Staff Quotes - Page 25

• What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.

  Arthur Laffer

  Christmas, Father, Government

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• Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition. For example, the elders of the Kikuyu carried a staff from the thigi tree that, when placed between two disputing sides, caused them to stop fighting and seek reconciliation. Many communities in Africa have these traditions.

  Wangari Maathai

  Fighting, Two, Community

  Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff. I can indicate impatience by drumming on tabletops and I can wrap up a meeting with a few choice clatters.

  Marian Keyes

  Choices, Nails, Different

  Marian Keyes (2005). “The Other Side of the Story”, p.57, Penguin UK

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• Incidentally, it's best not to argue with the nursing staff. I find the best course of action is to throw some chocolates in one direction and hurry off in the other while their attention is distracted.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nursing, One Direction, Chocolate

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• Training should not be confined to trainees. It should be a continuous process, and should include the entire professional staff of the agency. The more our people learn, the more useful they can be to our clients.

  David Ogilvy

  Agency, People, Training

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• Setting customer expectations at a level that is aligned with consistently deliverable levels of customer service requires that your whole staff, from product development to marketing, works in harmony with your brand image.

  Richard Branson

  Educational, Expectations, Inspire

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• Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

  James Russell Lowell

  Bravery, Literature, Weak

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• I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.

  Anthony Bourdain

  People, Abuse, Fans

  "Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook". Book by Anthony Bourdain, 2010.

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• Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the librarians who staff them, add immeasurably to our quality of life.

  George W. Bush

  People, Age, Library

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• We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.

  Stephen Charnock

  Comfort, Strikes

  Stephen Charnock (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.678

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• My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.

  Michael Symon

  Family, Thanksgiving, Holiday

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• know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain,
  You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin'.
  And the stresses of life can take you off the right path,
  Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff...
  We gotta hold it down so we can move on past
  All adversities, so we can get through fast.

  Q-Tip

  Stress, Rap, Moving

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• If you're good to your staff when things are going well, they'll rally when times go bad.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Bad Times, Wells, Ifs

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• There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Thinking, Kitchen, Chef

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• Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that's different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I'm going to be a better chef.

  Thomas Keller

  Energy, Different, Faces

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• A dead body was discovered this week on the grounds of a country estate owned by Queen Elizabeth. The queen said today she hopes this serves as a reminder to anybody on her staff that there is a right way and a wrong way to polish sterling silver.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Queens, Body

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