Personnel Quotes

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  Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

  Sam Walton

  Motivational, Leadership, Educational

  Attributed in "The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time" by Leslie Pockell, November 23, 2004.

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• You're only as good as the people you hire.

  Ray Kroc

  Leadership, Mcdonalds, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Jobs, Keys, Income

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• When you trust and have elevated personnel in each department then the sky really is the limit.

  Lily Collins

  Sky, Limits, Department

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

  Michael Bloomberg

  America, Decision, Would Be

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• Few great men would have got past personnel.

  Paul Goodman

  Funny, Business, Past

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• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.120, Mango Media Inc.

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• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Climbing Up, Top Management

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.120, Mango Media Inc.

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• People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?

  Ricardo Semler

  Home, People, Adults

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• I feel a special kinship with our military personnel, veterans, and their families. After all, two of my decisions sent them into harm's way.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Two, Decision

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.

  Akio Morita

  Leadership, Quality, Way

  "The millionaire's book of quotations" by Mark Fisher, (p. 80), 1991.

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• Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.

  Petra Kelly

  Mean, Revolution, Violent

  Petra Karin Kelly (1984). “Fighting for Hope”, p.31, South End Press

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• Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.

  John C. Maxwell

  Team, Wrestling, Work Ethic

  John C. Maxwell (2003). “The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork Workbook: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team”, p.182, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.

  Walter Alston

  Knowing, Giving, Conditions

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• The Bully has a Jekyll and Hyde nature - is vile, vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front of witnesses; no-one can (or wants to) believe this individual has a vindictive nature - only the current target of the serial bully's aggression sees both sides; whilst the Jekyll side is described as "charming" and convincing enough to deceive personnel, management and a tribunal, the Hyde side is frequently described as "evil"; Hyde is the real person, Jekyll is an act.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Real, Believe

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• At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.

  John Hersey

  Girl, Morning, Past

  John Hersey (1946). “Hiroshima”

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• Never do anything that you don’t want to have to explain to 9-1-1 personnel.

  Jill Shalvis

  Want

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• We took a right at the fork, heading farther north. The charred houses continued. To the right, a large sign nailed to an old telephone post shouted DANGER in huge red letters. Underneath in crisp black letters was written: IM-1: Infectious Magic Area Do Not Enter Authorized Personnel Only A second smaller sign under the first one, written on a piece of plastic with permanent marker, read: Keep out, stupid. “We aren’t going to keep out, are we?” Ascanio asked. “No.” “Awesome.

  Ilona Andrews

  Stupid, House, Black

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.58, Penguin

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• The Commission endorses prevention as the principal strategy to use in deterring illegal entries. We applaud the efforts of innovative Border Patrol leaders such as Silvestre Reyes with Operation Hold the Line in El Paso. Operation Hold the Line demonstrated that a strategic use of personnel and technology can combine at our land border, as it has for many years at our airports, to reduce unauthorized crossings.

  Barbara Jordan

  Technology, Airports, Years

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• He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in terror and didn’t stop till it was set upon and eaten by a fox which choked on one of its bones and died on the bank of a stream which subsequently washed it away. During the following weeks Ford Perfect swallowed his pride and struck up a relationship with a girl who had been a personnel officer on Golgafrincham, and he was terribly upset when she suddenly passed away as a result of drinking water from a pool that had been polluted by the body of a dead fox.

  Douglas Adams

  Girl, Drinking, Pride

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.149, Pan Macmillan

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• Oh, hey. This looks promising. " We came to a stop before a high, barbwire fence with an enormous PRIVATE PROPERTY--NO UNAUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ALLOWED sign on it. The lettering was red, apparently to emphasize how serious they were. Personally, I would have added a skull and crossbones to really drive the message home.

  Richelle Mead

  Home, Skulls, Rose

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.57, Penguin

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• I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God." "Then who are you?" "The personnel officer who hired God.

  Orson Scott Card

  Concerned, Officers

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.76, Macmillan

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• In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, Penalties, Irrevocable

  Douglas MacArthur, Edward T. Imparato (2001). “General MacArthur: Wisdom and Visions”, p.157, Turner Publishing Company

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• Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.

  Michael Sheen

  Real, Passion, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.

  James Buchan

  Novelists, Stories, Scruples

  "Sold, for two truckloads of oranges" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.

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