"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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Source : "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.

Lois Wyse

#Inspirational Quotes #Dangerous Quotes

“Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and heat of the Amazon? Why does he stagger his mind with the mathematics of the sky? Once the question mark has arisen in the human brain the answer must be found, if it takes a hundred years. A thousand years.”
“Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.”
“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.”
“Death is the quiet haven of us all.”
“Screw it, just do it!”
“No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument - the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American. And nobody will ever say "Heil" to him, nor will they call him "Führer" or "Duce." But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of "O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!"”

Source : "Watchdogs of Democracy? : The Waning Washington Press Corps and How it Has Failed the Public" by Helen Thomas, (p. 172), 2006.
“It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.”
“I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.”

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