22 Quotes About Bosses You’ll Relate To

The boss isn’t always right, but he is the boss. – David Robertson

The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill. – Harry Gordon Selfridge

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

Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders. – Tom Peters

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing. – Warren G. Bennis

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

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. – Mike Murdock

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

The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white. – Betty Friedan

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

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It’s nothing new. – Judd Rose

I think after overcoming breast cancer, you sort of become fearless and somehow going up to your boss to talk about a possible promotion doesn’t seem like such a daunting task anymore. – Hoda Kotb

The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases. – Adrian Rogers

Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any ‘abuse’ came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position. – Monica Lewinsky

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses. – John C. Maxwell

We live in a society in the West, where, when men do violent things, they do them under orders. They are soldiers carrying out orders or mafia men carrying out killings for bosses. But the way things happen in the Middle East is not the same as in the West. – Robert Fisk

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title. – Marlo Thomas

If it weren’t for my breast cancer, I wouldn’t be a ‘Today’ host. After I got better, I talked to my boss about working on the show. Six months before, I’d have been terrified to go in there and ask for what I wanted. But after what I’d been through, how could I be scared of being told no? – Hoda Kotb

Do any of us actually want to live in a world where your boss can decide that he or she is morally opposed to mental health care? What if your employer was morally opposed to getting x-rays or antibiotics? How about just being forced to disclose your private medical information to your employer? – Richard Carmona

Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia bosses do not have any guilt feelings either, or maybe their remains are just well hidden in the cellar. Even aborted guilt feelings…All men need guilt feelings. – Pope Benedict XVI

The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says Lets GO! – Harry Gordon Selfridge

We live in a society in the West, where, when men do violent things, they do them under orders. They are soldiers carrying out orders or mafia men carrying out killings for bosses. But the way things happen in the Middle East is not the same as in the West. Look, international capital has been globalized, so Osama bin Laden is globalized. It’s not surprising to find followers of bin Laden in all these countries. – Robert Fisk

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