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If you are the boss it's wise to remember that there are lots of things you don't know and lots of people who hope you won't find out.
Oct 1, 2025
Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.
I've learned from doing my own show with Fox that people are not your partners if they're signing the checks. Whoever signs your paycheck is the boss - no matter what they tell you.
I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.
A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
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.
The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason.
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.
The first myth of management is that it exists.
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
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.
There is only one boss. The customer.
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time.
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
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.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
A leader leads by example not by force.
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.
The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
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