Boss Quotes - Page 9

• You can give me detention. Oh, wait, that's right...you aren't the boss of me. So I guess you can just bite me. -Dean

  Jeff Mariotte

  Giving, Waiting, Dean

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• If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing.

  Franz Kafka

  Fall, Thinking, Talking

  Franz Kafka, General Press (2016). “Metamorphosis”, p.8, GENERAL PRESS

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• You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

  Steven Moffat

  Waste, Wasting Time, Should

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• The Republican Party is saying that the president of the United States has bosses, that the union bosses this president around - the unions boss him around. Does that sound to you like they are consciously or subconsciously deliver the racist message that, of course - of course, a black man can't be the real boss?

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Real, Stupid, Party

  "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.nbcnews.com. February 28, 2011.

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• I like my father being the boss in my life

  Shreya Ghoshal

  Father

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• In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

  Edward Abbey

  Funny, Dog, Pet

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• One moment it was there, another moment it is gone. One moment we are here, and another moment we have gone. And for this simple moment, how much fuss we make! How much violence, ambition, struggle, conflict, anger, hatred, just for this small moment! Just waiting for the train in a waiting room on a station, and creating so much fuss: fighting, hurting each other, trying to possess, trying to boss, trying to dominate - all that politics. And then the train comes and you are gone forever.

  Rajneesh

  Hurt, Struggle, Ambition

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• The only thing stopping you is fear, and the only thing that will get you past it is courage. What you do with your life isn't up to your parents, your boss, or your spouse. It's up to you and you alone.

  Steve Pavlina

  Past, Thought Provoking, Parent

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• If you don't make a conscious choice... someone else will decide for you. It may be your boss, a family member, an advertiser, a collective social influence, or someone or something else, but it won't be something of your deliberate choosing.

  Steve Pavlina

  Thought Provoking, Choices, May

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• Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing politics and soft-soaping their bosses. Boards don't like tough, abrasive guys.

  Carl Icahn

  Intelligent, Creative, Guy

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• My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.

  Jenna Bush

  Children, Husband, Dad

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• As the 'Batman' TV series was returning to ABC for its second season in 1967, the TV bosses decided to take Catwoman into another direction... lucky for me.

  Eartha Kitt

  Lucky, Tvs, Catwoman

  "The Many Faces of Catwoman". Documentary, January 18, 2005.

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• Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their "personal style" was their "brand." ("It" starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team. Sorry to be politically insensitive, but who would give a hoot about Tibet if it weren't for the look and style of the Dalai Lama?) Boss at any level: You're either on the "it" boat-or not.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Sorry, Team

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• Women are the more important members of relationships. Women are the survivors, the nurturers and the bosses, despite men pretending it's a male dominated society.

  Ray Martin

  Women, Important, Males

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• A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.

  Gloria Steinem

  Experts, Persons

  Tufts University Commencement Speech, gos.sbc.edu. May 17, 1987.

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• I wish I were strong enough to ignore what others say, but experience tells me I often can't. Allowing myself to feel upset, even really upset, and then move on - that's something I can do.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Strong, Moving, Often Can

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.59, Knopf

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• You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little. I need my bosses' goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more.

  Lloyd Blankfein

  Mean, People, Needs

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• I want you to take a moment here and write down all the problems that are plaguing you at this moment, from big to small. Now ask yourself what you contributed in creating your current situation. Did the professor fail you because you never went to class? Did your boss yell at you because you were on YouTube instead of working?

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Writing, Class

  Jillian Michaels (2011). “Unlimited: A Three-Step Plan for Achieving Your Dreams”, p.84, Harmony

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• But here's the thing about being honest: All the liars HATE you for it, and most of the people in the world are liars. They lie to their bosses, they lie to their families, they lie to themselves, they lie so much they don't even know they're lying anymore. If you have the courage to be honest even a little bit all those people will hate you for it, because their lie is reflected in your honesty. Oscar Wilde wasn't kidding when he said, "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

  Tucker Max

  Honesty, Lying, Hate

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• On an otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American Dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window.

  Larry Correia

  Dream, Tuesday, Stories

  Larry Correia (2015). “Monster Hunter International, Second Edition”, p.6, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I'm just as famous as my mentor... but that's still the boss don't get sent for

  Drake

  Bad Ass, Mentor, Stills

  Song: Tuscan Leather, 2013

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• I am no big shot. I am not anybody's boss. I want to be everybody's servant.

  Jimmy Carter

  Want, Bigs, Shots

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• The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer on the picket line, the stronger the commitment. A lot of workers think they make their commitment by walking off the job when nobody sees them. But you get a guy to walk off the field when his boss is watching and, in front of the other guys, throw down his tools and march right to the picket line, that is the guy who makes our strike. The picket line is a beautiful thing because it makes a man more human.

  Cesar Chavez

  Beautiful, Jobs, Commitment

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• I had no intention of becoming a comedian. I just wanted to make people happy. I tried everything-I shucked oysters, I painted houses, I sold vacuum cleaners. But there was always a voice saying, You should be doing something different. And it was usually my boss and I was being fired.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Inspirational, Oysters, Voice

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• You've got to avoid overcoaching. You've got to avoid talking too much. You've got to avoid showing players that you're the boss every time. You don't have to do that. They know you're in charge.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Player, Talking

  "Red Auerbach: What I've Learned" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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