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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.
Sep 30, 2025
To be a good boss, you must be transparent. Theres a correlation between worker happiness and workplace transparency. Leaders and managers who offer transparency will earn the respect and devotion of their team.
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.
A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.
And when things start to go wrong, a good boss doesn't just fire everybody and start over.
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.
People will work eight hours a day for pay, 10 hours a day for a good boss, and 24 hours a day for a good cause!
Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
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.
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
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.
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.
We get through life and this is part of the education process also. In real life, we meet bad bosses and good bosses and good friends and bad friends. I think we should let the teachers do their work and not impose too much stuff on them.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
A leader leads by example not by force.
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
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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