Boss Quotes

If I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I will go in. I like real estate because I am the boss.

When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.

It turns out I'm not very good at working with a traditional boss.

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.

It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.

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

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.

OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.

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.

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.

I've never wanted to be the boss.

As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.

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

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

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

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.

Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.

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

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.

I think everyone starts in the mailroom at some point! It's a right of passage. Your boss has to throw something at you and order you around for at least two years.

That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't.

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.

Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.

You have got to boss scrums. The players need to know what you want them to adhere to. Then it is up to them to decide whether they are adhering to that or not.

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

To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.

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

I love someone who tries to boss me around.

I don't have a boss. Well, I have a boss: the public. If the public doesn't buy my books, I would be out of a job.

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

Obama is talking to voters as though he is their boss, or their principal, or their father. He is not any of those things. He is their employee. And employers don't like it when their employees yell at them - even if their employees have it right.

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

During my seven-year contract with RKO, there were seven different studio presidents, from David O. Selznick to Charles W. Koerner. You literally had to check the name on the door so as not to call the new boss by the former boss's name.

Dick Wolf was my first boss after coming out of Sarah Lawrence.

I'm very determined, honest, open and definitely very energetic. I expect a lot as a boss and I'm very demanding, but I ask that of myself too.

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.

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

If people think I'm just the boss's daughter, they're deceived.

What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.