(1) You’ve got to have balls of steel and you’ll always find a way.” But Mone has also always exhibited an intuitive understanding of what the market, and the media, want.
(2) Also lined up by the Tories is Michelle Mone, the founder of the Ultimo lingerie brand , to become a peer just weeks after she was appointed as the government’s new entrepreneurship tsar for areas of high unemployment.
(3) I think I’ll always have that.” Michelle Mone: My Fight to The Top (£18.99, Blink Publishing) is available now.
(4) A lot of business people have said you didn’t have to be so open, but at speaking events I always tell people you should be honest.” In person, Mone, 43, is far gentler than her well-branded public persona would suggest.
(5) Mone, who made no secret of her concerns about the impact of a yes vote on business, writes with winning directness in her book about being invited to Downing Street along with other Scottish grandees to discuss the referendum campaign with David Cameron.
(6) But Michelle Mone – Ultimo lingerie tycoon, serial entrepreneur, international speaker – is unique in many aspects.
(7) It’s about keeping businesses going rather than having a start-up, some soft grants then within six months everything’s gone.” I tell Mone that her women-can-do-anything epilogue reminded me of Nicola Sturgeon’s rousing speech in the Scottish parliament when she was elected the first female first minister last November (although the epilogue, and indeed the entire book, is rather more sweary than the Holyrood debating chamber is used to).
(8) I did sit down and think about it long and hard,” Mone explains, perched in the immaculate living area of her family home in one of the grandest parts of Glasgow’s west end.
(9) They need a sounding board.” Mone mentors more than 100 new businessmen and women – “not that I have all the answers” – and hopes to see Westminster establishing more programmes like hers.
(10) The Department for Work and Pensions said Mone, from Glasgow, would look at how to encourage benefit claimants, women, young people, disabled people and ex-offenders to become entrepreneurs.
(11) Michelle Mone: My Fight to The Top (£18.99, Blink Publishing) is available now.
(12) Michelle Mone – tipped to be on the list of new peers, expected to be revealed later this month – will lead a review of obstacles faced by people in disadvantaged areas when it comes to setting up their own businesses.
(13) Michelle Mone of Ultimo: 'In business you have got to have balls of steel' Read more She came out against Scottish independence during the referendum campaign, and in the runup to the general election said: “I’ve always been Labour through and through.
(14) Units of Para-Thor-Mone (Eli Lilly and Co), seven conscious, non-pregnant, non-lactating Merino ewes were infused with a maintenance dose of the hormone at a rate of 4-75 U.S.P.
(15) It was because I had never seen a lingerie brand that had a black model,” Mone explains simply, “and I was getting angry about it and I thought: ‘I’m going to do it.’ I just wanted to say: ‘We are an international brand, we have international customers, and I don’t care what colour of skin you have.’ It was a big statement.
(16) Established business-folk don’t tend to publish eye-wateringly honest autobiographies, as Mone has just done.
(17) She glides over any mention of Sturgeon, but commends Scotland’s female role models generally and says: “I’m all for helping women with their confidence, and once they get that, nothing can stop them.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘When I started, a lot of the lingerie companies were run by men,’ says Michelle Mone.
(18) My Fight to the Top, which entered the Amazon charts at No 1, is a straight-talking account of Mone’s objectively awesome trajectory from teenage mother who left school with no qualifications to one of the country’s most successful female entrepreneurs.
(19) And not through nudity or foul language, but because while Gawain "made myry al day, til the mone rysed" (ie lounged in the castle, flirting with the ladies), the lord of the land was out gralloching.
(20) When I started, a lot of the lingerie companies were run by men, and I came out with these inventions they’d never thought of because they don’t wear bras... Like the backless bra, the frontless bra, designs that I only came up with because I got so frustrated that I couldn’t see anything out there already.” Michelle Mone: ‘My party trick is measuring people’s boobs with my eyes’ Read more Likewise, Mone’s genius for publicity was evidenced by her simple calculation the media will always love photographs of celebrities in their underwear.
Mote
Definition:
() of Mot
() of Mot
(pres. subj.) of Mot
(v.) See 1st Mot.
(n.) A meeting of persons for discussion; as, a wardmote in the city of London.
(n.) A body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the management of affairs; as, a folkmote.
(n.) A place of meeting for discussion.
(n.) The flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. See Mot, n., 3, and Mort.
(n.) A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck.
Example Sentences:
(1) These suggest that this response is associated to a delayed type hypersensitivity of Jones-Mote type.
(2) The reaction appeared to be based on tuberculin type and Jones-Mote type of reactions.
(3) The Jones-Mote type of DTH, even modified by cyclophosphamide pretreatment, produced a significant local inflammatory reaction which was unable to destroy tumor cells.
(4) I once saw a merlin above Burgh Castle spiral in a relentless tight corkscrew as it pursued a skylark that steepled until it was only a dust mote.
(5) Thus, basophils occurred in human tuberculin and Jones-Mote reactions and were not a distinguishing feature of Jones-Mote reactions.
(6) Similar treatment protocols, however, did not enhance Jones-Mote (cutaneous basophil) hypersensitivity to OVA or contact sensitivity reactions to dinitrofluorobenzene.
(7) Thus, hapten-specific cutaneous basophil reactions were present in guinea pigs immunized with CFA for classical delayed hypersensitivity, and in animals immunized with IFA for Jones-Mote reactions.
(8) M. leprae antigens normally elicit this Jones-Mote type of DH.
(9) These results therefore demonstrate that whereas the Jones-Mote reaction is correlated with disease exacerbation, the tuberculin-type of DTH may be protective.
(10) In this instance of this month's extreme melting, Mote said there was evidence of a heat dome over Greenland: or an unusually strong ridge of warm air.
(11) The different behaviour of the two coffee varieties may be due to mote or less strong binding of this high-polymer carbohydrate to the cell wall.
(12) 42 min: Cha Bum-Kun presses OVER-AMBITIOUS BUT DECENT WILD SKELP on his Cha Du-Ri-mote Control.
(13) We induced sensitization for Jones-Mote reactions in 20 normal humans by intradermal injections of keyhole limpet hemocyanin.
(14) Delayed hypersensitivity reactions include tuberculin type, Jones Mote type reactions and contact sensitivity.
(15) The cutaneous basophilic hypersensitivity (Jones-Mote) is a T-cell mediated immune reaction, detectable even before the classic delayed reaction after sensitization with tiny up to large doses of proteines.
(16) Intracutaneous tests revealed some positive reactions to each thiol compound; there was a tendency to produce a tuberculin type reaction with indurated erythema rather than the Jones-Mote type seen in CET-induced reactions.
(17) In contrast to the normal individuals, who showed Jones-Mote type of hypersensitivity, no lepromatous patient could mount any 'delayed-in-time' cutaneous hypersensivivity reaction against an intradermal challenge of monomeric flagellin.
(18) Jones-Mote reactions are delayed, erythematous, and mildly indurated cutaneous reactions originally described in humans sensitized by skin injection of heterologous proteins.
(19) These experiments suggest that Jones-Mote type DTH responsiveness to SRBC remains dependent on the presence of the initially reactive lymphoid organ, provided the dose of antigen is too low to evoke the generation of DTH-reactive cells in other lymphoid organs.
(20) Skin test antigen requirements indicate that the Jones-Mote reaction involves an active stimulatory response rather than combination with preformed antibody, since ABA conjugates of nonimmunogenic D-polymers do not work.