Margaret Heffernan Quotes

• Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.

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

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

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• It is nobody’s right to be waited on and nobody’s fate to do the waiting.

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• If we aren’t going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.

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• In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.

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

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• I don’t think a true company – one that builds sustainable value – can ever only exist online or remotely.

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• Customers who have to come back and spend, or customers who just don’t want the hassle of leaving – those are the ones who are most worth attracting.

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

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• Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn’t achieved without it.

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• Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

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

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Margaret Heffernan (53)

Birth:	1955
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Businesswoman, Writer

About

Margaret Heffernan is an international businesswoman and writer. Born in Texas, raised in the Netherlands, educated at Cambridge University and now settled in the UK near the city of Bath. She is the Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Bath's School of Management and a Visiting Professor at Simmons College School of Management.

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