Funny Boss Quotes:

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

If at first you don't succeed, try management.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Success, Perseverance, Persistence, Try Again, About Success

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

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 speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

- Lee Iacocca

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

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

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

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

I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you.

- Ashleigh Brilliant

topic: Competition, Faults, Blame, Funny Boss

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

- Woody Allen

topic: Marriage, Funny Love, Best Love, Humorous Love, Marriage Engagement

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

- Laurence J. Peter

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

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

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

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

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

- Abe Lemons

topic: Retirement, Days Off, Trouble, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

- William Feather

topic: Success, Perseverance, Hard Work, Try Again, Spanish And English

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

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

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Retirement, Jobs, Business, Funny Retirement, Funny Boss

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

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

- William Edward Hickson

topic: Inspirational, Success, Trying, Try Again, About Success