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Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies. Mohsin Hamid
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We are pleased with our results in a challenging 2005, even though the 4% improvement in diluted earnings per share from operations was below our goal to increase those earnings 10% to 15% per year over time. J. Hoover
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We started out at a level below my expectations. But now it is there. Some players have come into the league who have made it better. It's a high-Class A league, maybe even better than that.
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We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us.
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When you take out the 15 cents and the 20 cents, you can get a number which actually was below consensus. And that's obviously in stark contrast to what we saw from Lehman Brothers yesterday.
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When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you. John Banville
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When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops. Nell Newman
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We've always said this about Alaska: nasty-ass weather, warm people. I never experienced 32 below before. ... My Irish blood has been thinned out by years of living in California.
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When we were living there, we always knew there was the danger of something catastrophic happening down there because New Orleans is below sea level.
business soul prosperity
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. Charles Dickens
business fighting men
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers. Charles Caleb Colton
business men morality
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
business clever men
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
business law brain
Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?" Charles Stross
business past derivatives
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future. Alan Greenspan
business colleagues depends
...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
business years risk
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
business greatness views
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
buying internet brands
The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying. Al Ries
buy estimate good land next
We want to try to buy the land next year. I want to see if that's a good estimate on our part.
buying swimsuits difficult
Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder. Chloe Sevigny
buying instant itunes
I like buying iTunes. It's instant. Caitlin Rose
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I simply can't buy as much of some stocks such as Detection Systems or United Education & Software as I'd like because there just aren't all that many shares available.
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Large-caps were safe in 1996, '97, '98. Everybody was buying index funds and Nifty Fifty funds. As long as money was pouring in, it was great.
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The person who buys a Focus is more likely to stay with us to move into a mid-size car or SUV or pickup trucks,
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The permitting process is so complicated here in Massachusetts. Realistically, whoever buys Frank's land, you're still talking 1 1/2 to 2 years.
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The people would go out and buy stuff from other places and be re-selling it on their front yard as opposed to getting rid of all their own junk.
companies offered received thinking
We want to see what he was thinking at the time. He's the one who received the employment. Was it something that he sought? Was it something that the companies offered to him?
companies
There's a lot of companies that profit from a weak dollar.
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When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow. Michael Specter
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The other thing the Internet and overall technology are enabling us to do, quite honestly, is streamline our internal costs, and that's a big deal. We're using the Internet just like a lot of companies to try and drive down costs administratively and then leverage that infrastructure to enhance our core products and offer Internet-related products outside our mainstream. John Nolan
companies manage office post
The Post Office and the other companies can't manage the volume, ... They shouldn't be dictating; they should be negotiating.
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We are pleased to join the global companies listed on the world's most prestigious stock exchange, ... Our NYSE listing marks an important milestone for 7-Eleven and will raise our visibility with the financial community.
companies furniture houses rent
There are companies that will rent furniture for houses on sale.
companies mind obvious
There are companies that in my mind are obvious takeover candidates,
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There are companies making money consistently, even at lower gold prices. Panic is the last thing you want to do.
cost knows programmers
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. Alan Perlis
cost followers may
The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!" Aiden Wilson Tozer
cost-of-living people political
We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to raise it with these cost-of-living adjustments. Here's what's going to happen: They're going to have to lay people off. Chris Christie
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The positive news is we're making progress on the cost front, led by painful concessions by our employees and suppliers, ... The tougher news is while the revenue environment has improved, it's still depressed by historical standards.
costs decides
The person who decides is dictating why the costs are what they are.
cost proud work worth
We are proud of it. We put a lot of work into it. It did cost a little more, but it was worth it.
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We are looking to establish quick gains, though it is too early to quantify what the cost savings will be.
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We spent the last few weeks talking about how good the team's effort was and tonight was the first time that we didn't play with the effort that I felt we should have. We did some of the same things that have cost us games this year but it just looked like the energy level disappeared in the second half.
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The Internet is the ultimate vanity-publishing medium, and therefore, the ultimate place for those of us who like to watch. The Internet can reach an audience at lower cost than any medium before it. Nathan Myhrvold
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The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist. Lynsey Addario
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The point about labor market weakening suggests the Fed's ... worried about that. That drives home the point they're going to keep these rates unchanged for a long period of time. David Jones
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The plunge yesterday was driven by panic selling, the rebound today is a strong signal for buying.
driver economic war
The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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We've actually had to pull out the stops and have supervisors working the windows and pull in everyone who can give a drive exam and try to accommodate them.
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We are looking to identify that driver and piece together exactly what happened.
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Where's the motivation to drive stocks higher?. I thought that we could have done better, but there was no real motivation to move things higher or lower.
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When you took away the 3 they drove right by you and you took away the drive they hit the 3.
drive friendship people time
I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other. Martin Freeman
sales special
When we have a special event, our sales triple,
salespeople resolve
Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales. Brian Tracy
sales
Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.
sales season stretch ticket
There has never been a three-week stretch of season ticket sales like this. Ever.
sales stores turn
Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk. Linda Thomas
sales
Overall, sales have been good. Things have been going smooth.
sales ticket
Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.
sales spring until
We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity. Richard Foreman
sales trends
All of the sales trends are reshuffling the industry.
selling assets process
I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others. Bernard Ebbers
selling soon supplies
We're getting supplies of all of these, and we're selling out as soon as we get them,
selling-more goal priorities
Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities. Don Cooper
selling encyclopedia right-now
Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now. Bruce Springsteen
selling
It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones. Erin O'Connor
selling figures industry
Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry. Mark Cuban
selling
We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.
selling
Now we see more application vendors selling these suites.
selling-more records labels
I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels. Aimee Mann
time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.
time all-things
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
time looks one-thing
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
time world overcoming
Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.
time journey men
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
time opportunity enemy
Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.