss, in a sense. Getting to decide what I want to do. Though it's also really nice to have no responsibility whatsoever, outside of being an actor, and have everyone else be worried about all the details.

  Anna Paquin

  Nice, Responsibility, Worried

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• You just don't notice the time of your own metamorphosis. Until you do. Every once in a while time dissolves and you remember what you liked as a kid. You jump on your hotel bed, order dessert first, decide to put every piece of jewelry you own on your body and leave the house. Why? Because you can. Because you're the boss. Because... Ooooh. Shiny.

  Sloane Crosley

  Growing Up, Kids, Dessert First

  FaceBook post by Sloane Crosley from Nov 15, 2014

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• In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.

  Tracy Letts

  Decision, Lists, Theater

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• Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What do I or my people do that hampers you?"

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Years, People

  "Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1992.

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• In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal.

  Leon Uris

  Self, Order, Two

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• He [Donald Trump] is a tough boss. I've known him for decades. He hasn't changed very much. He's a driven person, highly intelligent, and he's very motivated, very charismatic, and he is tough as nails in the sense there's no slack there. You can't put anything over on Donald. Donald can see right through someone trying to dissemble or spin stuff.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Intelligent, Trying, Nails

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In my career? Me. I'm the boss. I'm the end all and be all. I'm the alpha and omega in that.

  Morgan Freeman

  Careers, Ends, Alpha And Omega

  "Morgan Freeman Talks Lucky Number Slevin". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. March 31, 2006.

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• In my home, who is my boss? If you ask my wife she'll say certainly not her. She claims that she can't make me do anything and so she's not my boss. I am. I'm pretty sure, maybe.

  Morgan Freeman

  Home, Wife, Claims

  "Morgan Freeman Talks Lucky Number Slevin". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. March 31, 2006.

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• As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they would never dominate their wives.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Home, Wife, Office

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word and other words”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• A job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with.

  Nick Kroll

  Jobs, People, Boring

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I always knew I had to be 100 percent in charge, even when I was a middle manager. I used to say to my boss, "Just give me enough rope and then fire me."

  Ricky Gervais

  Fire, Giving, Rope

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• Subordinates look for their bosses to be positive, in good humor, and cheerful. They aren't supposed to be emotional or have bad days. but leaders are guman, too, and when they are in a lousy mood and snap at a subordinate, it can have a devastating effect.

  Donald T. Phillips

  Motivational, Bad Day, Emotional

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• I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss's head.

  Todd Rundgren

  Work, Pounds, Sticks

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• Every time I call my baby and ask to get a date, my boss says, no dice son, you gotta work late.

  Eddie Cochran

  Baby, Work, Son

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• Every day when I get home from work, I feel so frustrated, my boss is a jerk.

  Todd Rundgren

  Work, Home, Frustrated

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• Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? You ain't so big, you're just tall.

  Jimmy Reed

  Work, Men, Bigs

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• The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss touched by her white rays, glows as if lighted with snow.

  John Muir

  Moon, Light, Rocks

  John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.15, e-artnow

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• Divine love is the sublime boss of the universe.

  John Muir

  Love Is, Sublime, Divine

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.308, The Mountaineers Books

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• A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!

  Arno Hintjens

  Ashamed, Decent, Humans

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• The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Book, School

  "Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1992.

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• Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: "I know what Anne [or John] is trying to do."

  Peter Drucker

  Trying, Able, Responsible

  "Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1992.

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• The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Differences, Needs, Ottomans

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1728, Random House

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• Thanks to guys like Boss Tweed, famous for saying, 'I don't give a damn who does the voting, as long as I do the nominating,' there hasn't been an honest election in the USA since sometime around the War Between the States.

  L. Neil Smith

  War, Usa, Long

  "Libertarians: The Connies Speak Out (Part Two)". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. October 02, 2005.

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