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Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership. -- Dave Ramsey
Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually. -- Ian McShane
Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems. -- Margaret Heffernan
When I want to talk to someone from Golden Boy, I make sure Richard calls me. Bosses talk to bosses. -- Adrien Broner
You know what I hate about working? Bosses...The very idea that ANYONE could be my boss, well...I think you see the conflict. -- Bill Hicks
Horrible Bosses' is just blatant, outright fun. I've read some of what the critics have said, and it's incredible how mean critics can be about comedies... It's so ridiculous. -- Chris Pine
Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their individual health decisions and denying their right to reproductive care. Bosses belong in the boardroom, not in the bedroom. -- Dina Titus
Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: "I know what Anne [or John] is trying to do. -- Peter Drucker
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. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them. -- Charles Edison
'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason. -- Stefanie Powers
No man goes before his time / unless the boss leaves early -- Groucho Marx
Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat -- Napoleon Hill
Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties -- Doug Larson
I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders. -- Richard J. Daley
Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties -- Doug Larson
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. -- Andy Rooney
Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new. -- Judd Rose
My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer. -- Scott Walker
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
All company bosses want a policy on corporate social responsibility. The positive effect is hard to quantify, but the negative consequences of a disaster are enormous. -- Noreena Hertz
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else -- Sam Walton
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
Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.' -- Mindy Kaling
A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could -- Charles Erwin Wilson
People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways. -- Vaclav Klaus
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
Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress. -- Margaret Heffernan
A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting -- Russell H. Ewing
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
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
I think great bosses hire great people. 'A' people hire 'A' people, but 'B' people hire 'C' people; they're worried they might be shown up... they're concerned that that person might make them look bad. -- John Stumpf
Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable. -- Seth Godin
If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses. -- John C. Maxwell
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
We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an external push to make us have a good time. In both cases, our future self will appreciate the help. -- Virginia Postrel
Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain. -- Peter Mullan
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
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. -- Barbara Corcoran
What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse. -- Tom Hodgkinson
I've got corporate executives, my bosses... this is true... who will text message me... and say, 'Hey a, heard you had chemotherapy today, want me to stop by and pick you up something to eat and bring it to you?' Whose boss does that? My bosses do that. -- Stuart Scott
In my real life, both my bosses are gay. On the 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' Andy Cohen is gay, everybody at Bravo is gay - we call them the gay mafia. Over at 'Glee' and 'The New Normal,' my boss Ryan Murphy is gay. On the show, my boss, played by Andrew Reynolds, is gay in real life. I'm surrounded by all my gay bosses. -- NeNe Leakes
Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason. -- Stefanie Powers
There's nothing like confidence. Your bosses will appreciate it. -- Mary Carillo
In a world of bosses, you are your own master -- John Grogan
No man bosses me around, and no man ever will. -- Cybill Shepherd
Any idiot can point out a problem. So, bosses do. -- Gerry Geek
When I write, I don't think about the reader. I hate bosses -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers. -- Ludwig von Mises
The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe. -- Ted Rall
The worst thing for worker's is their bosses business going out of business. -- Sadiq Khan
Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school. -- Edward Conlon
Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots. -- Jeremy Paxman
'Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say' -- Seth Godin
I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses. -- Scott Walker
Some bosses believe they can't afford to employ someone legitimately - so they employ them illegally. -- Ross Kemp
My work is a love for me; I'd do it for free, but don't tell my bosses. -- Chick Hearn
There are two types of silly bosses: one is the too kind boss and another, the evil boss -- Managers Essentials
Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living. -- Ludwig von Mises
You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. There is no 'bosses.' -- Louis C. K.
