Lois Wyse Quotes

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• A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

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  Life, Friendship, Best Friend

  Lois Wyse (1996). “Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration”

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• If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.

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  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

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  Inspirational, Sorry, Women

  "The Rules According to Dee Dee Myers". Interview With Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, content.time.com. February 29, 2008.

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• If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.

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  Business, Talking, Add

  Lois Wyse (1984). “The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One”, Fawcett Books

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• All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.

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  Friendship, True Friend, Ifs

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• A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

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  Mother, Children, Grandma

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.9, Harmony

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• The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is possible to avoid saying either.

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  Inspirational, Negotiation, Dangerous

  "Company Manners: An Insider Tells How to Succeed in the Real World of Corporate Protocol and Power Politics". Book by Lois Wyse. Cited in "QFinance: The Ultimate Resource", p.1809, 2009.

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• Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

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  Fear, Pessimism, Born

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• The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.

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  Change, Ideas, People

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• Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

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  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony

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• Love is a great glue, but there is no cement like mutual hate.

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  Hate, Love Is, Glue

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• Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.

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  Friendship, Differences, Together

  Lois Wyse (1996). “Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration”

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• A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.

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  Writing, Quiet Moments, Waiting

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• Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

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  Birthday, Reality, Age

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony

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• there is no noise louder than a silent phone.

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  Phones, Waiting, Noise

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• No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.

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  Jobs, Work, Real

  Lois Wyse (1984). “The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One”, Fawcett Books

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• For all of us, whether we walk old paths or blaze new trails, friends remain important.

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  Important, Path, Trails

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• 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.

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  Believe, Cities, Keys

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• It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.

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  Marriage, Long, Firsts

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• 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.

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  Advice, May, Like Me

  Lois Wyse (1984). “The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One”, Fawcett Books

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• ... letters freeze time for us, eternalizing shared experiences so we can go back and draw strength from them. Letters are like deposits in a secret bank that can be withdrawn when they are needed. And as we look back in love, we appreciate anew the thought and time that was taken to express those feelings.

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  Taken, Appreciate, Feelings

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• I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.

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  Daughter, Mother, Half

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.24, Harmony

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• Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.

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  Grandmother, Details, Want

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.35, Harmony

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

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  Children, Remember, Forget

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• Nothing is more stylish than power.

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  Power, Stylish

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Company Manners: How to Behave in the Workplace in the 90s”, p.15, Crown Business

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