Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

Staples are only good if they truly suit our lifestyle.

No one needs a word processor if he has an efficient secretary.

Return telephone calls promptly but be judicious about the time spent on the phone.

When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?

I am here," Eric said. "And I am here." I was a little amused at Eric's phone answering technique. "Sookie, my little bullet-sucker," he said, sounding fond and warm. "Eric, my big bullshitter.

Your business should be defined, not in terms of the product or service you offer, but in terms of what customer need your product or service fulfills. While products come and go, basic needs and customer groups stay around, i.e., the need for communication, the need for transportation, etc. What market need do you supply?

If you are sad, ask yourself why you are sad. Then pick up the phone and call someone and tell him the answer to the question. If you don't know anyone, call the operator and tell him. Most people don't know that the operator has to listen, it is a law. Also, the postman is not allowed to go inside your house, but you can talk to him on public property for up to four minutes or until he wants to go, whichever comes first.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

Our phones do play to our natural nervousness about being vulnerable to each other, but that doesn't mean that we can't we can't pull ourselves together, and say - we need to talk to each because it's in conversation, the most human and humanizing thing that we do, that empathy is born, that intimacy is born, that relationship is born.

..."Good, because I need your help." "Help is my middle name." I was pretty sure she'd already told me bad was her middle name, but I kept my opinion to myself.

There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.

I sprung you because I've got a message for you" "doesn't your family own a cell phone company?" "only a little one

People want to be inspired. They want to aspire to something. ... You can have the best product, the best service, the best argument in a debate. But without the effective words you still lose. In the end you need good principles and good language if you are to succeed.

Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion that you will like to hear from me. You see, I have asked no questions, which are the torture-screws of correspondence. Hence you have nothing to answer.

You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do.

You need to be able to SHARE IDEAS, INSPIRE and MOTIVATE

Some are born who never need them, Others still who never read them, signs.

Certain things need to be said if one is to avoid falsifying the problem.

I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.

It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me.

Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?

Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.