Boss Day Quotes

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

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Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?
- Homer J Simpson

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

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Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
- Donald Rumsfeld

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Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
- Dr. Lawrence Peter

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Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
- Kin Hubbard

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The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind.
- Gen. Joe Stillwell

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If a trainstation is where the train stops, what’s a workstation?
- Anonymous

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The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
- Elting E. Morison

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There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
- Peter Drucker

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Most people like hard work. Particularly when they are paying for it.
- Franklin P. Jones

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To make a long story short, there’s nothing like having a boss walk in.
- Doris Lilly

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

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I’ve been promoted to middle management. I never thought I’d sink so low.
- Tim Gould

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One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.
- Dennis A. Peer

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I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That’s not me.
- John Gotti

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The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
- Anonymous

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I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.
- Albert A. Grant

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The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, Go! -a leader says, Let’s go! .
- E. M. Kelly

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No man is the boss of his own house, but he can make up for it, he thinks, by making a dog play dead.
- W. C. Fields

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If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
- Bill Gates

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Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don’t.
- Peter Drucker

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Asking ‘who ought to be the boss’ is like asking ‘who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?’ Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
- Henry Ford

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The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds.
- Casey Stengel

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Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee’s compliance than on threats or sanctions.
- Fernanda Bartolme

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The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
- Robert Frost

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
- Peter Drucker

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.
- Napoleon Hill

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I’ve always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
- Lee Iacocca

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A good manager is a man who isn’t worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him.
- H. S. M. Burns

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The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate you away from those who are still undecided.
- Casey Stengal

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The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
- Robert Heller

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Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.
- Howard Aiken

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If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
- Cannon’s Law

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and he boss drives.
- Theodore Roosevelt