Always hire people who are ...

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.
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.
 Lois Wyse

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
 Sam Walton
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

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Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
 Lois Wyse
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.
 Lois Wyse
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.
 Lois Wyse
Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.
 Lois Wyse
Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.
 Lois Wyse