Boss Quotes

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

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.

I'm not taking maternity leave from 'Big Brother.' I e-mailed my boss over there this weekend and I said, 'Don't worry. I can still do the show!

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

The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.

The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.

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

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.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

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

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

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

I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.

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

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.

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I'd never been in charge of an organization.

The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.

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

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

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.

When I was a young prosecutor, I got called to testify against my boss. I could have backed down, but I didn't. I stood up to him. And he fired me for it.

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.

We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.

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

My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

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

Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy.

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

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.