George McGovern Quotes

There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.

When they talk about my job being important, I say, 'The important jobs are the ones that you'd notice if you left for a week.'

A lot of times, when you work at the top level, you feel like your part really isn't as important; you don't feel as involved in the growth.

Whatever what your job is, you want to do a job that matters.

I would consider myself one of the highest-paid job guys in history.

I just hate this term of 'essential' staff, and 'non-essential' staff.

The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work.

Get the big view of your job. Think, really think your present job is important. That next promotion depends mostly on how you think toward your present job.

It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off - and how unimportant it is when you want a raise.

Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.

Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization.

The reason that gets me is, and the greatest part of my job and what I do, is the humanity of it and there's certain moments where that really cuts through.

The vast majority of people in any organization, even quite high up, have got no idea who the real masters are.

All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.

The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.

Leadership starts at the top.

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.

Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.

A network marketing business is based upon the leaders pulling people up, while a traditional corporate or government business is based upon only promoting a few and keeping the masses of employees content with a steady paycheck.

Nothing makes my buttocks clench tighter and my teeth itch more than 'Full Time Mummy'. Full time mummy is not a job title. It is a biological status.

I don't read newspapers in the morning. I take a look at the dailies in the afternoon, but only when I've finished my work for the day. Reading about what is happening in Turkey once again would only be demoralizing for me.

Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.

I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.