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…

— Lois Wyse

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted…

— Lois Wyse

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

— Lois Wyse

Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

— Lois Wyse

... letters freeze time for us, eternalizing shared experiences so we can go back and draw strength from them. Letters are like…

— Lois Wyse

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

— Lois Wyse

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

— Lois Wyse

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

— Lois Wyse

I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half…

— 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…

— 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…

— Lois Wyse

Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.

— 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…

— Lois Wyse

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

— Lois Wyse

... in this impersonal world of the nine-digit zip code, credit cards, and numbered bank accounts, in this world of no marriage,…

— Lois Wyse

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

— 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…

— Lois Wyse

“While motherhood may indeed require a woman who says 'yes', grandmotherhood does not.”

— Lois Wyse

“So many television marriages - that playing out of lives against a background of the tube. Instead of two lives filing the…

— Lois Wyse

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

— 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…

— Lois Wyse

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

— 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…

— Lois Wyse

Power always works from the corner office.

— Lois Wyse

So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to…

— Lois Wyse