Quotes on Boss

Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

Author: John Abizaid

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Author: Woody Allen

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.

Author: John Ashcroft

Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.

Author: Cecilia Bartoli

I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.

Author: Leo Burnett

It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.

Author: Mary Cheney

Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.

Author: Simon Cowell

It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.

Author: George Cukor

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.

Author: Jim Dale

OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.

Author: Ruby Dee

I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.

Author: Gregg Easterbrook

We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.

Author: Bernie Ebbers

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

Author: Alfred Eisenstaedt

He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.

Author: William Feather

I've never wanted to be the boss.

Author: Harrison Ford

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Author: Bill Gates

As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.

Author: Carlos Ghosn

We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father.

Author: Frank Gifford

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.

Author: John Gotti

Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.

Author: Robert Greenleaf

Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.

Author: Karen Hughes

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Author: Lee Iacocca

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Author: Lee Iacocca

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

Author: Doug Larson

Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.

Author: James Levine

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

Author: Judith Light

To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.

Author: Doris Lilly

My boss told me to get my butt in gear. I told him I was shiftless.

Author: Jay London

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.

Author: Leonard Maltin

If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful.

Author: Bobby McFerrin

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

Author: Alanis Morissette

Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.

Author: James Murray

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

Author: Ted Rall

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

Author: Frank Robinson

Dick Wolf was my first boss after coming out of Sarah Lawrence.

Author: Elisabeth Rohm

I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.

Author: Henry Rollins

I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.

Author: Gavin Rossdale

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

Author: Donald Rumsfeld

Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.

Author: Bob Schieffer

I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.

Author: James Stockdale

I want to have a bunch of kids so I can boss them around.

Author: Jeremy Sumpter

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Author: Donald Trump

I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.

Author: Donald Westlake

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

Author: Alfred Whitehead

Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.

Author: Earl Wilson

The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children.

Author: Teresa Wright