A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
The office building is a building for work, organization, lucidity and economy. Light, spacious working rooms, clearly arranged, undivided, only organized according to the pattern of the firm.
No one needs a word processor if he has an efficient secretary.
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.
Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.
You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.
Staples are only good if they truly suit our lifestyle.
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.
The "paperless office" is a bad idea because paper is one of the most useful and valuable media ever invented. "On paper" is a good place for information you want to use; a bad place for information you want to store.
I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.
I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.
I work in the house next to where I live. We bought a smaller house that I use as my office and the place where my two employees work... We've got tens of thousands of letters from kids stored all over the house in places you would usually put dishes and other things like that.
I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.
In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.
The whole working-in-an-office thing was a dream for me - I never get to do it! I'm secretly very organised and obsessed with stationery, especially staplers and post-its, which I know is a little weird.
