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"I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes."
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"It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day."

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"Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers."

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"I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts."


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"I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes."
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