
“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter. ”
Trump: How to Get Rich (2004)
2000s
“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter. ”
Interview with Jon Landau for Rolling Stone (1972); republished in The Rolling Stone Interviews: 1967-1980 (1989) edited by Peter Herbst, p. 211
[Ed Bradley, Werner Erhard, 60 Minutes, CBS News ; Producer: David Gelber, March 3, 1991]
Source: 1990s and later, Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992), p. 138
“Steady, Monty. You can't speak to me like that. I'm your boss.”
Response to violent criticism by Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein about Eisenhower's broad front tactics before Operation Market Garden, as quoted in Arnhem — A Tragedy of Errors (1994) by Peter Harclerode, p. 27 and BBC documentary D-Day to Berlin, on Eisenhower's aircraft at Brussels airport on 10 September 1944.
1940s
Source: 1990s and later, Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992), p. 137
“Well, I wanna be your lover, baby, I don't wanna be your boss.”
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry