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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
Sep 29, 2025
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.
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.
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
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.
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 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.
In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
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.
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.'
Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.
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