Staff Quotes - Page 18

• I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do.

  David Ogilvy

  Hours, Figures, Reluctant

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• This has got to be the greatest school for lab bands in the country. It's great because Leon Breeden and his staff have devoted their lives - not just their time and talent - to build it.

  Louie Bellson

  Country, School, Band

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• I did learn something interesting [while at the Atlanta airport]. You have to be a member of the TSA in order to legally perform a cavity search. My apologies to the staff of Cinnabon, but you guys should really keep that extra frosting where the customers can find it.

  Stephen Colbert

  Apology, Airports, Tsa

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• Bryant Gumbel is thrilled about his CBS deal and can't wait to start alienating the staff of an entirely new network.

  Craig Kilborn

  Waiting, Deals

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• Train your staff (if you have any) to be always helpful, courteous, and knowledgeable. Most importantly, give every member of your staff enough information and power to make those small customer-pleasing decisions, so he never has to say, "I don't know, but so-and-so will be back at..."

  Susan Ward

  Educational, Giving, Decision

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• President's personal staff has a unique role. They're his intimate personal advisers, and the tradition and the precedent has been, even when I was national security adviser, that people in that position do not testify before the Congress. They talk to the Congress. They have meetings with the Congress.

  Colin Powell

  Unique, People, President

  "Secretary of State Colin Powell". Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 25, 2004.

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• One of the things that I learned in television, and one of the beauties of television, is that, if you have a strong writing staff, they rely on you just as much as you rely on them. They look to me or the other actors to help inspire them to take the character in interesting directions.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Strong, Writing, Character

  "Kyle MacLachlan on INSIDE OUT, the Diversity of His Characters, TWIN PEAKS, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 20, 2015.

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• I didn't feel the need to have a lot of yes-men standing around me. As Mitchell Sharp once put it, the bigger the staff, the smaller the minister.

  Jean Chretien

  Men, Needs, Ministers

  Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.38, Vintage Canada

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• God has come again and again in various Forms, has spoken again and again in different words and different languages the Same One Truth - but how many are there that live up to it? Instead of making Truth the vitalbreath of his life, man compromises by making over and over againa mechanical religion of it - a handy staff to lean on in times of adversity, a soothing balm for his conscience or a tradition to be followed.

  Meher Baba

  Adversity, Men, Different

  "The Everything and the Nothing". Book by Meher Baba, 1963.

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• All the men on my staff can type.

  Bella Abzug

  Men, He Man, Type

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• Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated.

  Howard Fineman

  Men, People, Challenges

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• Environmental policies are not just about good publicity; they are about responding to the moral imperative to address both climate change and resource depletion...A company culture that is based on measuring everything in purely financial terms will be crippled by a high turnover of staff, customers and suppliers

  Toby Robins

  Business, Environmental, Climate

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• Firms that draw commitment from customers and staff give them a way to sign up for something that can allow them to be their best self.

  John Jantsch

  Leadership, Commitment, Self

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• We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party.

  Jim C. Walton

  Party, Exercise, Organization

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• Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film

  Annette Funicello

  Stories, Film, Scouting

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• If you think you have the right to health care, you are saying basically that I am your slave. I provide health care... My staff and technicians provide it... If you have a right to health care, then you have a right to their labor.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Care, Slave

  Rand Paul's remarks at the town hall meeting in Lexington, November 2009.

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• Who should regulate the media? Who should control the press? The commentariat agonises, as if the choice was between state control through some autocratic press law or a new Press Complaints Commission redecorated with false teeth. But there is another way. Let journalists regulate themselves.... Let's have a little democracy in the media. Even in the Murdoch papers, the number of journalists who are irretrievably lawless and callous is quite small. Most of the disasters at the News of the World happened because its editors treated their staff in the style of Muammar Gaddafi.

  Neal Ascherson

  Numbers, Media, Law

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• Answer your phone. Get call forwarding. Or an answering service. Hire staff if you need to. But make sure that someone is picking up the phone when someone calls your business.

  Susan Ward

  Educational, Phones, Needs

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• You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.

  Joe Sakic

  Team, Hockey, Player

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• It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine. First and most important, my family, my friends, my staff, my cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.

  William J. Clinton

  Hurt, Apology, People

  "President: 'I have repented'" by John King, www.cnn.com. September 11, 1998.

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• Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Goodbye, Farewell, Mean

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• When I get nervous, I go to the library and hang around. The libraries are filled with people who are nervous. You can blend in with them there. You're bound to see someone more nervous than you are in a library. Sometimes the librarians themselves are more nervous than you are. I'll probably be a librarian for that reason. Then if I'm nervous on the job, it won't show. I'll just stamp books and look things up for people and run back and forth to the staff room sneaking smokes until I get hold of myself. A library is a great place to hid.

  Marijane Meaker

  Running, Jobs, Book

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• If you feel that the Chief of the General Staff talks only rubbish, my place is not here. Better to give me a command at the front where I can be of better use!

  Georgy Zhukov

  Giving, Use, Rubbish

  "Field Marshal Von Manstein, a Portrait: The Janus Head" by Marcel Stein, Gwyneth Fairbank, (p. 164), 2007.

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• Our editor came to work today in a vibrant pink shirt. Vibrant. Several members of staff have had to go home sick.

  Eddie Mair

  Home, Editors, Sick

  PM Newsletter, August 2006.

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• Your American admiral said that he held me in the highest esteem, and thought that I conducted my defense perfectly. He said through his chief of staff that my conduct was beyond reproach and he had the greatest admiration for me.

  Karl Donitz

  Defense, Admiration, Said

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, July 14, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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