Margaret Heffernan Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“All businesses and jobs depend on a vast number of people, often unnoticed and unthanked, without which nothing really gets done. They are all human and deserve respect and gratitude.”

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

“As a mother, I work hard every day and I expect that work to be recognized and appreciated. Because I work for and with human beings, sometimes they're grateful and sometimes they aren't.”

“Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are so many other people and issues to think about. But being present makes you effective.”

“British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.”

“It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.”

“One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.”

“Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.”

“The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.”

“The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.”