Receptionists Quotes

• You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.

  Harvey Mackay

  Hands, First Impression, May

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• Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards

  Judith Martin

  Home, People, Benefits

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• My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.

  Gene Kelly

  Dance, Mother, Jobs

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• Be good, kind, and friendly to the receptionist. She's had a hard day.

  Rebecca Pidgeon

  Friendly, Kind, Be Good

  "Huff Post Exclusive Music Download" by Rebecca Pidgeon, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2005.

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• The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.

  James Patterson

  Jobs, Like Her, Typing

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.

  Carly Fiorina

  Phones, Littles, Nine

  "An Interview with Future California Sen. Carly Fiorina". Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. June 10, 2010.

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• My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that.

  Anchee Min

  Jobs, Writing, Phones

  "Anchee Min on Her Memoir, 'The Cooked Seed'". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. May 11, 2013.

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• You might be a redneck if the receptionist checks the rat traps at your place of business.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Might, Rats

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• He was breathing, which is always a good sign. As gently as I could I picked him up, placed him on the towel, wrapped it around him, and put him in my car. I drove to the emergency clinic, the cat purring on the seat beside me. “What’s his name?” the young man at the front desk asked as my towel and cat were whisked to a back room. “Uh…John Tomkins,” I said. “That’s different,” the receptionist said, writing it down. “He was a pirate,” I said. “I mean Tomkins. I don’t know about the cat. (...)

  Josh Lanyon

  Writing, Mean, Cat

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• At IBM everybody sells! Every employee has been trained to think that the customer comes first - everybody from the CEO, to the people in finance, to the receptionists, to those who work in manufacturing.

  Buck Rodgers

  Work, Thinking, People

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• The Problem is: many terrific women have made themselves overqualified for the job of wife, because many men are looking for a woman with 'receptionist-level wife skills', not 'CEO-level wife skills'. Meaning: If a woman doesn't hang on a man's every word, is too independent, challenges his leadership, wants to create her own hours, demands emotional raises, then there won't be as many openings for the kind of wife position she is seeking. One of the big problems with marriages in the nineties: no room for two husbands.

  Karen Salmansohn

  Jobs, Husband, Independent

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• I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Jobs, Crazy, Careers

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• My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Would Be, Normal, Psychologist

  "Gabourey Sidibe Interview THE BIG C". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 17, 2010.

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• I love my life. I can't believe I work in New York and Paris. That I work for Louis Vuitton. That I work for Marc Jacobs. It seems really weird every time I say my full name - like, that's me, and every time I hear the receptionist say my name, it's still weird.

  Marc Jacobs

  New York, Believe, Names

  "WWD CEO Summit: Marc Jacobs". Interview with Jessica Iredale, wwd.com. January 9, 2013.

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• I ended up meeting my manager because my sister was a receptionist at a management company. My manager is actually my same manager that I have today. That's how it started. I worked my way.

  Katie Cassidy

  Today, Way, Management

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

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• Screening telephone calls with a receptionist or the humbler answering machine is not a dishonorable thing to do. The warmest people in the world still need uninterrupted time to attend to their lives and should not be outwitted if they have made it obvious that they are not always available upon summons.

  Judith Martin

  People, Needs, Machines

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• People who came to the clinics or came to the fundraiser knew what was happening in their state but didn't realize the profundity of what was happening all over the place. But the third thing [was] that at every single clinic I went to, somebody who worked there - it could have been the doctor, it could have been the receptionist - said, "Thank you for coming, no one ever comes." And it broke my heart...I've used these services, I've had an abortion, I got to be where I am because of access to making choices to have the life I wanted.

  Lizz Winstead

  Heart, Doctors, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Ladies, [motherhood] is a full-time job. Do not kid yourself that you can be a dental receptionist and a mother; that you can be a typist and a mom; that you can be a Vice President and a mom. One of the two things will win. Now look at your Bible and ask what you have to do.

  Alistair Begg

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

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• I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.

  Andrew Tobias

  New York, School, Editors

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• The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist - you can't really help it when you have feelings for someone.

  Jessica Szohr

  Teacher, Doctors, Liking Someone

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

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• Last time I really got to know myself it turned out there was a whole gang of bitches in there to deal with. I felt like the receptionist at a rehab center. They all had nice tits though, I gotta say.

  Christopher Moore

  Nice, Rehab, Lasts

  Christopher Moore (2009). “The Stupidest Angel (v2.0): A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

  Alan Patricof

  Jobs, Asking, Way

  "TechStar Interview: Alan Patricof". Interview with Bill Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2011.

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• Particularly fine is the top-heavy comedienne, Loni Anderson, as the receptionist whose movements turn men to stone...she keeps her head while all the men around her are losing theirs.

  James Wolcott

  Men, Stones, Losing

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• Kami said, "I want you to go in there and vamp that receptionist." "What?" Ash said blankly. "You know," Kami said. "Dazzle her with your charms. Rock her world. Go on." [...] "What," Ash said, "all of us?" "Do you want to stand around trying to guess if she likes pretty boys or rough trade?" Jared asked, gesturing lazily from Ash to himself. "Excuse me, what did you just call yourself?" Ash demanded. "No, wait a second, I don't care. What did you just call me?

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Boys, Rocks, Waiting

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• Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth is just staggering. And those people are paying less percentage of their total income to the federal government than their receptionists are. [...] I'll bet a million dollars against any member of the Forbes 400 who challenges - me that the average for the Forbes 400 will be less than the average of their receptionists.

  Warren Buffett

  Government, Average, Years

  Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.cnbc.com. October 31, 2007.

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