Boss-employee Relations Quotes

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

I've got corporate executives, my bosses... this is true... who will text message me... and say, 'Hey a, heard you had chemotherapy today, want me to stop by and pick you up something to eat and bring it to you?' Whose boss does that? My bosses do that.

You can always spot the employee playing golf with his boss. He's the fellow who makes a hole in one and says, "oops!"

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?

Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication.

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.

I don't recommend that people speak their minds to their bosses or to somebody who's directly over them. You need to know when to speak your mind and what the penalty will be for doing so. Sometimes it's worth it, and often it's not!

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

I have never had an unsupportive female boss. I've had several female bosses. They've all been super supportive.

A recent management study revealed that 46% of employees leaving a company do so because they feel underappreciated; 61% said their bosses don't place much importance on them as people, and 88% said they do not receive acknowledgement for the work they do.

We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.

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

Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career.

But in all cases when you have problems in your interactions with your boss, there's one more question you have to ask yourself: To what extent is your boss at fault, and to what extent are you a neophyte about supervisor-subordinate relationships?

A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.