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

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

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

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

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

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

Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing read more

Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing politics and soft-soaping their bosses. Boards don't like tough, abrasive guys.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently read more

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

Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions.

Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions.

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

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

No man goes before his time / unless the boss leaves early.

No man goes before his time / unless the boss leaves early.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, read more

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.