BusinessExperienceP T Barnum No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience. – P T Barnum Application Quotes Business Quotes Expect Quotes Experience Quotes Learns Quotes Life Quotes P. T. Barnum Quotes Personal Quotes Succeed Quotes Understand Quotes Understands Quotes In my experience, the most effective professionals in business and government have the ability to get things done. They’re trained to work with multiple stakeholders, to understand how to identify a problem, devise solutions, to compromise and work well with others. To qualify the term ‘boss’ by adding ‘girl’ or ‘babe’ or ‘honey’ or ‘pink’ or whatever other ridiculous, antiquated-gender role assignment the media thinks is cute this month, is, at the least, disrespectful and at the worst, damaging to the way young women view themselves and our fight for equality in the business world.
Robyn Davidson When ‘Tracks’ first came out, I was courted by Sydney Pollack. I had lunch with him, and he opened the conversation with, ‘Honey, you ain’t gonna like what I’m gonna do to your book.’ I really liked him, but I turned him down, because – well, I was stupid. I also turned down a great deal of money. – Robyn Davidson
Erin O'ConnorPositive I’ve been on both sides: the victim and the villain. I was the victimised model, and everything from my weight to my fertility was held up for discussion. And then I was the person that could garner some kind of positive outcome, by taking on the role of vice chairman of the British Fashion Council and becoming an activist of body image. – Erin O’Connor
Rob Cross Obviously the crowds are massive on the Premier League so it took me a bit of time to actually settle and get some results. – Rob Cross
Naseeruddin Shah Shakespeare is a seminal story-teller. I don’t think he imagined he was writing classics or that he was writing great poetry. I don’t think he dreamt his work would be staged 400 years after he died. – Naseeruddin Shah
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