“Feedback shouldn’t be rare, or reserved for a Big Deal Meeting with a box of tissues carefully placed on the table between you.”— Alison Green, thecut.com
“And as I grew up, I was lucky that my first bosses, the ones that really took me under their wings, were very strong women who guided me and pushed me.”— Lisa Blunt Rochester, elle.com
“Your team is there because they believe in what you’re doing, and they’re tied to it emotionally.”— Jen Gotch, girlboss.com
“...So, if you could do that, that would be great...”— Mike Judge, Bill Lumbergh, Gary Cole, imdb.com
“Ah, ah, I almost forgot....I'm also going to need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too. We, uhhh, lost some people this week and we sorta need to play catch-up. Mmmmmkay? Thaaaaaanks.”— Mike Judge, Bill Lumbergh, Gary Cole, imdb.com
“You see, the hard reality is how much money we accumulate in life is not a function of who's president or the economy or bubbles bursting or bad breaks or bosses.”— Bill Dubuque, Mark Williams, Mark Williams, Marty Byrde, Jason Bateman, imdb.com
“You’re just doing your job, and she’s not your boss anymore, so it makes sense that the relationship will change.”— Alison Green, askamanager.org
“Well, I've got to learn a lot of peoples' names before I fire them.”— Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Roger Sterling, John Slattery, imdb.com
“Jill also sounds incompetent … and it says something that that’s the least of the problems here.”— Alison Green, askamanager.org
“There are two ends to a stick, and there's more than one way of working. If it's for a human being—make sure and do it properly. If it's for the big man—just make it look good.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, davar.net