116 Quotes by Margaret Heffernan

Everyone I know feels harassed by email which has invaded their waking and sleeping hours.

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

I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.

Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are.

A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors.

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.

Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.

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

I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice. They have to leave their phones behind to learn the basic lesson: Be where you are.