Administrative Quotes

• No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Thank You, Wise

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• Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christmas

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• Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

  Earl Nightingale

  Funny, Work, Humor

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• I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

  Clark Kerr

  Education, Sex, Learning

  Quoted in Time, 17 Nov. 1958

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• What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

  John W. Gardner

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Business, Humorous

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• Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  "How to Write a Gratitude Speech" by Peggy Epstein, bizfluent.com. September 26, 2017.

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• Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

  Sam Walton

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Team Building

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.315, Bantam

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• No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

  Joseph Addison

  Appreciation, Volunteer, World

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• I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.

  William Shakespeare

  Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation

  William Shakespeare, Burton Raffel, Harold Bloom (2007). “Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will”, p.88, Yale University Press

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• Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen,
  well-timed, sincere words of praise.
  They're absolutely free and worth a fortune

  Sam Walton

  Leadership, Appreciation, Team Building

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• As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.836, Best Books on

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  The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship

  Letter to his class at Radcliffe College, 6 Apr. 1896, in Letters (1920) vol. 2, p. 33

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  The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Life, Motivational

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  No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

  James Allen

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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• I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Leadership, Thank You, Teacher

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• Thanks are the highest form of thought.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Sleep, Men, Appreciate

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• I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

  Barry Goldwater

  Business, Stupid, Men

  Attributed to Barry Goldwater in: Conference Board, Across the board. Vol. 15. p. 74, 1978.

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• The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

  Donald Trump

  Boss, Firsts, Type

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• The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

  Walter J. West

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Firsts

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• And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.

  Arthur Bryant

  Farewell, Thinking, Brain

  Sir Arthur Bryant, Alan Brooke Alanbrooke (Viscount) (1957). “The Turn of the Tide: A History of the War Years Based on the Diares of Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff”

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• If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

  Daryl Hall

  Assistants, Rooms, Superstar

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• Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Responsibility, Fate, Destiny

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