Famous Quotes & Sayings

Percy Sledge

'Cover Me.' 'Take Time To Know Her.' 'Warm and Tender Love.' 'Out Of Left Field.' 'Dark End Of The Street.' 'Tears Me Up.' 'My Special Prayer.' All points back to one song. 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' The Grand-daddy to all of my songs. The boss of all of my songs. I have great respect for that song. Always will.

Bill Gross

The real boss in the family is my wife. She didn't want me hanging around the house all day and said, 'You don't want to retire; you'll regret it.' So I listened to her.

David Boies

But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned so much from him.

Lyle Lovett

Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication.

You guys ... don't forget who's the boss in the world.

If I want the day off, the boss never says 'No.' I paint away listening to an iTunes jazz station called KCSM Jazz Radio. It's perfect. Good music and no news traffic or celebrities.

Kevin Connolly

My favorite personal hockey moment was probably when Mike Bossy scored fifty goals in fifty games. He was the first one to do it since Rocket Richard. I was young when it happened, but I remember it very distinctly.

Mindy Kaling

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.'

Kirk Douglas

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

Mikhail Bakunin

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

Ina May Gaskin

Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.

Gloria Steinem

A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.

Lisi Harrison

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.

Jeremy Paxman

Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

Marcus Samuelsson

If you're cooking for someone important - whether it's your boss or a date - never try a new recipe and a new ingredient at the same time.

Martin Klebba

I'd love to drive a Lamborghini, but I think it's hard when the pedals are way down in there, and you sit real low, but I've come up with some pedal extensions. I actually sit in a kids' car seat that my old boss put this beautiful leather wrap around, and it looks just like a Corvette seat that sits on top of my leather Corvette seat.

Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Bubba Watson

Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the boss.

People complain their bosses never give them positive reinforcement, ... I say to them: 'If you think you get too little recognition, think of your boss. He or she gets less.'

Johnny Damon

Any day we get through without injury, The Boss is going to be happy.

Tell your boss you're after a tax-effective way to save more. There are enough different options. And there are easy, cheap ways to do it.

Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

The smart employee understands the boss's temperament and style. You want to move to being a partner from being just another worker. You want to become part of a high-performance team, and you want your boss to depend on you to deliver consistently high effort and offer good ideas.

Ricky Gervais

As long as they keep the important themes -- a job, work, a boss going through a mid-life crisis, trying to make a difference, being stuck somewhere you do not necessarily want to be.

Daniel Drew

That's who our boss is. Our philosophy is that we work for the customer.

A lot of people leave jobs because they say, 'I had no freedom. I had no say,' ... People don't want bosses who are ... just telling them what to do and not creating a strong collegial relationship with give and take.

Andrei Gromyko

An exchange of ideas occurs when you take an idea to your boss and you come back with his idea.

As a parent you want to support or enable your child, but as a boss you may have to fire your child and bring in better management.

They don't make bosses like that any more.

You don't want the perception of correction to lie in one individual's mind. And follow up with a document back to the boss stating what you're going to do to change. You need to send a message.

You don't want confrontation - you want your boss to see you as an up-and-comer,

Evan Dando

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

Frank Robinson

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.