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The audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said in the last 20 years, the real boss is the audience.

The Austrian theory of subjective value teaches us that there are many ways to incentivize or motivate or induce someone to commit an action for you: you can promise sexual favors, promise to pay money, hire someone, and so on. Also, there is no reason to think that both the boss and his underling cannot both be 100% responsible: in the law this is called joint and several liability.

The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay.

The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?

The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.

The boss is not paying you. They just keep the money for you only. New customers who actually paid

The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill.

The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either.

The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says 'I'; The leader says 'We'.

The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status.

The boss drives people; The leader coaches them.

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.

The boss isn't always right, but he is the boss.

The boss says 'I'; the leader, 'we'.

The boss says 'Go'; the leader says 'Let's go!'

The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.

The desire to please your boss is a good thing, but it could mutate into a weakness. One of the first challenges of getting promoted into management is negotiating the tension between the desire to please the person who promoted you while still remaining true to yourself. The tension is normal, and the fact that you feel it is probably indicative of why you were promoted.

The fact is that, under a capitalistic system, the ultimate bosses are the consumers. The sovereign is not the state, it is the people.

The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.

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

The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

The best thing that I can offer to people is just to be honest, and that's a rare quality. In doing so, I think there's always a top down feeling that permeates a working environment. If the boss is cool and he's a certain way that's not bullshitting, then everyone around is going to feel that comfort and try to be that way, as well. That's just who I strive to be, as a person.

The feedback women are getting at work is amazingly ineffective or vague. You need to signal to your boss or senior colleagues that you want honest feedback, and that you promise not to take it too personally.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

The first myth of management is that it exists.

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful.

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.

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it.

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.

The only relaxed boss is Big Ron. He had me drinking pink champagne - before the match.

The only thing stopping you is fear, and the only thing that will get you past it is courage. What you do with your life isn't up to your parents, your boss, or your spouse. It's up to you and you alone.

The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to work with the aim of being promoted to what he has.

Then something occurred to me. "Get closer," I told Blackjack. He whinnied in protest. "Just within shouting distance," I said. "I need to talk to the statue." Now I'm sure you've lost it, boss, Blackjack said

The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated him like a person.

The person who works harder when the boss isn’t around is headed straight for a better job.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.

The only beef Enron employees have with top management is that management did not inform employees of the collapse in time to allow them to get in on the swindle. If Enron executives had shouted, "Head for the hills!" the employees might have had time to sucker other Americans into buying wildly over-inflated Enron stock. Just because your boss is a criminal doesn't make you a hero.

The people are angry. It's running out of control. And unfortunately, there are a group of police that have become nothing more than enforcers for the political and financial crime bosses.

There is only one boss. The customer.

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

There are no requirements when you're using a particular genre. It's not like the genre is your boss and you have to do what it says. You can make use of the genre any way you want to, as long as you can make it work.

There are two kinds of airplanes - those you fly and those that fly you . . . You must have a distinct understanding at the very start as to who is the boss.

There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba

There's only one boss in your life . . . and that's you! The person looking back in the mirror at you is the one you have to answer to every day.

There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?" "Evil's afoot." "Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.