Mr Wyse Quotes

#1. 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.

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

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#3. Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

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#4. Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.

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#5. The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.

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

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#7. Survival must come before civilization.

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#8. 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.

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#9. Corporations, being only human, make mistakes. Sometimes you may end up working for one of those mistakes.

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#10. It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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.

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#13. 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 ...

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#14. For me, even my break time I like to pull out the bow and just go over a Vivaldi sonata and keep my head sharp, keep everything sharp.

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#15. 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.

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#16. All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.

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#17. If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.

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#18. 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.

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#19. Realize you can chase your dreams with just believing. Don't be afraid to believe in some magic; if proof not in front in of you, follow your gut.

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#20. No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.

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#21. For all of us, whether we walk old paths or blaze new trails, friends remain important.

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#22. 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.

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

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#24. Nothing is more stylish than power.

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#25. Power always works from the corner office.

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#26. There is no noise louder than a silent phone.

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#27. 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.

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#28. 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.

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#29. On the road you have to be more organized. Also, a crowd's energy helps you focus. Nothing compares to playing live. You have to slamdunk whatever you're playing. In the studio, you can do things over.

Chris Wyse

#30. 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