Boss Day Quotes:

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

- Robert Heller

topic: Work, Skills, Boss, Murphys Law, Funny 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.

- Sam Walton

source: "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Business, Work, Customer Experience, Inspirational Customer Service

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

- Thomas J. Watson

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Business, Leading On, Good Leader

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation, Social Good, Inspirational Thank You

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Motivational, Thank You, Gratitude, I Am Thankful, Sensations

Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.

- Doug Larson

topic: Funny, Humorous, Mean, Funny Boss, Funny Boss Day

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.

- Casey Stengel

topic: Success, Sports, Baseball, Funny Boss, Funny Boss Day

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

- Howard Aiken

topic: Life And Love, Business, Congratulations, Daily Work, Innovation And Business

Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Hard Work, Funny Work, People, Funny Boss Day, Boss's Day

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Wise, Business, Goal, Quality In Business, Funny Boss Day

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.

- Bill Gold

topic: Work, Men, People, Funny Boss Day, Boss's Day

'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason.

- Stefanie Powers

topic: People, Boss, Reason, Boss's Day, Boss Day

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

- Robert Frost

topic: Lonely, Men, Boss, Being Lonely, Funny Boss

When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

- Voltaire

topic: Appreciation, Morning, Light, Life Appreciation, Morning Light

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

- Robert Frost

topic: Motivational, Jobs, Careers, Careers Choices, Funny Boss Day

The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.

- Gabriel Heatter

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Horse, Work, People, Funny Boss Day, Boss Day

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

topic: Men, Thinking, Boss, Good Boss, Boss's Day

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

- Lee Iacocca

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Teamwork

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Social Good, Kindness Generosity

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.

- Groucho Marx

topic: Work, Men, Laughing, Funny Boss Day, Boss's Day

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

- Robert Frost

topic: Funny, Motivational, Hilarious, Funny Leadership, Professional Career

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.'

- Dave Barry

source: Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.

topic: Life And Love, Humor, Funny Work, Work Humor, Business Meeting

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Leadership, Differences, People, Management Motivation, Innovation And Leadership

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.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership, True Leader, Innovation And Leadership

Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems.

- Donald Rumsfeld

source: Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

topic: Boss, Blame, Problem, Funny Boss, Funny Boss Day

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

- Casey Stengel

topic: Motivational, Business, Hate, Funny Leadership, Undecided

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, American Football, Nfl Football

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

- Mikhail Bakunin

source: "God and the State". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1882.

topic: Boss, Heaven, Earth, Boss Day

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

- Bill Gates

topic: Wealth And Success, Boss Day, School Teachers, Happy Boss Day, Happy Teachers Day

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.

- Ken Blanchard

topic: Leadership, Power, Past, Leadership By Famous Leaders, Servant Leadership

I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.

- Tim Gould

topic: Boss, Management, Middle, Middle Management, Funny Boss Day

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.

- Joan Rivers

source: "Joan Rivers Interview: Her 6 Best One-Liners". Interview with Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 12, 2013.

topic: People, Boss, Matter, Hillarious, Boss Day

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.

- Harry S. Truman

source: "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".

topic: Leadership, Party, Government, Republican Party, Democratic Country

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Students And Education, Wonderful Teacher

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

- Alanis Morissette

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Jobs, Never Stop Learning, Always Learning

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

- Laurence J. Peter

topic: Funny Work, Boss, Levels, Funny Boss, Funny Boss Day

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Selfish, Acceptance, Boss, Funny Boss Day, Boss Day

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

- Woodrow Wilson

source: Woodrow Wilson (1965). “The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson”

topic: Leadership, Patriotic, Voice, Listening To Others, Listening Ear

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

- Tom Peters

topic: Leadership, Business, Insperational, Leadership And Management, Leadership Skills

A leader leads by example not by force.

- Sun Tzu

source: "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, translated by Chow-Hou Wee, (Chapter IX), 2003.

topic: Army, Leader, Example, Modern Warfare, Modern Warfare 2

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

- Patrick Ness

topic: Leadership, Hate, People, Boss Day

Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.

- Orrin Woodward

topic: Leader, Boss, Decision, Boss Day

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Fear, Business, Responsibility, Military Leadership, Responsibility Of Leadership

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.

- Michael Josephson

topic: Wise, People, Boss, Boss Day