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Happy Boss Day quotes, sayings: Celebrate 2011 Boss's Day on October 16

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October 13, 2011

Looking for happy Boss's Day quotes? Boss Day is October 16, so if you're scrambling before the weekend to find a quote or saying to send in a card, text or email there are many to choose from below.

If your boss is savvy with social media, send a Boss Day quote via Twitter or on Facebook. Just make sure the quote is complimentary so you still have a job on Monday.

Find a mix of Boss's Day quotes below including quotes from famous bosses and funny quotes for a boss with a sense of humor.

National Boss's Day Quotes

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team. - Lee Iacocca

I've never wanted to be the boss. - Harrison Ford

If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful. - Bobby McFerrin (continued below)

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter. - John Gotti

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure. - Bill Gates

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'. - Tony Blair

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker. - Woody Allen

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power. - Ken Blanchard

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could. - Charles Erwin Wilson

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. - Robert Frost

The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ~Theodore Roosevelt

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"

Funny Boss's Day Quotes

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skills. - Robert Heller

Sometimes the best solution to morale problems is just to fire all of the unhappy people. - Despair.com

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties - Doug Larson

Key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate you away from those who are still undecided. - Casey Stengal

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have job if he was any smarter. - Albert A Grant

Being a boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. - Allison Gomme

Because you've done so much for the company, there's not much left we can use. - Despair.com

Boss' Day is also known as Boss's Day, Bosses Day or National Boss Day and is celebrated in the US and Canada on October 16 every year as a way to thank a great boss for their fairness all year.

Your boss has Patricia Haroski to thank for this holiday. She started National Boss Day in 1958 to honor her father who gave great advice to his children throughout their careers. Patricia picked the 16th of October as the official day to celebrate because it was her father's birthday.

Quote Sources: BrainyQuote.com, Despair.com, Fundootimes.com

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