“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter. ”
John Gotti (1940–2002) American crime boss
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. ”
John Gotti (1940–2002) American crime boss
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
Interview with Jon Landau for Rolling Stone (1972); republished in The Rolling Stone Interviews: 1967-1980 (1989) edited by Peter Herbst, p. 211
Ricky Gervais (1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter
Ed Bradley (1941–2006) News correspondent
[Ed Bradley, Werner Erhard, 60 Minutes, CBS News ; Producer: David Gelber, March 3, 1991]
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
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.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
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
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
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.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry