Boss Quotes - Page 4

• You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Relationship, Leadership

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• The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

  Casey Stengel

  Success, Sports, Baseball

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• The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay.

  Scott Adams

  Diversity, Want, Like You

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• There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Leadership, Freedom

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• Finding your purpose may be a lifelong pursuit or you may have discovered it when you were 5 years old. There's no absolute timeline for anyone. That's a good reason never to give up, to keep on discovering things every day.

  Donald Trump

  Life, Giving Up, Years

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• Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the boss which must be changed?.

  Lucy Parsons

  Changed

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• The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.

  Bill Kurtis

  Important, Let It Go, Minutes

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• I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

  Talib Kweli

  Teacher, Eye, Thinking

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  You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

  Mike Murdock

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Mike Murdock (2012). “Seeds Of Wisdom On Habits”, p.5, Wisdom International Inc

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• Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

  George E. M. Kelly

  Leadership, Business, Differences

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• A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

  Charles Erwin Wilson

  Men, Thinking, Realizing

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• Just because you are the boss doesn't mean you are the source of all knowledge.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Mean, Building

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• Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Blame, Problem, Enough

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

  Ken Blanchard

  Leadership, Power, Past

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• The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

  Agha Hasan Abedi

  Inspirational, Real, Work

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• Feelings are indicators, not dictators. They can indicate where your heart is in the moment, but that doesn't mean they have the right to dictate your behavior and boss you around. You are more than the sum total of your feelings and perfectly capable of that little gift . . . called self-control.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Heart, Mean, Self

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• A man doesn't have vacation problems: his boss tells him when to take them, and his wife tells him where.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Vacation, Wife

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• I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play.

  Judith Light

  Character, Play, Roles

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• There is only one boss. The customer.

  Sam Walton

  Business, Loyal Customers, Excellence

  "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.

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  There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

  Sam Walton

  Inspirational, Money, Business

  "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.

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• No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.

  Lois Wyse

  Jobs, Work, Real

  Lois Wyse (1984). “The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One”, Fawcett Books

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• Commitment is what your boss needs you to have. Choice is what you need to have.

  Thomas Leonard

  Commitment, Choices, Needs

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• I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.

  Len Goodman

  School, Men, Adults

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• People found it unusual to leave a job where you're the boss.

  David Plotz

  Jobs, People, Unusual

  "The "How Does a Host of Working Work?" Transcript" by Adam Davidson, David Plotz, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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