Top 100 Boss Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The supreme quality for leadership is integrity.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

52. “Take good care of your employees, and they’ll take good care of your customers, and the customers will come back.”

— J. Willard Marriott

53. “In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.”

— Tina Fey

54. “Always let your employees come to work with a smile.”

— Jack Ma

55. “If you take care of your workers they’ll take care of your business.”

— Richard Branson

56. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.”

— Oprah Winfrey

57. “A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.”

— Jack Ma

58. “There has never been a better time in the history of time than right now to start a business.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

59. “Leadership is the power of one harnessing the power of many.”

— John C. Maxwell

60. “The world is yours and everything in it, it’s out there- get on your grind and get it.”

— Young Jeezy

61. “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”

— Sam Walton

62. “Just because you are the boss doesn’t mean you are the source of all knowledge.”

— Jack Welch

63. “Every boss started as a worker.”

— Rick Ross

64. “The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.”

— John C. Maxwell

65. “Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.”

— Dave Ramsey

66. “Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.”

— John C. Maxwell

67. “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

68. “The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.”

— Lee Iacocca

69. “To help others develop, start with yourself! When the boss acts like a little god and tells everyone else they need to improve, that behavior can be copied at every level of management. Every level then points out how the level below it needs to change. The end result: No one gets much better.”

— Marshall Goldsmith

70. “In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people. They no longer can lead solely based on positional power.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

71. “Your own mental attitude is your real boss.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

74. “I’m just ’bout that action boss.”

— Marshawn Lynch

75. “Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.”

— Nolan Bushnell

76. “The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his boss.”

— Alanis Morissette

77. “The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.”

— Woodrow Wilson

78. “Now, if your boss is a sadist, then you have a big problem. In that case, fire your boss and get a new job.”

— Donald Trump

79. “There is only one boss. The customer.”

— Sam Walton

80. “In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.”

— Woody Allen

81. “I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.”

— Al McGuire

82. “If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.”

— Bill Gates

83. “It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

84. “Bob arum is Manny Pacquiao’s boss, Floyd Mayweather is his own boss.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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

— Doug Larson

86. “I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That’s not me.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Jim Dale

88. “Divine love is the sublime boss of the universe.”

— John Muir

89. “A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.”

— Peter Marshall

90. “Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.”

— Donald Rumsfeld

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

— Robert K. Greenleaf

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

— Cecilia Bartoli

93. “Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don’t.”

— Peter F. Drucker

94. “The first thing the secretary types is the boss.”

— Donald Trump

95. “No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.”

— Groucho Marx

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

— Robert Frost

97. “A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.”

— Mikhail Bakunin

98. “The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.”

— David Eddings

99. “It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.”

— George Cukor

100. “It’s always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.”

— Mary Cheney