National Bosses Day 2014 falls on Thursday, Oct. 16. If you're looking get a laugh or find a quote to thank your boss, then look no further! We have compiled a list of 27 quotes that will be perfect for the occasion.
1. "Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss." -- Jim Murray
2. "The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week." -- Robert Frost
3. "No man goes before his time, unless the boss leaves early." -- Groucho Marx
4. "The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate you away from those who are still undecided." -- Casey Stengal
5. "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
6. "If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire." -- Cannon's Law
7. "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." -- Howard Aiken
8. "One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you." -- Dennis A. Peer
9. "A good boss is a person who can tolerate my complaints and still manage to say hello to me everyday." -- Byron Pulsifer
10. "If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter." -- John Gotti
11. "The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill." -- Robert Heller
12. "In many businesses, today will end at five o'clock. Those bent on success, however, make today last from yesterday right through to tomorrow." -- Lawrence H. Martin
13. "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." -- Theodore Roosevelt
14. "There is no failure except in no longer trying." -- Elbert Hubbard
15. "If it wasn't for bad bosses, I wouldn't know what a good one was like." -- Byron Pulsifer
16. "A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting." -- Russell H. Ewing
17. "Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties." -- Doug Larson
18. "The world is divided into people who do things -- and people who get the credit." -- Dwight Morrow
19. "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." -- Casey Stengel
20. "The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules." -- Elting Morison
21. "The mark of a true executive is usually illegible." -- Leo J. Farrell, Jr.
22. "Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't." -- Peter Drucker
23. "People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives." -- Theodore Roosevelt
24. "I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low." -- Tim Gould
25. "The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people." -- Woodrow Wilson
26. "The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself." -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
27."The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players." -- Don Coryell
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