What is a lie? What is a trvth?

Oh, the wisdom of trvth!

1. You have to recognize when someone is lying to you, including you lying to yourself.
2. A lie is basically a non-negotiable check (if you're observant, the check usually says, NON-NEGOTIABLE). What lie you are told depends on what the liar wants from you at the time.
3. You have to say to the liar, "That is true, and sounds right, but that still doesn't make me give you what you want from me, because you haven't earned what I have, and you have enough, so why do you want money from me? Or, "Shut up, Larry, and go get a wife!"
4. "Follow your dreams, because they sure as hell won't follow you!" -- Richard Lewis, American Comedian.
5. A good formal education is not replaced by life experience, is not superseded by life experience, nor is life experience incomparable to a formal education.
6. A formal education just teaches you: 1) How to learn, and 2) that you can learn by yourself what you think is spoon-fed to other people, and 3) Pink Floyd's "The Wall" tells you that you should get a formal education early, because a formal education warps your brain and trains your mind to focus like a machine on activities that may or may not be appropriate once you have had the life experience that tells you which activities you should focus your mind on.
7. People with extensive business and professional experience, it shows, but in ways that you may not think or know.
8. A management consultant manages your expectations but delivers more in business than his client expects.
9. That you are there for your friends and colleagues and clients throughout their life is a fiduciary responsibility of change management consulting.

Mary knows these tenets from business school, where they studied Harvard Business School cases, and from formal company training and professional practice at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, KPMG Peat Marwick, Pacific Bell, Pacific Gas & Electric, Charles Schwab & Co., Oracle Corporation, Clarify, Inc., and Sybase, Inc., where she was a change management consultant in high technology.