Ability is what will get you to the top if the boss has no daughter.

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

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

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

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

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.

I didn’t say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you.

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

If a train station is where the train stops, what’s a workstation?

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings.”

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

I’ve met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time.

Monday is a lame way to spend 1/7 of your life.

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

Most people like hard work. Particularly when they are paying for it.

My Boss frequently gets lost in thought. That’s because it’s unfamiliar territory.

My Boss said to me, “What you see as a glass ceiling, I see as a protective barrier.”

Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.

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

The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds.

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.

We passed over a lot of good people to get the ones we hired.