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 Life is like a run, it hurts, but what hurst makes you stronger and lets you finish
WILL 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 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 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 Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicate...
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 absolutely love spending time with my family.
KEVIN ALEJANDRO From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started openi...
KEVIN JAMES My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'
KEVIN JAMES Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.
KEVIN JAMES I really wasn't a class clown.
KEVIN JAMES I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.
KEVIN JAMES Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.
KEVIN JAMES Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the s...
KEVIN JAMES I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.
KEVIN JAMES You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.
KEVIN JAMES It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.
KEVIN JAMES I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfo...
KEVIN JAMES I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are lick...
KEVIN JAMES Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.
KEVIN JAMES I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to sa...
KEVIN JAMES Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next...
KEVIN JAMES I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
KEVIN JAMES I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
KEVIN JAMES A song can take you to a special time in your life.
KEVIN JAMES If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, '...
KEVIN JAMES I could never be James Bond.
KEVIN JAMES I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.
KEVIN JAMES I am who I am. That's why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don't change or ...
KEVIN HART Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.
KEVIN COSTNER I don't have the option of getting fat. I like to try as much of our products as I can. Our samp...
KEVIN PLANK Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that...
KEVIN CONROY True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.
KEVIN GATES Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up...
KEVIN HART Know everything about the companies and people you are going to be negotiating with. Insist on getti...
KEVIN O'LEARY Too often, politics is like bad theater. The mass media simplifies stories and personalities into th...
KEVIN HASSETT I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.
KEVIN HART I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.
KEVIN HART I like playing basketball and going to the gym. I don't box, but I'll ride my bike and go jo...
KEVIN HART I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.
KEVIN HART I took my daughter to the father-daughter dance, and I cried like a little baby.
KEVIN HART A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.
KEVIN HART Being humble matters.
KEVIN HART You get one life. I'm going to embrace mine.
KEVIN HART My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.
KEVIN HART Everybody that's successful lays a blueprint out.
KEVIN HART People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.
KEVIN HART I didn't work hard to sit down and not work.
KEVIN HART I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.
KEVIN HART It's a well-known fact that tall people are evil.
KEVIN HART My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.
KEVIN HART I don't care how busy I am - I will always make time for what's most important to me.
KEVIN HART No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you're staying in a small box with a smal...
KEVIN HART I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in pr...
KEVIN GATES I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I'm in.
KEVIN GATES I don't sleep much. I don't sleep much - I work, I work, I work.
KEVIN GATES Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.
KEVIN GATES I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose... I know what my job is. And I alway...
KEVIN GATES I like Peter Tosh, Bob Marley of course. All of Capleton, Sizzla, Frisco Kid, Buju Banton.
KEVIN GATES What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever - I rap about...
KEVIN GATES I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.
KEVIN GATES I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don't have any flaws.
KEVIN GATES Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way ...
KEVIN GATES The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don't really know me. You just ...
KEVIN GATES I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I'm just a cold-blooded investigator.
KEVIN GATES I look at other people's lives, and some people feel like they're too old to play with toys....
KEVIN GATES I'm super serious about music. That's, like, the only thing I'm serious about.
KEVIN GATES I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every pro...
KEVIN GATES Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.
KEVIN GATES I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.
KEVIN GATES I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.
KEVIN GATES I don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.
KEVIN GATES I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem.
KEVIN GATES When you stand for something, you've got to stand for it all the way, not half way.
KEVIN GATES The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.
KEVIN HART I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. Th...
KEVIN GARNETT If you want a friend, buy a dog.
KEVIN O'LEARY The Constitution's Preamble, its renowned introductory passage, was written by a man with a peg-...
KEVIN BLEYER Get up, groan, write a bit, moan, eat breakfast, write some more, cycle my bike through the Sligo hi...
KEVIN BARRY When somebody asks for a favor involving information, if you don't know him or can't verify ...
KEVIN MITNICK In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, 'Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with...
KEVIN HART The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you've ...
KEVIN HART My worst fashion faux pas: probably orange shoes with white pants. I thought I looked spectacular.
KEVIN O'LEARY Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
KEVIN JAMES Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of informati...
KEVIN MITNICK Walking is my main method of relaxation. I don't go over my lines or try to solve the world'...
KEVIN WHATELY What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful futur...
KEVIN WILLIAMSON I'm an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I'll go stand in the corner...
KEVIN GATES I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances...
KEVIN COSTNER When you're an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investm...
KEVIN O'LEARY Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefe...
KEVIN O'LEARY Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance...
KEVIN FEIGE To research my book 'Me the People' - in which I have rewritten the entire Constitution of t...
