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"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."
"I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low."
"The first myth of management is that it exists."
"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."
"Your own mental attitude is your real boss."
"I've never wanted to be the boss."
"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"
"Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandfather!’ I exclaimed. ‘Planting an almond tree?’ And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: ‘My son, I carry on as if I should never die.’ I replied: ‘And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.’ Which of us was right, boss?"
"If my boss knew how unproductive I am on Fridays, he wouldn't want me here either."
"The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it."
"I know that a Christian should be humble, but against the Pope I am going to be proud and say to him: "You, Pope, I will not have you for my boss, for I am sure that my doctrine is divine."
"In my home, who is my boss? If you ask my wife she'll say certainly not her. She claims that she can't make me do anything and so she's not my boss. I am. I'm pretty sure, maybe."
"Now the wintertime is coming The windows are filled with frost I went to tell everybody But I could not get across Well, I wanna be your lover, baby I don't wanna be your boss Don't say I never warned you When your train gets lost."
"Be loyal to your boss, your company, your co-workers. Someone is always listening."
"I'm a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family."
"So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom."
"The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill."
"We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve."
"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."
"In my career? Me. I'm the boss. I'm the end all and be all. I'm the alpha and omega in that."
