The Boss Quotes

You're not the boss of me," she told him breathlessly.
His chuckle sounded strangled. "Pretend I am for a while.
- Cherry Adair

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
- Woody Allen

I know what is going on," said Sir. "I am the Boss! Of course I know!
- Lemony Snicket

I am your dwarf.
I am the enemy within.
I am the boss of your dreams.
See. Your hand shakes.
It is not palsy or booze.
It is your Doppelganger
trying to get out.
Beware...Beware..
- Anne Sexton

The Boss is an honorable man. After the Lord, the most godly person I've ever met."
"You've met God?"
"Certainly. I telephone Him every night.
- Haruki Murakami

Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.
- Jimmy Carl Black

First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.
- Jimmy Carl Black

My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I'm sure I was the bossiest one.
- Connie Britton

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

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

All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.
- Benjamin Franklin

Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [T]he dough takes care of itself. While you cannot speed up the process, you can slow it down at any point by setting the dough in a cooler place then continue where you left off, when you are ready to do so. In other words, you are the boss of that dough.
- Julia Child

My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
- Barbara Corcoran

It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.
- Bryce Courtenay

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.
- Mark Cuban

I've never wanted to be the boss.
- Harrison Ford

He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
- Franz Kafka

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

But what if all the workers we went to said the same thing? What if, everywhere he [the boss] went, there were workers saying, 'We are worth so much,' and 'We will not be treated this way,' and 'You cannot take away our jobs unless there is a just reason for doing so'? What if all workers, everywhere, demanded this treatment?
- Cory Doctorow

I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.
- Gregg Easterbrook

Getting involved with someone was complicated enough, but with the boss's daughter? Probably not a good idea.
- Wendy Ely

Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you're the boss. Or they won't. Who cares? Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.
- Tina Fey

I did work in a bakery for one day. But the boss went off and when he came back I was lying on the floor eating cakes.
- Noel Fielding

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
- Ernst Fischer

[on Bruce Springsteen] I'm the President, but he's The Boss.
- Barack Obama

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

As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.
- Carlos Ghosn

You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well?
It'd go like this: You'd get the boss on the line and say, "Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore." Call in well.
- Tom Robbins

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

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
- Lee Iacocca

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

We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.
- Craig Johnston

I want to be the boss, and have my name embossed on the corner office door.
- Jarod Kintz

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

The trick is remembering that change is as easy as you make it. The trick is remembering that you are the boss of you.
- Dexter S King

They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thin, incessantly: 'Get it done, get it done.' So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more.
- Markus Zusak

To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thing, incessantly: "Get it done, get it done." So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more.
- Markus Zusak

Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll. I'm ready. My toaster will never be the boss of me. Get ready to make me some Pop-Tarts, bitch.
- Chuck Klosterman

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
- Doug Larson

For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it, no wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can't paint in Paris, you'd better give up and marry the boss's daughter.
- Alan Jay Lerner

Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.
- James Levine

My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.
- Jet Li

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

I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play.
- Judith Light

In the event of some sort of gathering, if one of the bossy, over bearing, possessive, fur balls has not flipped his switch and attacked some poor young pup in some misguided attempt to protect his woman's virtue, then the night is not yet over..
- Quinn Loftis

While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.
- Leonard Maltin

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

I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.
- Hayao Miyazaki

If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.
- Sinead Oconnor

I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.
- Adam Oates

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 Obrad

At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
- Ted Rall

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
- Ted Rall

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

I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.
- Henry Rollins

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

I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.
- Gavin Rossdale

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

After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us.
- Rose Schneiderman

Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing.
- Rose Schneiderman

Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.
- Lea Seydoux

She adapted herself to the split-second rhythm of the New Yorker going to and from work. Getting to the office was a nervous ordeal. If she arrived one minute before nine, she was a free person. If she arrived one minute after, she worried because that made her the logical scapegoat of the boss if he happened to be in a bad mood that day.
- Betty Smith

I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.
- James Stockdale

If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.
- Ron Suskind

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.
- Marlo Thomas

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.
- Donald Trump

If people think I'm just the boss's daughter, they're deceived.
- Ivanka Trump

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.
- Scott Walker

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man
- Jeannette Walls

Dirt's a funny thing,' the Boss said. 'Come to think of it, there ain't a thing but dirt on this green God's globe except what's under water, and that's dirt too. It's dirt makes the grass grow. A diamond ain't a thing in the world but a piece of dirt that got awful hot. And God-a-Mighty picked up a handful of dirt and blew on it and made you and me and George Washington and mankind blessed in faculty and apprehension. It all depends on what you do with the dirt. That right?
- Robert Penn Warren

It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to me (to Me who was what Jack Burden, the student of history, had grown up to be) "There is always something."
And I said, "Maybe not on the Judge."
And he said, "Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.
- Robert Penn Warren

Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the boss.
- Bubba Watson

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

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary 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.
- George Edward Woodberry

When you look ito the still, deep water,
you can feel it looking back,
trying to come up with the proper punishment.
Fucking water, who made you the boss?
- Dean Young