Boss Quotes - Page 29

• Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.

  Stephen Hawking

  Looks, Miles, Inspirational Office

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• The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.

  Mona Simpson

  Mother, Men, Ice Cream

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• Whether you're moving to a new company or a new department within your current organization, I believe you'll end up miles ahead if you shop for a boss, not a position. You may secure the greatest job in the world, but a miserable boss will turn gold into ashes. ... In many ways, your boss may be more important than the job.

  Pat Heim

  Jobs, Work, Believe

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• although the typist has disappeared, her work has not: now you do it yourself. ... Since most companies have reduced the managerial ranks, there are fewer and fewer bosses, so you become a manger, his boss, and his secretary all rolled into one.

  Corinne Maier

  Business, Work, Do It Yourself

  Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.57, Vintage

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• I was working in customer service and had a verbally abusive boss. One day, I decided to quit and pursue my acting passion with everything I had. One week after quitting, I booked One Life to Live.

  Tika Sumpter

  Passion, One Day, Acting

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• Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.

  Quincy Jones

  Blue

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• I love someone who tries to boss me around.

  Kellan Lutz

  Trying, Love Someone

  Seventeen Interview, Slide 7, www.seventeen.com. October 16, 2009.

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• If my boss knew how unproductive I am on Fridays, he wouldn't want me here either.

  James Johnson

  Friday, Want, Ifs

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• People who try to boss themselves always want (however kindly) to boss other people. They always think they know best and are so stern and resolute about it they are not very open to new and better ideas.

  Brenda Ueland

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Glasses, Years, Office

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• Creative people like to think in unconventional ways, dislike rules, are easily bored, are independent, like to experiment, and enjoy being their own bosses. Basically the same traits found in most criminals and sociopaths

  Duncan Long

  Independent, Thinking, People

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• Some bosses believe they can't afford to employ someone legitimately - so they employ them illegally.

  Ross Kemp

  Believe

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• Every boss started as a worker.

  Rick Ross

  Life, Workers

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• Before negotiating a raise, start collecting a file of evidence showing how you've impacted the bottom line. ... Don't believe there's no money in the budget. Don't assume your boss knows how great you've been doing. Don't threaten to leave -- you may be given the opportunity.

  Pat Heim

  Believe, Opportunity, Lines

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• Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their individual health decisions and denying their right to reproductive care. Bosses belong in the boardroom, not in the bedroom.

  Dina Titus

  Religious, Decision, Female

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• The people are angry. It's running out of control. And unfortunately, there are a group of police that have become nothing more than enforcers for the political and financial crime bosses.

  Gerald Celente

  Running, People, Political

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• Be nice to nerds, they'll probably be your boss one day.

  Bill Gates

  Nice, Nerd, One Day

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• I have always had the deepest respect for Bill Nicholson as a person and as a manager. The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.

  Bill Shankly

  Determination, Character, White

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• Show business has never been my everything. It's a means; it's not the end. It's a means to the end. I want and have always wanted freedom. That was always my goal, to not have a boss, to not have anybody tell me what to do. Luckily, as an actor, I got that.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Mean, Goal, Actors

  "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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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.

  Tony Krantz

  Responsibility, Reality, Fire

  Source: movieweb.com

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• It was a pleasure to have somebody else be the boss. It wouldn't have been nearly as much fun any other way. He's been around and made a lot of movies and he's a great straightforward person to work for. And it was a pleasure to see other people to pick up characters that you've sketched out loosely on paper and make them into something fascinating.

  Garrison Keillor

  Fun, Character, People

  "Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin Talk A Prairie Home Companion". movieweb.com. June 09, 2006.

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• Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city, your state and federal authorities, and your wife and children.

  Sam Levenson

  Children, Mean, Doctors

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• I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I want! Or I can be pretty and pretend to think I'm a hag out of fake modesty-I can do that if I want, too. Because you, Livingston, are not the boss of me and what kind of girl I become.

  E. Lockhart

  Girl, Insecure, Thinking

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.55, Hot Key Books

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• The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Leader, Groups

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.66, Kappa Delta Pi

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• I'm a Joseph Abboud fan. I'm a Hugo Boss fan. I'm a Brooks Brothers fan. As far as suits go, those are my go-tos.

  Rich Sommer

  Brother, Fans, Suits

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