Boss Quotes - Page 29

• I feel incredibly lucky at this moment in my career to get paid to do basically exactly what I always wanted to do. I appreciate that in general. But you know, like any job, 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.

  Nick Kroll

  Jobs, Careers, People

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 29, 2009.

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• I am pretty tough as a boss.

  Vijay Mallya

  Tough, I Am Pretty

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• 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.

  Dave Grohl

  Yelling, Organization, Furniture

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• Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.

  Victoria Gotti

  Father, Needs, Want

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• ...while everyone's focusing on keeping the boss happy, who's focusing on keeping the customer happy?

  James Hunter

  Challenges, Customers

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.61, Crown Business

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

  Kid Cudi

  Fighting, Certain, Power Trip

  "All The Right Moves". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. June, 2015.

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• You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.

  Charles Kennedy

  Jobs, People, Decision

  "Kennedy defends his style" by Oliver King, Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• Those public employee union bosses think they already control the legislators, they already control everyone up there in Sacramento, and now, because they have the money, they want to control all of you, .. They want to raise your taxes. It's all going in that direction -- raising your taxes. But I'm here as your warrior, remember that. I want to protect you.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Warrior, Thinking, Unions

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• When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase.

  Edward Ruscha

  Flower, Utterance, Vases

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• 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.

  Brett Lee

  Hands, Games, Balls

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• Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.

  Kenny Anderson

  Congratulations, Winning, Offering

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• I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun... I continue to be an artist... for the freedom that an art career can bring. I don't need an alarm clock and I am my own boss.

  Mark Kostabi

  Art, Fun, Kids

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• The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Outstanding Leaders, Best Leader

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• Boss: I just heard that light travels faster than sound. I'm wondering if I should shout when I speak, just so my lips appear to sync-up with my words.

  Scott Adams

  Knowledge, Science, Light

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• A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.

  Robert Townsend

  Fighting, Thinking, People

  Robert Townsend (1988). “Further up the organization”, HarperCollins

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• I saw a sign at a gas station. It said 'help wanted'. There was another sign below it that said 'self service'. So I hired myself. Then I made myself the boss. I gave myself a raise. I paid myself. Then I quit.

  Steven Wright

  Work, Opportunity, Self

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• To follow your life's guidance, you may have to reassign some seemingly important things to 'unimportant.' If you believe that pleasing your horrible boss or having a spotless house is a higher priority than playing with your children or sleeping off the flu, be prepared for a long and strenuous battle against destiny. Also, be prepared to lose.

  Martha Beck

  Children, Believe, Sleep

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

  Hugh Grant

  Quality, Slave, Owners

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• I pledged to work for righteousness. God's given me inspiration. God's the boss, he tell me what to do.

  Bob Marley

  Inspiration, Given, Righteousness

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• To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Jobs, Husband, Believe

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• Walt had a seat-of-the-pants approach on what he wanted musically. We kind of 'read' the boss and had a very high batting average, but there were occasions when he felt we had just written the wrong piece for the situation he wanted. We invariably listened to what he wanted - he was very descriptive in what he wanted and we could read him. We'd go back to the drawing board and work out what he wanted. He was a great inspiration, but a tough taskmaster.

  Richard Sherman

  Inspiration, Average, Drawing

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I see how people boss other actors around to try to get a scene favorable to them. I absolutely just never engage in doing that. If someone's going to do it to me, I just let them have it.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  People, Trying, Actors

  "It's more about the work than the money for Experimenter star Peter Sarsgaard". Interview with Pete Croatto, film.avclub.com. October 15, 2015.

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• Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.

  Alan Alda

  Communication, Helping, Employee

  Interview with Claudia Gryvatz Copquin, www.saturdayeveningpost.com. May/June 2013.

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• Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.

  Stephen Hawking

  Looks, Miles, Inspirational Office

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• People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.

  Lily Allen

  Successful, Men, People

  "Vintage festival promises more glamour than Glastonbury" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2010.

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