The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people but real management is developing people through work.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

I think in conventional magazine wisdom you need to have a redesign every decade or so.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media politics and publishing the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

I'm not a money manager but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are the more risk you can take on.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom to see everything through the filter of right and left.

There's the conventional wisdom of which I have none where you get a record deal you get a publicist you get a campaign and you do the tour but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.

Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate Mitt Romney can contrary to conventional wisdom make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.