Chairpersons

Familiar Quotations ChairmanshipsMy God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation!–Robert CliveThe ideal committee is one with me as the chairman, and two other members in bed with the flu.–Lord MilvertonThere is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.–Sam Walton Use in Literature ChairmanshipsDuring the campaign when I acted as chairman of...
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Familiar Quotations ChairmanshipsMy God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation!–Robert CliveThe ideal committee is one with me as the chairman, and two other members in bed with the flu.–Lord MilvertonThere is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.–Sam Walton Use in Literature ChairmanshipsDuring the campaign when I acted as chairman of the federation of a hundred women's organizations, nothing impressed me so forcibly as the fact that the response came from bodies of women representing the most varied traditions.–Jane Addams in Twenty Years At Hull House.It has already been mentioned that Squire Newcome was Chairman of the Overseers of the Poor.–Horatio Alger in Paul Prescott's Charge.They were brought to the chairman in a hat, and he forthwith took them out and began to count them.–Horatio Alger in The Cash Boy.A chairman, like Caesar's wife, should be above suspicion.–Grant Allen in An African Millionaire.I do not dictate to you. But as Chairman of the Golcondas, I am bound to see that the interests of widows and orphans whose All is invested with me should not suffer at this crisis.–Grant Allen in An African Millionaire.Instead of himself proposing resolutions, he might have been, what a chairman ought to be, the organ of the body over which he presides.–Charles Babbage in Decline of Science in England.The chairman, in a whisper, advised him to withdraw his resignation.–Robert Barr in The Face and the Mask.The chairman put his in his pocket, as did the others.–Robert Barr in The Face and the Mask.