On two occasions, utility executives I'd never met had looked at me and said, 'I thought you'd be bigger!' In a way, I took that as a compliment!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.
I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
I think it's absolutely essential that the people that work for a company need to feel that they're part of something bigger - that it's not just a job.
I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna!
In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.
I like my customer to be fierce.
The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.'
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