Lois Wyse Quotes & Sayings

Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends. — Lois Wyse

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

Power always works from the corner office. — Lois Wyse

Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better. — Lois Wyse

Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism. — Lois Wyse

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

There is no noise louder than a silent phone. — 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

Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused. — Lois Wyse

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. — Lois Wyse

All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life. — Lois Wyse

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. — Lois Wyse

Nothing is more stylish than power. — Lois Wyse

Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person. — Lois Wyse

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

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 ... — Lois Wyse

We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society. — 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

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. — Lois Wyse

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. — Lois Wyse

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. — Lois Wyse

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book. — Lois Wyse

Survival must come before civilization. — Lois Wyse

Love is a great glue, but there is no cement like mutual hate. — Lois Wyse

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. — Lois Wyse

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

Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old. — Lois Wyse

The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas. — Lois Wyse

Corporations, being only human, make mistakes. Sometimes you may end up working for one of those mistakes. — Lois Wyse

So many television marriages -
that playing out of lives against a
background of the tube.
Instead of two lives filing the room,
There are their two lives and the eleven o'clock news with
Constant commercial interruption.
Instead of what you say and what I say.
You don't laugh with me;
I don't laugh with you.
All the wit comes pouring out of the tube.
And we laugh at it together.
The more we avoid talking
the more passive the relationship becomes.
Television permits us to walk through life
with minor speaking parts.
And the more we fail to speak,
the more difficult speaking becomes — Lois Wyse

Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit. — Lois Wyse

So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love. — Lois Wyse

Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned. — Lois Wyse

Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes. — Lois Wyse

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

If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking. — Lois Wyse

Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked. — Lois Wyse

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. — Lois Wyse

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. — Lois Wyse

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. — Lois Wyse

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. — Lois Wyse

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

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

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. — Lois Wyse

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. — Lois Wyse

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