Lois Wyse Quotes
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I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.
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The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is possible to avoid saying either.
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Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.
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Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.
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Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
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Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.
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Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.
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Nothing is more stylish than power.
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It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.
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All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.
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Survival must come before civilization.
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Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.
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For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.
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If you are hired to shake up the system, do it. No one will believe you're the boss until you do one or more of the following: 1. Add a new division; 2. Lop off a present department; 3. Add new people or reassign and reward present employees; 4. Get rid of deadwood; 5. Change the method of accounting; 6. Change lawyers, accountants, or other outside services; 7. Ask a lot of questions, and demand answers by a certain date; 8. Get in touch with key people in your industry or city and arrange personal meetings; 9. Improve working conditions; 10. Update present benefit plans.
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Corporations, being only human, make mistakes. Sometimes you may end up working for one of those mistakes.
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Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.
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Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.
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A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
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Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.
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A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.
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Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.
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Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.
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Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.