“If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail.”

—  Ricky Gervais

Last update July 5, 2026. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail." by Ricky Gervais?
Ricky Gervais photo
Ricky Gervais29
English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writ… 1961

Related quotes

Peter F. Drucker photo

“Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.”

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant

Source: 1990s and later, Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992), p. 140

Jodi Picoult photo

“So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

Tamora Pierce photo

“I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it."
She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.”

Tamora Pierce book Alanna: The First Adventure

Source: Alanna: The First Adventure

Donald J. Trump photo

“Now, if your boss is a sadist, then you have a big problem. In that case, fire your boss and get a new job.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Trump: How to Get Rich (2004)
2000s

Homér photo

“Then looking at him darkly resourceful Odysseus spoke to him:
"What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?"”

Homér Iliad

IV. 350–351 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“My boss told me to get my butt in gear. I told him I was shiftless.”

Jay London (1966) American comedian

One-liners

“Ann looked down at him, spread on the bank preparing to go to sleep, and lost her temper. "Then you should go and tell him! You should look after him! He's all alone in this wood, and he's quite small, and he doesn't even know he's not supposed to go out of it. He probably doesn't even know how to work the field to get food. You - you calmly make him up, out of blood and - and nothing, and you expect him to do your dirty work for you, and you don't even tell him the rules!”

Diana Wynne Jones book Hexwood

You can't do that to a person!"
Source: Hexwood (1993), pp. 54-55.

“Jail him, now!”

Luiz Carlos Alborghetti (1945–2009) Italian-Brazilian radio commenter, showman and political figure

Original: (pt) Cadeia nele, já!

(pt) Source: [9 December 2009, Morre Luiz Carlos Alborghetti, dono do bordão 'bandido bom é bandido morto', https://extra.globo.com/tv-e-lazer/morre-luiz-carlos-alborghetti-dono-do-bordao-bandido-bom-bandido-morto-209786.html, Portuguese, Extra, Editora Globo S/A, 31 March 2019]

“…. and when Tatiana lifted her glistening eyes to him, Alexander was looking down at her with his I’ll-get-on-the-bus-for-you-anytime face.”

Paullina Simons book The Summer Garden

Source: The Summer Garden

Related topics