Good Boss Quotes:

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

- Tina Fey

topic: Witty, Mean, People, Top Management, Good Manager

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

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

- Tom Peters

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

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

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

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.

- David Niu

topic: Team, Leader, Boss, Correlation, Good Boss

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

- George E. M. Kelly

topic: Business, Differences, Leader, Funny Leadership, Spiritual Leader

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.

- Lisi Harrison

source: Lisi Harrison (2009). “The Clique #11: Boys R Us”, p.136, Hachette UK

topic: Boss, Next, Problem, Good Boss

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

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

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

- Gene Mauch

topic: Business, Gone, Good Boss, Boss And Leader

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!

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Motivation, Eight, People, Good Boss

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

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Real, Boss, Hats, Real Boss, Good Boss

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

- Robert Jarvik

source: "At theNAT, building a family". Interview with Lisa Deaderick, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 4, 2016.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Fear, Leadership And Vision, Leadership Vision

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Relationship, Leadership, Business, Managing People, Innovation And Leadership

And when things start to go wrong, a good boss doesn't just fire everybody and start over.

- Lisi Harrison

topic: Fire, Starting Over, Boss, Good Boss

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

- Henry Miller

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Business, Lead Characters, Leadership Courage

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.

- Sallie Krawcheck

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Good Boss

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

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

- Witter Bynner

topic: People, Boss, Leader, Managing People, Funny Leadership

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

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

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.

- Philippe Falardeau

topic: Teacher, Real, Bad Friend, Good Boss

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

- Rudy Giuliani

source: 2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 30 August 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

topic: Leadership, Vision, Needs, Leadership And Vision, Leadership Vision

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.

- Barbara Corcoran

topic: Dog, Jobs, Boss, Good Boss

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

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