Gail McMeekin

Even if you choose to spend some time working for someone else, you need to keep your eye on the door, your skills and your About Page updated, and a strong network going

“Go where the action is. You can't stay home and expect your work to be seen or heard. You have to make the effort.”

“Reading The 12 Secrets of Highly Successful Women, you gradually discover the one real secret of a successful life: it is yours—and yours alone. You get to find and define it. You get to create it.

“What looks like a practical guidebook quickly reveals itself to be a fireworks display of inspiration and encouragement.

I have worked with thousands of clients who have been tortured by the agony and confusion of living according to someone else's values, misconceptions, scripts, or formulas.

Webster defines success simply as “a favorable or satisfactory outcome or result.”

The best time management strategy in the world is letting go of fantasies and working within your own desired paradigm.

Successful people focus on the outcomes that resonate for them—creating viable businesses that service their customers and clients—and so they can revel in the joy of that heartfelt, personal set of goals.

we have to define success as not exactly measured in dollars, but rather success in knowing that I have accomplished something that has had a positive effect these past twenty-three years when I started the cake business.

Her advice for aspiring creatives: “Go where the action is.