Boss Quotes

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.

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.

When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.

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

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

Nobody in show business can possibly get away with making fun of their boss.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

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.

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

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.

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.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

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.

If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.

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

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

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

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

It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way.

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

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

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.

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

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

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

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

Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.

Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the boss.