Charles Babbage Quotes

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

Sloan Gibson is doing a great job. We need to give him more power to terminate employees.

I assume you know what to do with this. That's why you were hired.

We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.

If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.

I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.

An actor has no more right to be temperamental than a bank clerk.

We will also have a more rigorous approach to professional development and managing unsatisfactory performance.

No one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another .... The duties of all public officers are ... so plain and simple that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another. Offices were not established to give support to particular men at the public expense. No individual wrong is, therefore, done by removal, since neither appointment to nor continuance in office is a matter of right.

Federal officials should serve without pay.

It's been vindicating to see the reaction from lawmakers, judges, public bodies around the world, civil liberties activists who have said it's true that we have a right to at least know the broad outlines of what our government's doing in our name and what it's doing against us.

You can't satisfy everybody. I will continue to do my job until I get fired, and the only people who can fire me are my fans.

For me to do my job effectively, we need to continue to earn public confidence. That involves transparency and accountability.

Public servants should always be accountable and responsible for what they are advocating, and I challenge the American people to demand this from their representatives.

I come to work every day thinking I have to earn my job, and I really believe that. I don't have a given right to my job; I need to prove my value in my role every single day.

I have to justify my job every day.

I think processes should not differ just because you are a minister. This is a job - a responsibility - not a right to override the processes that every citizen goes through.

Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.

We are in a results business, so Stuart Pearce being a jolly old boy won't keep me in a job.

I haven't really had too many bosses. Any bad boss I had probably was because I was a bad employee.

I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.

An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.

When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.