If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.

Don't carry a gun. It's nice to have them close by, but don't carry them. You might get arrested.

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.

To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.

Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.

As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.

I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.

Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.

The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children.

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.

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

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play.

I've never wanted to be the boss.

That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't.

We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.

My men and I have decided that our boss, the president of the United States, is as tough as woodpecker lips.

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.

My boss told me to get my butt in gear. I told him I was shiftless.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

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

We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father.

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

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.

OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.

Dick Wolf was my first boss after coming out of Sarah Lawrence.

The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.

The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.

I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.

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

If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful.

Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

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.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

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

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

The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.

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