Boss Quotes - Page 36

• Now, if your boss is a sadist, then you have a big problem. In that case, fire your boss and get a new job.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Fire, New Job

  "Trump: How to Get Rich". Book by Donald Trump and Meredith McIver, 2004.

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• To help others develop, start with yourself! When the boss acts like a little god and tells everyone else they need to improve, that behavior can be copied at every level of management. Every level then points out how the level below it needs to change. The end result: No one gets much better.

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Helping Others, Levels, Littles

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• A recent management study revealed that 46% of employees leaving a company do so because they feel underappreciated; 61% said their bosses don't place much importance on them as people, and 88% said they do not receive acknowledgement for the work they do.

  Jack Canfield

  People, Leaving, Management

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• What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.

  Hyman Rickover

  Jobs, Attitude, Organization

  United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session”

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• Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Motivation, Organization, Leader

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• If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.

  Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

  Thinking, People, Mexico

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• You can't arrest me. I'm the Cake Boss.

  Buddy Valastro

  Cake

  "Cake Boss' Star Pleads Guilty to DWI: 'One is Too Many'". www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 1, 2014.

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• Tell your boss what you really think about him
  and the truth shall set you free.

  Patrick Murray

  Funny, Thinking, Office

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• When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance.

  Ben Hecht

  Money, Blessing, People

  "A child of the century".

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• On 'Honeybabysweetiedoll' I used a Whammy, a Boss OC-3 octave box, a Sustainer and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler. That's only on the intro, where all those weird noises are happening.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Delay, Lines, Noise

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• I just bought a great gift for my boss - a leaky ant farm.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Ants, Great Gifts

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• You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.

  Robert Pozen

  Needs, Done, Metrics

  "Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours". Book by Robert Pozen, www.businessinsider.com. 2012.

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• 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.

  Whitney Cummings

  Relationship, Thinking, Interesting

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. September 15, 2011.

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• There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.

  Joko Beck

  Vacation, People, Interesting

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• I was kind of a bully, even though I'm tiny, 5' 2". As a child, I'd boss other kids around and dress my little brother up, just putting on shows, singing and dressing up.

  Nicole Beharie

  Brother, Children, Kids

  "Nicole Beharie ‘American Violet’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. April 13, 2009.

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• But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned so much from him.

  David Boies

  Partners, 1960s, Toms

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