Margaret Heffernan Quote

Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bea...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its lea...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

All businesses and jobs depend on a vast number of people, often unnoticed and unthanked, without wh...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. The...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can fee...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometime...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the f...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Customers who have to come back and spend, or customers who just don't want the hassle of leavin...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is to...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and tr...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Research shows that when we read words on paper, it reduces our stress levels by nearly 70 percent. ...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

If I have to spend a lot of time on planes, I try to think of this as time off. In certain ways, it&...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

I haven't always hated McDonald's. When my kids were little and I lived in the U.S., they we...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Everywhere I look, there are ads marking Mother's Day. Mostly they conform to stereotype: flower...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to t...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what ...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Everyone I know feels harassed by email which has invaded their waking and sleeping hours.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the m...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less abou...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of peop...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have treme...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with ...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or ch...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

I don't mind if the couple next to me is tense or the kids are whiny. I'd even be happy to h...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies ...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Every organization has issues and concerns which are known about by many people who choose to remain...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

As a mother, I work hard every day and I expect that work to be recognized and appreciated. Because ...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hid...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

according to the psychologist irving Janis, is that our sense of belonging (which makes us feel safe...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Who defines us: Our employers or ourselves?
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

I went to law school after college.
KEVIN HEFFERNAN

Life is like a run, it hurts, but what hurst makes you stronger and lets you finish
WILL HEFFERNAN

The trucking companies are also tacking on extra charges to us for their increased gas expenses. So,...
BOB HEFFERNAN

You can't charge more for flowers when the guy across the street isn't raising his prices over the e...
BOB HEFFERNAN

Today, we estimate that the true cost of those deliveries is now at least $10 to $11. I sent out a n...
BOB HEFFERNAN

We shouldn't confuse grief over the passing of our favorite technology with resentment because some ...
VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same...
MARGARET CHO

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to ...
MARGARET MEAD

I'm pretty casual. I love Free People and small vintage boutiques.
MARGARET QUALLEY

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
MARGARET FULLER

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
MARGARET THATCHER

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
MARGARET THATCHER

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. An...
MARGARET THATCHER

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not alway...
MARGARET THATCHER

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
MARGARET THATCHER

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
MARGARET THATCHER

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
MARGARET THATCHER

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it fu...
MARGARET THATCHER

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both ...
MARGARET THATCHER

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
MARGARET THATCHER

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing...
MARGARET THATCHER

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those ...
MARGARET CAVENDISH

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
MARGARET MEAD

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
MARGARET MEAD

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil a...
MARGARET MEAD

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home...
MARGARET MEAD

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. ...
MARGARET MEAD

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
MARGARET MEAD

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare ...
MARGARET MEAD

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be wom...
MARGARET MEAD

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern son...
MARGARET WALKER

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you ...
MARGARET WALKER

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
MARGARET WALKER

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
MARGARET MEAD

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
MARGARET SMITH

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
MARGARET THATCHER

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
MARGARET THATCHER

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
MARGARET ATWOOD

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an ...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know wh...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they wa...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that.
MARGARET SPELLINGS

There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.
MARGARET SPELLINGS

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
MARGARET SPELLINGS

I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
MARGARET SPELLINGS

We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civ...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holdi...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountabil...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 ...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share t...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educa...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.
MARGARET SPELLINGS

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.
MARGARET SPELLINGS

Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of eve...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special educat...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particular...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling r...
MARGARET WALKER

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
MARGARET ATWOOD

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schiz...
MARGARET ATWOOD

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
MARGARET THATCHER

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many...
MARGARET ATWOOD

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
MARGARET THATCHER

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good w...
MARGARET THATCHER

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
MARGARET ATWOOD

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space be...
MARGARET ATWOOD

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did,...
MARGARET ATWOOD

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
MARGARET ATWOOD

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come wit...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no yo...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no w...
MARGARET MITCHELL

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.
MARGARET MITCHELL

My dear, I don't give a damn.
MARGARET MITCHELL

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
MARGARET MITCHELL

So you are a vampire."

"I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a commo...
MARGARET STOHL

Don't let the bastards grind you down.
MARGARET ATWOOD

When you can't tell the difference between your own pleasure and your pain then you're an addict.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
MARGARET FULLER

Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, they should not be accepted, voluntar...
MARGARET MEAD

I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who a...
MARGARET CHO

At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials,...
MARGARET CHAN

Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let...
MARGARET BECKETT

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you...
MARGARET THATCHER

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
MARGARET ANDERSON

It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my st...
MARGARET GELLER

You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, ev...
MARGARET WEIS

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and lea...
MARGARET THATCHER

This lady is not for turning.
MARGARET THATCHER

Once upon a time you could wander around one country, then the next and then maybe you'd go to Engla...
MARGARET ATWOOD

They've removed anything you can tie a rope to.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all...
MARGARET ATWOOD

No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.
MARGARET ATWOOD

The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
MARGARET THATCHER

I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and fla...
MARGARET ANDERSON

I think, to give our bookshelf a little credit, our area of the library and the bookstore has attrac...
MARGARET STOHL

There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hot...
MARGARET STOHL

The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.
MARGARET THATCHER

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affa...
MARGARET THATCHER

Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
MARGARET FULLER

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.
MARGARET LINDSEY

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
MARGARET FULLER

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth a...
MARGARET CHO

Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. ...
MARGARET THATCHER

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
MARGARET THATCHER

Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is the tigress and lioness in yo...
MARGARET THATCHER

Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you c...
MARGARET ATWOOD

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any g...
MARGARET MEAD

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.
MARGARET MITCHELL

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.
MARGARET MEAD

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself t...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.
MARGARET THATCHER

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not al...
MARGARET THATCHER

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
MARGARET THATCHER

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all ...
MARGARET THATCHER

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.
MARGARET VALOIS

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is t...
MARGARET MEAD

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.
MARGARET MEAD

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilizati...
MARGARET MEAD

Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories,...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
MARGARET MEAD

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
MARGARET THATCHER

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
MARGARET MEAD

Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.
MARGARET MEAD

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's ...
MARGARET MEAD

Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything.
MARGARET MEAD

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
MARGARET MEAD

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any ...
MARGARET MEAD

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
MARGARET MEAD

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamu...
MARGARET MEAD

Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle ...
MARGARET WEIS

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher.
MARGARET THATCHER

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied t...
MARGARET THATCHER

It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marchin...
MARGARET THATCHER

In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
MARGARET THATCHER

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER

Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and pla...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
MARGARET THATCHER

Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own ...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it i...
MARGARET MEAD

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
MARGARET MEAD

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind eve...
MARGARET ATWOOD

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed an...
MARGARET ATWOOD

I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until yo...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER

If i thought this would never happen again I would die.
But this is wrong, nobody dies from lac...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
MARGARET MITCHELL

Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.

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Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.

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