Boss Quotes - Page 32

• You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.

  Jeannette Walls

  Men, Careers, Fortune

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Mean, Assessment, Years

  7 Copy quote

• I was very lucky with 'Soap' and 'Who's the Boss,' which was great fun, and then went on 'Coach' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond.' I've been truly blessed, and the work has all been fun and a joy.

  Katherine Helmond

  Fun, Blessed, Joy

  "DIVA TALK: Chats with Helmond and Rose, Oz's Block Gets Wicked and Q Folk Go Empty-Handed". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 6, 2004.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn't have a command hierarchy. It doesn't have a boss. So, all the decisions are somehow made collectively. The control of the system is in the hands of everyone who is a part of it.

  Steven Johnson

  Hands, Decision, Peers

  15 Copy quote

• I think everyone starts in the mailroom at some point! It's a right of passage. Your boss has to throw something at you and order you around for at least two years.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Thinking, Order, Years

  "Michael B. Jordan, ‘Fruitvale’ Star, Reveals His Early Tap Dancing Roots". Interview with Sasha Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I am traitor, who did I betray? I gave all my information to the American public, to American journalists who are reporting on American issues. If they see that as treason, I think people really need to consider who they think they're working for. The public is supposed to be their boss, not their enemy.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Issues, People

  10 Copy quote

• Great Art is collaborative but not democratic. It’s OK to be the boss

  Jamie Catto

  Art, Democratic, Great Art

  Jamie Catto (2016). “Insanely Gifted: Turn Your Demons into Creative Rocket Fuel”, p.144, Canongate Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whenever the boss has 'fun' activities, there's got to be a parable or a lesson. Employees feel like they're supposed to be taking notes.

  Greg Daniels

  Fun, Lessons, Notes

  4 Copy quote

• A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Fear, Business, Responsibility

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

  Andy Rooney

  People, Needs, Workers

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

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss.

  Deborah Wiles

  Teacher

  Deborah Wiles (2016). “Countdown”, p.166, Scholastic Inc.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• If it weren't for my breast cancer, I wouldn't be a 'Today' host. After I got better, I talked to my boss about working on the show. Six months before, I'd have been terrified to go in there and ask for what I wanted. But after what I'd been through, how could I be scared of being told no?

  Hoda Kotb

  Cancer, Six Months, Today

  6 Copy quote

• Nobody's about saving anymore. No one cares about a rainy day anymore. Nobody saves up enough for even an umbrella for a rainy day. It's sad. It really is a new form of slavery. We used to work to be able to afford material things. Now we work for these things. They're the boss. That house you can't afford, that car that's out of your price range, that cellphone that drains your bank account - that's your boss.

  Chris Rock

  Rainy Day, Car, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• A long time ago, I learned not to go up to the boss and ask what's happening to my character. I haven't done that for 20 years, since I was on 'Days of Our Lives.

  Michael Easton

  Character, Years, Long

  4 Copy quote

• Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Business, Insperational

  981 Copy quote

• So every time you think about your work-life balance issue, remember what your boss is thinking about - and that's winning. Your needs may get heard - and even successfully resolved - but not if the boss's needs aren't met as well.

  Jack Welch

  Winning, Thinking, Issues

  9 Copy quote

• If you're cooking for someone important - whether it's your boss or a date - never try a new recipe and a new ingredient at the same time.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Cooking, Important, Trying

  11 Copy quote

• Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic,
  or the one you love, or your neighbors, or your boss,
  then you must learn to control you...
  the one whose response to the difficulties of life REALLY counts.

  Jim Rohn

  Weather, Neighbor, One You Love

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 11, 2011

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.

  Abraham Maslow

  Fate, Creating, Agency

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.

  Orrin Woodward

  Decision, Leader, Worst

  Twitter post from Jul 05, 2016

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Fighting, Unions, Politician

  Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.147, Ludwig von Mises Institute

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you are the boss it's wise to remember that there are lots of things you don't know and lots of people who hope you won't find out.

  Michael Josephson

  Wise, People, Remember

  11 Copy quote

• In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Responsibility, Revolution, Dictator

  9 Copy quote

• Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Jobs, Demand

  18 Copy quote

• Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.

  Seth Godin

  People, Safe, Feels

  "SETH GODIN: 'Everything That Michael Dell Did, Do the Opposite'". Interview with Max Nisen, www.businessinsider.com. March 6, 2013.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source