Lois Wyse
Lois Wyse
Lois Wysewas an American advertising executive, author and columnist. At the time of her death, Wyse was credited with writing more than 60 books on diverse topics such as business, love and family...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinesswoman
Date of Birth30 October 1926
CountryUnited States of America
believe keys cities
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.
office corners
Power always works from the corner office.
office cards credit
... 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.
business talking add
If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.
business moving people
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.
business looks should
Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.
advice may sentences
Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good - ' It never is.
inspirational book writing
Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.
dream mean childhood
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.
men taught weakness
Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
persons just-one repeats
Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.
fear pessimism born
Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.
food night years
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.
children winning views
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.