One of my first jobs was as a recipe tester for a PR agency. One week, the editor of ‘Housewife’ magazine called my boss and asked me to write a column – the cookery editor had gone away on a press trip. I was terrified.
I get recognized by some people in my community, but not a lot. In fact, they would say, ‘What do you do?’ And I would say, ‘Well, I did ‘The Bernie Mac Show.” And they would say, ‘Oh, really? Well, do you know so-and-so?’ And I’d say, ‘Yeah, I hired them. I was the boss!’ They don’t believe it.
My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O’Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.
Momma was the important woman in our home. She never let me forget that she was boss. I was always in the shadow. Every time I tried to step out on my own, I was in trouble with her.
When my wife Gauri visited the ‘Bigg Boss’ house, I can’t tell you how overjoyed I was to see her. The level of isolation in that house hit me hard when I saw her there.
I like to be comfortable. If I go out, if it’s a premiere, I’ll put on a suit and look nice. I like Hugo Boss for that.
We had a lot of different personalities. Hoak was the straw boss. He just would not quit.
He chased me for three months before the show. But, Vishal Karwal is not my friend now, and ‘Bigg Boss’ made me realize that he was never a friend in the first place.
I like to work hard and I like to work for somebody. I like to stay late and clean up the back and show the boss in the morning.
My first boss was a tall, slim man called Mr. Wheel. I worked for him as a secretary in a food company in central London. He really liked young people and was like a father figure to me.
So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.
It’s not that I’m a ‘Let’s hug and be joyful all the time’ boss. Or that I don’t, quote, ‘own my own power.’ I just never want to be that big, swingin’, rule-by-fear person.
The relationship between you and your boss will change over time. When you just started out, that boss was your mentor and took you under their wing. As a seasoned employee, though, you no longer need your boss to guide you along. You should be able to handle tasks on your own.
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.
I’ve never found it any tougher being a woman than a man, but I’ve always been the boss.
I have no bitterness towards Mourinho. I did what I had to do in training. Of course, I didn’t understand his choices, but he was the boss. I had to accept those choices.
History will always regard Florida as the state that decided the Bush-Gore contest, but if Gore had carried Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, West Virginia or Kentucky – all states that his boss won twice – then he’d have won the election anyway.
During my seven-year contract with RKO, there were seven different studio presidents, from David O. Selznick to Charles W. Koerner. You literally had to check the name on the door so as not to call the new boss by the former boss’s name.
‘Chef’ doesn’t mean that you’re the best cook, it simply means ‘boss.’
I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong views.
‘Bigg Boss’ is crazy and I am crazy to do it.
For me, ‘Bigg Boss’ was like a correction centre. I think every man and woman in every state should be sent there. People take so many things for granted. They will learn to appreciate what they have once they have spent some time in the house.
There are so many professional women who have to be this boss, but when they get home, it’s like, ‘Can someone take care of me? Can I not be so powerful?’
Managers don’t have as much leverage as they used to have. We can’t really be the boss.
The feeling, the sensation behind it is, it’s exciting to cherry pick and select and be your own boss and to be in control of your own brand; however, it’s a lot of work.
I never wanted to work for anybody else; I always wanted to be my own boss.
I really would not be where I am today if I hadn’t done those PUP videos. It just showed me so much. It taught me so much about music and acting and being your own boss.
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance.
The director is the boss on the set. We don’t take away anyone’s creative freedom. There are many production houses which get into creative calls. I just give suggestions.
Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation… If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.
My life and career is not just one reality show. Once you get ‘Bigg Boss’ out of your system, which happened in a few hours, everything was fine.
I think it’s hard, when you’re someone who likes to please people, as I am, to be a boss. I had to learn how to rein myself in and not terrify people.
Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
The coach is the boss at the end of the day. I do whatever he tells me and don’t ask questions.
I’m a big believer in picking your boss, not the job. Great people create great jobs.
Honestly, surviving in ‘Bigg Boss’ was a cakewalk as compared to staying in ‘Survivor,’ where we had to live in primitive-age conditions, even generating fire on our own.
It saddens me to see the entrepreneurial world in Brazil, because it’s a misfortune to be a boss in our country, with so many labor laws.
Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you’re in big trouble if you’re borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We’ve got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.
As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I’ve learned that failure will always come. I’ve learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment.
A lot of companies have teams, but they are not really independent. They still have to get stuff approved by the boss. You have to change how and where decisions are made. If the hierarchy makes the decision, it will be based on politics.
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.
I’ve been hopping around in sitcom land. I did an episode of ‘Roseanne,’ ‘Family ‘Ties’ and ‘Who’s the Boss.’
I did not even watch my season after I came out of the house. I don’t watch ‘Bigg Boss.’ I find it very disturbing.
Being a boss takes guts and tenacity. Being a boss takes hustle and strength. Getting to the level of boss takes hard work – often times, harder than our male counterpoint because in many industries, we’re fighting our way into a boys’ club.
No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss.
My old boss Aidy Boothroyd is a great man and I’ve got no malice or anything toward him.
My boss told me to get my butt in gear. I told him I was shiftless.
Maintaining dignity and staying calm in a show like ‘Bigg Boss’ is a very big task.
What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.
Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get… to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.
Journalism is not what it used to be. I thought it was an important job, but it is not. I’m idealistic, and it pretty much upsets me that negativity sells and that even if I wanted to tell the truth, I wouldn’t be able to if my boss does not okay it.
Being my own boss and working inside an industry that’s not really an industry, I need to keep busy and keep working. The only way to make money in music – unless you’re managing someone – is to tour, and even that depends on where you are at.
I play tons of authority figures, whether it’s the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it’s a combination of how I look, who I am.
I am on ‘Bigg Boss’ only because it can open doors to the Hindi film industry for me.
I think the biggest part of being a girl boss in the office, at home, or anywhere you go is just knowing your value.
My father is my best friend. He’s my idol and my boss. We work side by side and spend every weekend together.
Our job is quite strange in that we hire a coach, and therefore, we’re the boss. But coaches tell us what to do, and I think some coaches might struggle with the idea of a girl being the boss and telling them, ‘I don’t want to see you now. I want to have some time to myself.’
