Deborah Meaden Quotes

I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.

You got to put the personal stuff away and see the business side of it.

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.

I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

As a journalist, you don't tend to interview people with a view to becoming their friend. You can't expect that. It's not professional.

You can't get emotional about your work.

The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.

Professionally and personally, I try to be as agnostic as possible, try to see things as objectively as possible.

I'm very rational. I tend to let my head rule my heart.

Zuck is unemotional. He doesn't get influenced by ego.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

To increase our objectivity, we must learn to switch off the mini-movies. Objectivity requires us to be mindful, present in the moment, and experiencing what is happening without judgment.

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

I'm very old-fashioned - I don't operate with an agenda. If you're a biographer, you want to be passionate about what you're doing but dispassionate about how you do it.

I'm sometimes embarrassed by how clinical I can become when I'm out reporting.

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.

I'm not terribly sentimental.

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.

There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.