Boss Quotes - Page 11

The audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said in the last 20 years, the real boss is the audience.

My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work.

Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.

The Wolverine was fired from his job as a cashier in a newsagents after just six weeks because his boss said, "he talks too much to customers". He can talk to me all day.

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

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

The boss says 'I'; the leader, 'we'.

The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status.

A wedding is the formality a man has to go through before going to work for a new boss.

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.

The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?

The boss isn't always right, but he is the boss.

People found it unusual to leave a job where you're the boss.

When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave slide rules here." If I didn't do that, I'd find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss, you can't do it."

My men and I have decided that our boss, the president of the United States, is as tough as woodpecker lips.

The last 16 years of my daddys life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.

Be loyal to your boss, your company, your co-workers. Someone is always listening.

As this VP discovered, being a boss is much like being a high-status primate in any group: the creatures beneath you in the pecking order watch every move you make – and so they know a lot more about you than you know about them.

Now the wintertime is coming The windows are filled with frost I went to tell everybody But I could not get across Well, I wanna be your lover, baby I don't wanna be your boss Don't say I never warned you When your train gets lost.

The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.

I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.

Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. Stop trying to change reality. That's crazy! Stop trying to change the other person. We spend all our time and energy trying to change external circumstances, trying to change our spouses, our bosses, our friends, our enemies, and everybody else. We don't have to change anything. Negative feelings are in you.

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.

Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as "employee satisfaction results" - might improve.

You should ask for a performance evaluation. Ask your boss, where do I stand? I need to know what I can do better and what I'm doing well.