When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you. -- Gene Perret
I'm single, I'm enjoying life. Being a boss. Like all true bosses, one day you gotta give it up. -- Rick Ross
I haven't really had too many bosses. Any bad boss I had probably was because I was a bad employee. -- Jason Sudeikis
The bosses can't read your mind, so I think women should tell them what they want out of their careers. -- Ainsley Earhardt
Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win. -- Kenny Anderson
When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss. -- Jim Brown
I always thought that being at Time and tweaking your bosses and exploiting your expense account was just fun. Just joyous. -- Joel Stein
We can't rely on others to be our teachers anymorethe future belongs to individuals who decide to become great bosses (and teachers). -- Seth
I had several different bosses during the early years of 'Dilbert.' They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else. -- Scott Adams
Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it. -- Alan Alda
For centuries kings, priests, feudal lords, industrial bosses and parents have insisted that obedience is a virtue and that disobedience is a vice. -- Erich Fromm
Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members. -- Peter Brimelow
What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans. -- Ted Cruz
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? -- Donny Deutsch
The fact is that, under a capitalistic system, the ultimate bosses are the consumers. The sovereign is not the state, it is the people. -- Ludwig von Mises
Given the consumer-pleasing politics of today's universities, I have, in effect, seventy new bosses each semester; they're sitting at the desk in front of me. -- Maureen Corrigan
Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain in my book. -- James Altucher
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
Vice presidents are supposed to be eternally loyal, which is why it is so difficult for some to figure out how to succeed their bosses. -- Susan Estrich
Public employees contribute real value for the benefit of all citizens. Public-union bosses collect real money from all taxpayers for the benefit of a few. -- Mark McKinnon
Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and people weren't well treated. -- Mitch Kapor
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
Once the country was settled and built, the bosses changed the order from a stack of educated workers to a barrel of minimum wage lottery dreamers. -- Lenny Bruce
I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring. -- Elena Ferrante
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. -- Jack Welch
Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country. -- Helen Suzman
Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men; the least government is the best government. -- Ralph Moody
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
You gotta let the fans shine their glory the way they want. It's like I have a million bosses and my job is to make them happy. -- Rakim
Assume everything you put on the Internet can and will be seen not only by the person you're talking about, but your future romantic partners and bosses, too. -- Mara Wilson
It does not matter whether I am in Hong Kong or Sao Paolo - people always want to talk about toxic bosses and what to do about them. -- Srikumar Rao
Your goal, in other words, should be to make your bosses smarter, your team more effective, and the whole company more competitive because of your energy, creativity, and insights. -- Jack Welch
some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year. -- Helen Gurley Brown
When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss. -- Al Neuharth
As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they would never dominate their wives. -- Wilfrid Sheed
When you hear bosses talk about their best salespeople, they often refer to them as rock stars. It's the highest praise your boss can give someone on your team. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
You got a million drug laws now because the bosses figured there was more money in putting people in jail than taxing something anyone can grow on a window sill. -- Lenny Bruce
I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there, and was determining my life. -- Isabel Allende
I've got an odd, negative bond with C. Montgomery Burns. He reminds a lot of people of bosses they've worked for. He certainly reminds me of someone I'm working for -- Harry Shearer
It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most. -- Kanye West
Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it frustrates teams and bosses to no end. -- Jack Welch
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
The people are angry. It's running out of control. And unfortunately, there are a group of police that have become nothing more than enforcers for the political and financial crime bosses. -- Gerald Celente
Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements. -- Ron Livingston
I had very good bosses, very good companies for which I worked. I worked in industries where the results really mattered; it wasn't the perception of results, it was just the facts. -- Sallie Krawcheck
The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases. -- Adrian Rogers
I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that they are puppets and the corporate bosses are manipulating the strings. -- Larry Kirshbaum
Creative people like to think in unconventional ways, dislike rules, are easily bored, are independent, like to experiment, and enjoy being their own bosses. Basically the same traits found in most criminals and sociopaths -- Duncan Long
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare. -- Andy Rooney
What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses. -- Gloria Steinem
My only goal was to make the largest profit possible for my employer. I was caught in a spiral that - with the support of my bosses - continued to lead up and up. -- Jerome Kerviel
I have had bosses that were genuinely excited when I told them I was pregnant. I feel very blessed, but I also know I need to continue to do excellent work and stay organized. -- Megan Alexander
Criminals did not have friends. They had associates, suppliers, fences, whores, sugar daddies, enablers, dealers, collaborators, co-conspirators, victims and bosses, any of whom they might rat out and none of whom could be trusted." -- Robert Crais
Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, 'Oh yes, I'm hosting my own show.' -- Andy Cohen
Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential. And to do that, I insist you throw caution to the wind, ignore the pleas of parents, coaches, spouses, and bosses to be "realistic." -- John Eliot
So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom. -- Scott Walker

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