National Boss Day Quotes:

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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 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

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

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

- Groucho Marx

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

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