People say I’m the best boss. They go, ‘Oh, we’ve never worked in a place like this before, you’re such a laugh. You get the best out of us.’ And I go, you know, ‘C’est la vie.’ If that’s true – excellent. – Ricky Gervais As David Brent, in The Office (UK).
People think if you’re a movie star, you’re the boss. But first of all, I’m not a movie star, I’m in a very different place. I’m not looking to do what I want – I am looking for what we can find. It’s a creative process. – Rutger Hauer
I’m under contract. Whatever the UFC asks, I have to do because they are my bosses and they treat me very well. I can’t complain about that, and it’s this, man: When you have a boss, you need to follow orders. – Rafael dos Anjos
I went to my boss, and I said, ‘Look, I’d like to design these ties because I think they could be new.’ He said, ‘The world isn’t ready for Ralph Lauren.’ I never forgot that because… I thought that was a compliment. – Ralph Lauren
I think it’s hard, when you’re someone who likes to please people, as I am, to be a boss. I had to learn how to rein myself in and not terrify people. – Ruth Reichl
In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can’t fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all. – Rick Perlstein
I’ve been used to being my own boss for a really long time, so I don’t take to authority very well. – Priyanka Chopra
It’s good fun, making a solo album, because there’s perhaps songs that wouldn’t get used for the Stones or any other kind of outfit that I’m working with. It’s just nice to be the boss. – Ronnie Wood
When you hire that first person, then you’re a boss. You’ve got performance reviews. You’ve got complaints about not making enough money. You’ve got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids. – Scott Adams
I don’t have a boss. Well, I have a boss: the public. If the public doesn’t buy my books, I would be out of a job. – Peter Mayle
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. – Robert Frost
I think I’ve been a moderately good boss. I’ve made a lot of people extremely wealthy – I think we’ve created 30 millionaires. – Peter Hargreaves
Anyone watching ’30 Rock’ always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She’s the boss; Liz Lemon just works here. – Rob Sheffield
What are we doing to make sure that people don’t get the debate questions ahead of time – because I can tell you this: if my boss at the time, Reince Priebus, had gotten the debate questions, and handed them off, he would have been driven out of this town on a stake, and Donald Trump would have been vilified. – Sean Spicer
I was definitely Theater-Band Geek/Straight-Up Boss Subgroup C. I was really into band and theater and super into music at the time. I loved performing arts, and that would definitely be my group. – RJ Cyler
You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours. – Robert Pozen
If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly. – Sinead O’Connor
People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses. – Stephen Covey
Without false modesty, I feel that, when I’m on the stage, I’m the king, the boss of the situation. – Vladimir Horowitz
I would never go into the ‘Bigg Boss’ house even in a hypothetical situation. I have been to jail, so if I were to be confined in that house, I’d get rattled. – Sanjay Dutt
Whether you’re a mechanic or you build houses or you work in an office, you don’t have to like your boss. – Timothy F. Cahill
We don’t want a busybody government – a boss – that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on. – Sonny Perdue
In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list. – Tracy Letts
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance. – Steven Pinker
What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world. – Steven Van Zandt
I would say that the energy on set is always the energy of the director because he’s the boss. – Stephanie Sigman