Office Management Quotes

I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills.

I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.

Anything my staff does in my office is pursuant to congressional rules.

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

I don't believe I should be out running for another office instead of running my office.

What's the point in having a company of secretaries?

It's easier to run for office than to run the office.

Once I graduated college, I did a couple of different sort of unique internship positions, if you will. I spent three months in my mother's office, who was then the CEO of our company, and I really got to just sit in every meeting that she had, and I would write down questions on a yellow legal pad.

I always enjoyed politics. I worked at the White House recently, primarily for the First Lady. Because of my experience running my travel agency, I was in charge of the files she kept on the Travel Office.

When you go into your customary barber shop, you will wait for the man who gives you a little better shave, a little trimmer hair-cut. Business leaders are looking for the same things in their offices that you look for in the barber shop.

Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.

Our offices must always be headed by the kind of men who command respect. Not phonies, zeros or bastards.

The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one

I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.

Pontiac ... keeps two secretaries, one to write for him, and the other to read the letters he receives, and he manages them so as to keep each of them ignorant of what is transacted by the other.

You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.

I have seen cabinet secretaries who type with two fingers.

My dad was a civil servant, and my mum was a secretary.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. He becomes fussy about filing, keen on seeing that pencils are sharpened, eager to ensure that the windows are open (or shut) and apt to use two or three different-colored inks.

My business partner and make-up artist Kim Jacob and I have employed every member of staff, decided where every desk in the office should go, tried every product on our faces.

When I go in, I find that it is not a lab but an office. There are a pile of letters to answer, phone numbers to call up, people waiting to have an interview, routine work that must be done.

I've been an assistant for a number of years.

After the '57 initial meeting - I was up this way working, not as a staff person - there became the need for a much more definite organized office. What you'd had prior to that time were these big meetings in different places, and there was nobody to pull anything together. Everything was left to [Martin Luther] King and the group that was around him.

One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to take care of all of them myself.

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