Lois Wyse Quotes - Page 2

Nothing is more stylish than power.

Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.

Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.

A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.

Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.

Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.

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.

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.

Power always works from the corner office.

Corporations, being only human, make mistakes. Sometimes you may end up working for one of those mistakes.

Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old.

Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.

Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.

We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.

Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

... in this impersonal world of the nine-digit zip code, credit cards, and numbered bank accounts, in this world of no marriage, late marriage, and remarriage, the operative word in office relationships is 'family.

Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.

Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.

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.