Administrative Tasks Quotes

White Collar Workers

Our two greatest problems are gravity and paper work. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

The protocol things, the officialdom, are part of my work. But it doesn't take more than 20 percent of my time. The majority of my time I spend on issues that I care about.

I’m still trying to figure out what a Lieutenant Governor is supposed to do.

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

After only two or three weeks in office, we discovered we had a backlog of 100,000 emails sent to me. We had a backlog of a thousand invitations to speak at places all over the country - and all over the world, for that matter.

I've missed the association with players and coaches but haven't missed the recruiting and the travel.

Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.

As PM, you have got to do everything from chairing the Cabinet to ceremonial things. You have also got to do the nitty gritty. I do get stuck into the detail.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam, I’m not running the country. I visit the country to inspect development programs, to inspect activities, to see how things are going, how the government agenda is being implemented, what are the teething issues. And some of these problems simply need my simple word. My simple word of do it, then it is done.

A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.

I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

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

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

I can see how paperwork and foolishness can destroy something.

It's been interesting for me because when I served in government before, I served in the White House. This time, I ended up serving in an agency, and it just made me respect and admire how much happens and that happens every day with people who don't even know all the work that's going on.

Paperwork will ruin any military force.

If all I did was answer the correspondence I get, that would be my job.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

Most people don't realize the amount of tax forms the small business guy has to go through.

It's the business I'm in, I can't say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved.

I don't really understand how to do bureaucratic things - school-system things.

Government has much wider dimensions than merely managing an economy.