Letitia Baldrige Quotes

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give.

Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the world.

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

Always respect your superiors, if you have any.

Business colleagues who have not seen each other for a long time but who have a good relationship can always shake hands warmly and grab each other's right upper arm or shoulder with their free left hand. Men and women executives should not kiss each other in public.

You see a lot of talented people, but you usually don't see talented people who, behind the scenes, know how to conduct themselves on a higher level.

I was still working at Google when I wrote the blog post '10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings.' I was scared to share it at first because I didn't want my coworkers to think that I was making fun of them - which I totally was. But then afterward I had people coming up to me like, 'I have a meeting trick! Put my meeting trick in your next post!'

It's an unwritten rule that you respect people who've given you breaks. You see somebody's body of work before you take a tone with them. I will talk differently to someone with 18 years of experience and someone with 18 months.

It's very important to understand how to act in any situation.

Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.

When it came to, like, appropriate behavior towards one another, it was - I was well-versed.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Learn to work with people you wouldn't go to lunch with.

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.

Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.

Don't avoid eye contact and don't be late

In the corporate community the key word is respect. In the corporate community you don't get a relationship until they respect you first.

A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.

There's an essential order you have to follow in everything. It's a way of showing respect, following everything in the correct order.