Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it. — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down. — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it.… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
“The sooner we associate long hours and multitasking with incompetence and carelessness the better. The next time you hear boasts of executives… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Companies don't have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Companies don't have ideas; only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds and loyalty and trust they develop between each… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
All businesses and jobs depend on a vast number of people, often unnoticed and unthanked, without which nothing really gets done. They… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
I don't think a true company - one that builds sustainable value - can ever only exist online or remotely. — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
How can any company know if its processes, products, people are safe? Only if everyone is watching and telling the truth. The… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
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… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
I haven't always hated McDonald's. When my kids were little and I lived in the U.S., they were as susceptible as anyone to Happy… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and old, junior… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
“Indeed, there seems to be some evidence not only that all love is based on illusion — but that love positively requires illusion in… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are so many… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
I don't mind if the couple next to me is tense or the kids are whiny. I'd even be happy to hear an honest… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class. — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully. — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
