Boss Quotes - Page 2

• Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

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• The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says 'I'; The leader says 'We'.

  Harry Gordon Selfridge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leader

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• The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Leadership, Business

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.46, New Directions Publishing

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• The boss says 'Go'; the leader says 'Let's go!'

  Harry Gordon Selfridge

  Leader, Boss And Leader

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• Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Motivational, Leadership, Business

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  The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Hands, People

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.117, Lexington Books

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

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Way, Owners, Colleagues

  Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears (2002). “Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness”, p.73, Paulist Press

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

  Alanis Morissette

  Inspirational, Leadership, Jobs

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• Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "Donald Trump’s Concession Speech" by Noam Bramson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 02, 2016.

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• A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Heaven, Earth, Excuse

  "God and the State". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1882.

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• Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him.

  Alex Lifeson

  Done, Projects, Solo

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

  Ruby Dee

  Mind, Scratches, Shuffling

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• No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Work, Men

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• The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says Lets GO!

  Harry Gordon Selfridge

  Leadership, Letting Go, People

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• In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

  Woody Allen

  Marriage, Funny Love, Best Love

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• When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Party, Government

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".

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

  Gabriel Heatter

  Horse, Work, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Gabriel Heatter

  Men, Hands, Realization

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.

  Leo Burnett

  Business, Trying, Want

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.100, Bantam

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• Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Business, Humorous

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

  Robert Frost

  Lonely, Men, Female

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

  Frank Robinson

  Sports, Used, Managers

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

  Evan Dando

  Labels, Records, Owners

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• The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

  Donald Trump

  Firsts, Type, Owners

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