Boss quotes
497 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I build myself up with confidence with aggression, and confidence to control the game. If you're the bowler and you've got the ball in your hand you're controlling the game, so you've got to make sure the batsmen knows who's boss."
"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."
"I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work."
"The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either."
"My happiness isn't connected to my husband's or my boss's or my children's behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being."
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"In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss."
"They don't want you to wear the Saint Lauren fur, they don't want you to break App Store, they don't want you to be the biggest boss in the game. So what we go'n do is we go'n win more."
"Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker."
"I want young people to know there is no age limit to when they can start their own business or when they can become a boss."
"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."
"The boss is not paying you. They just keep the money for you only. New customers who actually paid"
"It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most."
"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."
"I am not bossy, I am the boss."
"When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you're working."
"The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives."
"Your husband is the boss - and don't forget it."
"As for ISIS, we know where they come from. We know who has used them in the past. We know their sectarianism leads to killings. Here the Turkish state, like its NATO bosses, has helped to create a monster that it now claims to oppose."
"I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses."
"...while everyone's focusing on keeping the boss happy, who's focusing on keeping the customer happy?"
"There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba"
"I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me."
"Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic, or the one you love, or your neighbors, or your boss, then you must learn to control you... the one whose response to the difficulties of life REALLY counts."
"I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn't get banks to fund me; I couldn't recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn't want to deal with women."
"Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so."
