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Quotes About Office

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~ Sarah Mlynowski
Lately...the Peter Principle has given way to the Dilbert Principle. The basic concept of the Dilbert Principle is that the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.
~ Scott Adams
The deep-cover team had chosen the apartment building because it was the biggest along Feaver's route to and from the office. Large was better, more an ominous. Living undercover, she was supposed to avoid making new acquaintances, since even the friendliest inquiries my trip you up
~ Scott Turow
No man who ever held the office of President would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. He will make one man ungrateful, and a hundred men his enemies, for every office he can bestow.
~ John Adams
But my Country has in its Wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant Office that ever the invention of Man contrived or his Imagination conceived: and as I can do neither good nor Evil, I must be borne away by Others and meet the common Fate.
~ John Adams
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
~ John Adams
My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office [the vice-presidency] that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate.
~ John Adams
Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.
~ John Ashbery
The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.
~ John C. Calhoun
My family has never suggested to me that my identity or value to them depended on my station in life. I knew that they did not consider me any more or less valuable because I held some political office. They valued me as a husband and father, whether or not I won an election. Nor did they regard holding office on Capitol Hill or in the Missouri statehouse as the epitome of success. Quite the contrary, my family had endured numerous personal sacrifices because of my public positions.
~ John David Ashcroft
You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.
~ John Dean
hear you don't believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
~ John Dewey
I cannot for the life of me understand what the Minister Of Transport does every day. He goes to the office at 9am and leaves at 5pm and the traffic in London is still horrendous.
~ Delia Smith
Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.
~ Glen Duncan
A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
~ William Hazlitt
We haven't had an office open to the public for at least ten years," he answered. "And if I want to complain?" "You do it by telephone." "And if I want to spit in someone's face?" He advised me politely to try the office in Via Confienza, a hundred yards farther on.
~ Elena Ferrante
To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it.
~ Elena Kagan
Always remember… that when you go into an attorney's office door, you will have to pay for it, first or last.
~ Anthony Trollope
A person who says his expertise lies in selling only a particular product, but for other products someone else of their team has the capability to makes sales; is actually playing office politics in spite of the management considering him consistently the star performer in the organisation.
~ Anuj Somany
An effective way to stay happier & for longer tenure in a private organization is either to play dirty office politics everyday or to do work only that much what seniors say but never creative/take initiative and remain fool forever.
~ Anuj Somany
Asses with two feet who can play dirty office politics and lick the boots of their seniors and bosses gets often the promotion and high position in the private organization.
~ Anuj Somany
The more a person talks about politics or politicians at the workplace, the more s/he tends to play office politics and snatch other employee's credit to own profit.
~ Anuj Somany
FWAs increase retention/reduce turnover. The telecommuters in Bloom's study quit their jobs at about half the rate of their peers in the office.
~ Armin A. Brott
Too many actors have run for office. There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified.
~ James Garner