Boss Quotes

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.

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.

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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.

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

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

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.

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.

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.

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.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.