Boss Quotations | Page 4

If I went and told my boss to buy something with over a 50 P/E, he'd kill me, ... Both companies are extraordinarily successful and have tons and tons of growth but the problem is everybody else realizes it.

I'm not the boss. The boss can decide to do whatever he wants. I just want to play.

I had a boss who told me that if I really wanted to reach my potential there I had to get rid of my excess baggage, and he meant my husband and kids. So it wasn't clean sailing.

If you feel you aren't getting much recognition for your contribution, think of your boss, because your boss gets less -- much less.

If you're living in a small business environment, you've got, say, five or eight people in an office or a workshop, and one of them is a pain in the neck and is making life difficult for everybody else, it's workers in many cases more than the boss that would like to see the back of him, ... That's a point that's overlooked by some of our union critics.

In return for the privilege of influencing issues you care about, in return for the rush of power and reflected glory, you defend the boss - fiercely, unapologetically, giving no ground.

I remember after he left walking up the steps and grabbing the door and my boss was coming behind me. I must have had a big smile because in my mind I wanted to say, 'You didn't tell me he was that good looking.' Of course, you have a male boss and you're not going to say that because you want to be professional.

I haven't had a chance to work closely with him enough to evaluate him. When you got hired, I'm sure your boss didn't do a one-year evaluation after one month.

If you think you'll curry favor, you are mistaken. The boss now knows what kind of character you have.

If you simply have too much work to handle, ask the boss for help.

It helps a lot if people know exactly who their boss is.

Being a good boss is important in any organization, but it's particularly important for small business. With smaller businesses, you really have the opportunity to set the tone for the entire company.

But I'd be surprised if it was that easy against the Solomons and the boss (coach Guus Hiddink) is not here yet. He may want to have the full squad together for a longer period.

I've never wanted to be the boss.

Whenever the boss has 'fun' activities, there's got to be a parable or a lesson. Employees feel like they're supposed to be taking notes.

A recent management study revealed that 46% of employees leaving a company do so because they feel underappreciated; 61% said their bosses don't place much importance on them as people, and 88% said they do not receive acknowledgement for the work they do.

Bill Paley is not only the greatest boss I ever had, but he's the most brilliant, honest and warm human being I've ever met. And I'll say that to his face - even if it costs me my job.

If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.

If I hadn't had mentors, I wouldn't be here today. I'm a product of great mentoring, great coaching... Coaches or mentors are very important. They could be anyone-your husband, other family members, or your boss.

Hugo Boss has managed to grow very strongly despite the difficult market environment.

He's an excellent reflection of his boss ? smart, action-oriented, tough, loyal,

Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.

The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status.

He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.

You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You are nobody's boss and nobody is your boss.

I haven't really had too many bosses. Any bad boss I had probably was because I was a bad employee.

A wedding is the formality a man has to go through before going to work for a new boss.

He's my neophyte Downworlder to mock and boss around, not yours.

Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone; it bosses the enzymes; directs the pineal gland; plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to film is more film.

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

Bob arum is Manny Pacquiao's boss, Floyd Mayweather is his own boss.

Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from.

The audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said the real boss is the audience.

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

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.

I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss.

I am not sure any of the material in Leadership BS would be helpful for small companies and certainly not their owners. Of course, even owners have bosses and need to worry about keeping their jobs - so Power might be more appropriate.

The people are angry. It's running out of control. And unfortunately, there are a group of police that have become nothing more than enforcers for the political and financial crime bosses.

The Wolverine was fired from his job as a cashier in a newsagents after just six weeks because his boss said, "he talks too much to customers". He can talk to me all day.

I don't suppose I'll ever get over it. I mean, the boss is gone. But he wouldn't want anybody hanging any out, any black crepe for him.

How much does your boss pay you everyday?

I'd love to drive a Lamborghini, but I think it's hard when the pedals are way down in there, and you sit real low, but I've come up with some pedal extensions. I actually sit in a kids' car seat that my old boss put this beautiful leather wrap around, and it looks just like a Corvette seat that sits on top of my leather Corvette seat.

(He) asked his boss to recommend a place to take his wife. But he takes his girlfriend. He doesn't think his boss might go there with his (own) wife on Valentine's Day?

Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.

A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.

He [Donald Trump] is a tough boss. I've known him for decades. He hasn't changed very much. He's a driven person, highly intelligent, and he's very motivated, very charismatic, and he is tough as nails in the sense there's no slack there. You can't put anything over on Donald. Donald can see right through someone trying to dissemble or spin stuff.

The only relaxed boss is Big Ron. He had me drinking pink champagne - before the match.

Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don’t get him on the subject of his boss. According to Mr. Crouch…as I was saying to Mr. Crouch… Mr. Crouch is of the opinion… Mr. Crouch was telling me… They’ll be announcing their engagement any day now.

At any given moment, there is always a line representing what your boss will believe. If you step over it, you will not get your budget. Go as close to that line as you can.

Having your own show, where you're not in trouble all the time, because you're kind of the boss, is a wonderful experience. If I made mistakes everyone was very nice to me.

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

Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

I've got an odd, negative bond with C. Montgomery Burns. He reminds a lot of people of bosses they've worked for. He certainly reminds me of someone I'm working for

There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?" "Evil's afoot." "Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.

Why do I regret Chelsea? I'm the boss of the richest club in the world. I have not had much time to adjust myself, but I've found a great restaurant! That is the first thing I did when I arrived!

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

Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.'

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of itself. [...] While you cannot speed up the process, you can slow it down at any point by setting the dough in a cooler place [...] then continue where you left off, when you are ready to do so. In other words, you are the boss of that dough.

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.

I just bought a great gift for my boss - a leaky ant farm.

Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.

If you're cooking for someone important - whether it's your boss or a date - never try a new recipe and a new ingredient at the same time.

I don't like to power trip, but when you're a boss you have to fight for certain things.

There's nothing like confidence. Your bosses will appreciate it.

I'm with the boss I'm Ms Ross

Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle. So, in that sense, novels are easier because you don't have to answer to anyone. And then, you go into something like film and there are more cooks in the kitchen, so to speak.

I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.

I'm just 'bout that action boss.

The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine.

A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.

And when things start to go wrong, a good boss doesn't just fire everybody and start over.

Tell your boss what you really think about him and the truth shall set you free.

I never was taught how to go into a meeting and talk about a tour and how to plan a show, but seeing that side of things [about] someone who wants to be a Unicorn but has to now be a boss and navigate this is a really powerful and interesting story.

A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.

If you are the boss it's wise to remember that there are lots of things you don't know and lots of people who hope you won't find out.

I'm showing the boss what I can do. I was bought as a striker and I always believe I am a striker.

Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

I'm not used to having a boss. I'm the boss. I don't need the money. I'm filthy f... rich!

I've really been very focused on Jessica Jones. Our series was well on its way to being created by the time we even saw scripts from Daredevil, and Luke Cage didn't even have a showrunner hired then. Jeph Loeb [Marvel TV boss] is the master of the connective tissue, but each series exists in its own world.

I don't have a boss . . . nobody tells me what to do.

The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.

Every day when I get home from work, I feel so frustrated, my boss is a jerk.

I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss's head.

It's very hard to be perceived as a boss, and behaving like a boss or wanting to be treated like one.

Hey, boss? (Vik) Not now, Vik. (Syn) Dude, listen to the metallic life form. (Vik)

I saw my whole life flash before my eyes, boss. It was horrific. I haven’t done anything to regret yet and it’s been way too brief. I at least want a license before I check out, you know?

Speak what I want, I don't care what y'all feel. 'Cause I'm my own master, my Pop told me be your own boss. Keep integrity at every cost,

The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.

Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any 'abuse' came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position,

The whole thing of working in all these different mediums, it's just so that I can always be playing hooky from one of them. I can always be rebelling against my boss. Like, I'm supposed to be writing this book, but - heh heh heh - I'm writing a movie, secretly. I'm procrastinating, and in my off-hours I'm working on this movie that I'm not allowed to do, because I'm supposed to be writing a book!

I'm always just trying to get the work done so that I can be free - like, with the sense that, like, the real me has no interest in this? I just gotta do it for my boss. But the catch is that I'm never free, I never finish the work, so I don't know who this freewheeling employee with extracurricular interests is.

You can't just boss bacteria around like that," said the younger Mrs. Hempstock. "They don't like it." "Stuff and silliness," said the old lady. "You leave wigglers alone and they'll be carrying on like anything. Show them who's boss and they can't do enough for you. You've tasted my cheese..

Divine love is the sublime boss of the universe.

I got to sing with the Boss, Sting, Pink and John Legend and all of those people. It felt like the pinnacle, and then I got the call. I cried, actually and I called my dad, it was really cool.

A job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with.

You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper, forgive your boss's temper, tolerate your spouse's moodiness, you display traces of saintliness.

One of the first things every press secretary assures you is, the boss has a wonderful sense of humor, because not to have a sense of humor is considered flagrantly un-American.

Now the skies could fall Not even if my boss should call The world it seems so very small 'Cause nothing even matters at all