Margaret Heffernan Quotes

Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are.

Margaret Heffernan

• Business
• Attention

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• One of the most effective tools in Brazil's efforts to eradicate slavery is a register compiled by the government that lists individuals and businesses found using slave labor. Those on the 'dirty list,' as the register is known, are fined and remain on it for a minimum of two years during which they cannot access public funds.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Government
  • Slavery
  • Dirty

• Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Science
  • Engineering

• I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Doctor

• Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Used
  • Furniture
  • Meant To Be

• I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Good
  • Family
  • Happy

• You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • You
  • Know
  • Selfish

• To be sure, ASPM isn't the gene responsible for building big brains - there's no such single gene. But it's critical to the process, and the primate line has almost certainly benefited from distinct changes in ASPM.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Single
  • Process
  • Building

• The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Lost
  • Story
  • Difficult

• 'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Good
  • Work
  • May

• What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Best
  • Ideas

• What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • America
  • Best
  • Failure

• When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Moving
  • Look
  • September

• Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Inside
  • Size
  • Glass

• Your belief system saturates the space around you.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • You
  • Space
  • Belief

• The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Basketball

• Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Islam
  • Stable
  • Ordered

• That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Work
  • Team

• I always accessorize with jewelry. I am a bit of a magpie; I love sparkles, and so wearing jewelry makes me feel more exciting and confident, too!

  

  Amber Le Bon
  • Jewelry

• My career, I think, indicates I'm not afraid of anything.

  

  Jeanine Pirro
  • Career

• My job, originally, was to write blog posts for their 'HubSpot' blog. They have a business model built on content. Then I was writing e-books for them, and after I came back from L.A., they had this new plan to launch a podcast.

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Job

• When you're with a bunch of loud 20-year-olds, if you're on a movie and everybody is a lot younger than you and they want you to go to a club, I'm not very comfortable in that situation. I've been on movies when everybody goes out to some loud place. I don't know; I'm not comfortable.

  

  Margo Martindale
  • Movie

• There are a lot of actors that are insanely talented, so I don't say who my favorite is anymore.

  

  Max Thieriot

• Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are.

  

  Margaret Heffernan
  • Business
  • Attention