KEVIN BLEYER Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.
KEVIN MCCARTHY When you're travelling, your day is jam-packed. I just don't have time to whip out a PC all ...
KEVIN O'LEARY You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people wil...
KEVIN SMITH My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay...
KEVIN PLANK I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.
KEVIN COSTNER I would rather eat broken glass and drink iodine than do the dishes.
KEVIN CANTY I used to go to the Hollywood YMCA when I first came here, and I was standing in front of the mirror...
KEVIN NEALON A wide variety of devices beyond personal computers are arriving, many of which will be used to brow...
KEVIN LYNCH When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get ...
KEVIN HART I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid's a hard worker, ...
KEVIN HART I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.
KEVIN SPACEY I am now a commander of the British Empire.
KEVIN SPACEY I've always been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinati...
KEVIN KWAN I'm so lucky that 'The Vampire Diaries' happened. I'm so lucky that Warner Bros. pay...
KEVIN WILLIAMSON I'm a health nut, but when I eat, I go hard. I'm a Buffalo wing magnet, a sandwich fanatic, ...
KEVIN HART No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you're going to bump into somebody that make...
KEVIN HART Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries.
KEVIN KEEGAN 'X-Men 1' - I did a cameo.
KEVIN FEIGE Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are ...
KEVIN SPACEY My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm...
KEVIN DURANT I've had to calm down, I have a kid! It is amazing. It's the best thing ever. Nothing better...
KEVIN PIETERSEN I think a book is your calling card, your business card.
KEVIN O'LEARY Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.
KEVIN SMITH As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.
KEVIN MCCARTHY I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo...
KEVIN MCCARTHY There's nothing you can do about busted ribs. You just have to wait for them to pop back into pl...
KEVIN MCCLOUD I would also would have liked the part of the Bus Driver.
KEVIN MCDONALD Sports exact too harsh a toll on our beautiful women. Like engendered species, they should be protec...
KEVIN BLEYER I think a cyber-terrorism attack is overblown, though the threat exists. I think al Qaeda and other ...
KEVIN MITNICK You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don...
KEVIN SORBO All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent...
KEVIN MITNICK I've always been into bodybuilding and keeping in shape, and I just challenge myself to see if I...
KEVIN NASH It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids w...
KEVIN RICHARDSON I don't want to be characterized as the big booster guy.
KEVIN PLANK I still remember going to a smart restaurant in Los Angeles, and the maitre d' knew my name and ...
KEVIN WHATELY But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of...
KEVIN KELLY A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or euca...
KEVIN STARR My favorite personal hockey moment was probably when Mike Bossy scored fifty goals in fifty games. H...
KEVIN CONNOLLY Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.
KEVIN PLANK But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of ce...
KEVIN KELLY Managing bottom-up change is its own art.
KEVIN KELLY No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.
KEVIN SPACEY I don't think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world's face. That&#...
KEVIN HART I'm not a guy that's going to brag or feel like I'm better than the group.
KEVIN DURANT I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. ...
KEVIN SPACEY My brothers’ faces haunt me. I hear their children, my nieces and nephews, asking me why I came ho...
KEVIN WALLIS Brands are all about trust. That trust is built in drops and lost in buckets.
KEVIN PLANK Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you dri...
KEVIN WILSON One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together...
KEVIN ROSE ...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that...
KEVIN BROCKMEIER Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around.
KEVIN HEARNE To work best democracy needs a diversity of thoughts, ideas and expression. This is only possible wi...
KEVIN STIRTZ Aside from cutting off her head, though, I didn't really mean to kill her."
Granuaile laughed. ...
KEVIN HEARNE I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
KEVIN SPACEY I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wan...
KEVIN KLINE I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians.....
KEVIN COSTNER Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous th...
KEVIN BACON Swallowing that chocolate you just ate
May have been your fatal mistake!
Your smooth complexio...
KEVIN MISSEN The Democrats think Republicans are stealing elections. The Republicans think Democrats are stealing...
KEVIN ZEESE IODA is excited at the opportunity to distribute the vast catalog of the China Record Corporation, ....
KEVIN ARNOLD That's got to be the ultimate goal, ... that's what everybody wants to see done in the end.
KEVIN ARNOLD I think [the digital services] will be pushing the majors to get it done in the next few years,
KEVIN ARNOLD Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want ...
KEVIN ARNOLD In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
KEVIN ARNOLD The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler ...
KEVIN PATTERSON There is no accounting for taste and no taste for accounting.
KEVIN BYRNE I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.
KEVIN ROSE