Staff Quotes - Page 21

• I need money. I have a staff of 30, and four houses, never mind the government, to support.

  Bob Hope

  Government, House, Support

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• Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.

  Albert Speer

  Improvement, Workplace, Factories

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• The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his consumption also undergoes a specialisation as regards the quality of the goods consumed. He consumes freely and of the best, in food, drink, narcotics, shelter, services, ornaments, apparel, weapons and accoutrements, amusements, amulets, and idols or divinities.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Idols, Gentleman, Quality

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer”, p.48, e-artnow

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• MBA students come out with: 'My staff is my most important asset.' Bullshit. Staff is usually your biggest cost. We all employ some lazy bastards who needs a kick up the backside, but no one can bring themselves to admit it.

  Michael O'Leary

  Mba, Bullshit, Lazy

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• To place any dependence upon Militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff ... If I was called upon to declare upon Oath , whether the Militia have been most serviceable or hurtful upon the whole; I should subscribe to the latter.

  George Washington

  Broken, Hurtful, Should

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• One Chief Astronaut used to make a point of phoning the front desk at the clinic where applicants are sent for medical testing, to find out which ones treated the staff well-and which ones stood out in a bad way. The nurses and clinic staff have seen a whole lot of astronauts over the years, and they know what the wrong stuff looks like. A person with a superiority complex might unwittingly, right there in the waiting room, quash his or her chances of ever going to space.

  Chris Hadfield

  Space, Waiting Rooms, Years

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• For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

  Thomas Tusser

  Years, Shining, Age

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• I would use the power of procurement, I would say if you want to do business with the mayor of London, you must pay your staff a London Living Wage.

  Sadiq Khan

  Use, Want, Pay

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• These kinds of tragedies [like shooting in Fort Lauderdale] have happened too often during the eight years that I've been president. The pain, the grief, the shock that they must be going through is enormous. I've asked me staff to reach out to the mayor down there and make sure that coordination between the state and local officials is what it should be. But I think we'll find out over the next 24 hours exactly how this happened and what motivated this individual.

  Barack Obama

  Pain, Grief, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.

  Bart Gordon

  Office, Tennessee, Facts

  "Tennessee Rep. Bart Gordon (D) To Retire". www.realclearpolitics.com. December 14, 2009.

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• In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map, Libya was stable, Egypt was peaceful, Iraq was seeing really a big, big reduction in violence, Iran was being choked by sanctions, Syria was somewhat under control. After four years of Hillary Clinton, what do we have? ISIS has spread across the region and the entire world. Libya is in ruins and our ambassador and his staff were left helpless to die at the hands of savage killers. Egypt was turned over to the radical Muslim Brotherhood, forcing the military to retake control. Iraq is in chaos. Iran is on the path to nuclear weapons.

  Donald Trump

  Military, Iraq, Egypt

  Donald Trump's Acceptance Speech at the Republican Convention, time.com. July 22, 2016.

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• The CEO's job is always about leadership. It's about leadership in a vision, in terms of where you're going, it's about making sure that you have the right organization and staff, and that you have kind of clearly communicated what some of the plays are and what some of the goals are in terms of the business and how do you organize together in order to make that happen.

  Reid Hoffman

  Jobs, Order, Play

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Two hours on television just doesn't automatically happen. I'm up early, I'm reading newspapers online, talking to my staff, coming up with ideas.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Reading, Talking, Ideas

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• [The White House staff] start bringing in their kids, who you think should be babies and now are in second grade or something, and you've watched them grow up. So I think what ends up happening is you end up maintaining those networks and those contacts, but the concentrated interactions and experience that you have here, I don't think, I don't expect you can duplicate anyplace else.

  Barack Obama

  Baby, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I have a great staff at the church; they protect me and allow me to focus on more of what I do best.

  Max Lucado

  Focus, Church, Protect

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.

  Barack Obama

  Senior, Farewell, Dinner

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• In crisis times, it's actually not more difficult to motivate your staff, because everyone gets much more focused on how they control their own economic destiny. So, what you do is you have clear communication, which is always a good leadership technique, and you talk about how you can build something good and strong in the future, and how you can work together in order to do that.

  Reid Hoffman

  Strong, Communication, Destiny

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth.

  Elliott Abrams

  Talking, White, House

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• When I was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I would still have junior officers brief me. Usually these people knew more about the subject we were discussing than I did. I had to make sure that they felt confident enough to tell me everything they believed.

  Colin Powell

  People, Juniors, Joints

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I, more than anything, obviously the presidency is the people, and it's been interesting the emotions in the last few months. What you realize is that you may never have the team that is together in the same way, under the same pressures, and the attachments that you make to folks from your chief of staff down to.

  Barack Obama

  Team, Attachment, Interesting

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.

  Bulent Ecevit

  Army, Ataturk, Turkish

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• The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

  Fred Barnes

  Giving Up, Winning, Media

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• My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

  Arthur Blank

  Jobs, Player, Agency

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• I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.

  Pat Summitt

  Team, Thinking, Coaching

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I went to many coaching clinics, talked to other coaches, read articles, books, etc. Anything I could do that would help me prepare to be the best coach possible. Fortunately, the coaches I had as a player were good men and were excellent role models in setting priorities and relating to the team members and coaching staff.

  LaVell Edwards

  Team, Book, Player

  Source: universe.byu.edu

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