Louis XIV Quotes

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

It is a noble thing to make ingrates.

It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue.

The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.

At the end of the day, when you are in the front office, your tenure is dictated by the people surrounding you.

Anyplace of work where you have a cross section of work, you have mini-ecosystem. A little representation of what the planet is. You have the Alpha Dog. You have the young ones, the old ones. The pissed off one. The quiet one.

But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.

A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.

You know what a cubicle basically says? It basically says, like, 'You know what? We don't think you're smart enough for an office, but we don't want you to look at anybody.

God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents.

You also want to fire people who a) create office politics, and b) who are persistently negative.

As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they would never dominate their wives.

Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20 humorists together.

I've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.

As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.

INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra will hate him.

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.

Naturally, when a young fellow steps up into a big position, it breeds jealousy among those whom he's left behind and uneasiness among those to whom he's pulled himself up. Between them he's likely to be subjected to a lot of petty annoyances. But he's in the fix of a dog with fleas who's chasing a rabbit -- if he stops to snap at the tickling on his tail, he's going to lose his game dinner.

It's what I say all the time to my girls in the office here: The more they dress for sex, the less they will have love or sex.

If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".

I used to work in an office in New York for this terrible company, and we used to have staff meetings, and I would just count how many times the boss would use the phrase "in terms of." And he would say it like 30 or 40 times. And sometimes he would just say it. He'd be like, "Uhh, in terms of, how are we doing with that?" I realized nobody knows what they're talking about. Everyone's bullshitting. Maybe not everybody, but certainly a lot of people.

There's a difference, though, between being a political appointee and putting a political operative in charge of a U.S. attorney's office.