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Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund. Jacqueline Novogratz
acumen business
Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand. Sophia Amoruso
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I admire Pat Shortt as a businessman. Such acumen is unusual for an entertainer. He did all his own deals. I learnt a lot from Pat when I was on the road with him for a year. Deirdre O'Kane
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He certainly brings a set of financial skills to this job that may be unparalleled in the history of this university, ... I would certainly expect his business acumen to be one of his strengths.
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He has made amazing progress with our microprocessor business, making it the envy of our industry. His leadership, operational skills and business acumen have positioned the company for long-term, sustainable growth, and I'm very pleased that AMD now will benefit from those skills on an even grander scale. Hector Ruiz
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Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda.
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First and foremost, we look at a specific market. Is it a passionate sports market, does it have the potential to draw television viewers, what it's history for soccer events, and we do research into the soccer audience. Second, they need to have an ownership group with the appropriate resources and business acumen to be a success and they need to have plans for a stadium, generally a soccer-specific stadium.
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We will move forward with the ownership committee and club approval expeditiously, ... In the time since he has become an investor in the team, I have gotten to know Stu and have been impressed with his acumen and enthusiasm. Bud Selig
acumen alive caught
IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you're likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you're an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen. Bill Vaughan
change begets
Change begets change. Charles Dickens
change integrity roots
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. Charles Caleb Colton
change begets
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.
change men rocks
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.
change country littles
If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country. Charles Sturt
change age wells
It is not well to make great changes in old age. Charles Spurgeon
change becoming becoming-new
Everything is perpetually becoming new. Alan Watts
change way world
When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.
change vices computer
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa. Alan Perlis
drives human
The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist. Lynsey Addario
drives home labor market period point rates unchanged worried
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
driven panic rebound signal strong today yesterday
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.
driver exactly identify looking piece together
We are looking to identify that driver and piece together exactly what happened.
drive higher motivation move stocks
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
fellowship doe purpose
God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us. Aiden Wilson Tozer
fellowship life lounge medium trying
It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.
fellowship treason
Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence. Edmund Burke
fellows jack likely vote
Of the fellows least likely to be president, you'd have to vote Jack No. 1. George Smathers
fellowship saint defeated
I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Albert Camus
fellowship macarthur flattering
To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally. David Simon
fellowship liked
just liked it. I think we should do one of Fellowship of the Rings.
fellowship flat letter manchester offering secretary
I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven. Sophie Hannah
fellows terrific walks
We're all friends as well as teammates. We have a terrific time. We have fellows of all walks of life.
fundamentals
But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals. Chico Hamilton
fundamentals environment members
The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society. David Suzuki
fundraising rights campaigns
I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out. David Prowse
funds money
As a rule, bond funds will not double your money overnight.
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We are proud to be in a position to offer these funds to the community. Personally, I'm honored to represent this group of vintners who lend a hand whether it be for Hurricane Katrina relief or to help a neighbor in need.
fund global invest money type
Where the money is going is into global and international diversified funds, ... It's really not the type of fund to invest in if you want diversification.
fundamentals impossible values
There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about. Antonio Tabucchi
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We have no knowledge whatsoever of who Ocean Fund is and what they are talking about. We own them (the Caesars properties), and they didn't submit anything to us.
funding indian intended programs
We have never intended to 'cut into the pie' of funding for Indian programs and services,
future men intellectual
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?
future ruins today
Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow. Charles Simmons
future ocean games
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.
future worry progress
Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.
future judgment premonition
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. Al Stewart
future animal trying
Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation. Chogyam Trungpa
future mean two
You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong. China Mieville
future vision get-better
...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better David Miliband
future looks care
In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me. David Rakoff
globally true work
We are a true globally distributed work force.
global prices reflect taking
We want our prices to better reflect the fluctuations taking place in the global market.
global national remains safe
Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.
global hold nature unique ways
As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are. Kate Bush
global great health human
In many ways, human health is the great global connector. Kathleen Sebelius
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Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain. Thomas Friedman
global mean national political politics reliable source
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority. Michael Ignatieff
global major mother personal september thinking
September 11, on a global scale, and my mother dying, on a personal level, were the two major things that got me thinking about all of this. Donald Fagen
global heavy schedule travel
She will have a heavy global travel schedule as well.
necessary prepared respect strategic
We are prepared to do what is necessary with respect to strategic reserves,
necessary prepared regards strategic
We are prepared to do what is necessary with regards to the strategic reserves, Samuel Bodman
necessary poetry utterance
From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America. Natasha Trethewey
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I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then. Sharon Stone
necessary
We are going to make the necessary adjustments to him not being around.
necessary occurs start
When this occurs we have to start investigating and if necessary start a search.
necessary order others understood
The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
necessary next protect steps stop terrorists
We're doing this to stop the next terrorists and to take necessary steps to protect the American people,
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings. John Dryden
prepares red
If anything prepares you to be president, it's being a Red Sox fan. Senator Kerry
prepares responsibility
It was a lot of responsibility and a lot of work, but it also prepares you better, Julie Davis
prepares teaching train
I train and teach, ... Teaching prepares you for anything.
social-media
That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual. David Cross
social theory instruments
Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them Bruno Latour
social-taboos underwear taboo
I swear, I wanna be your underwear. Bryan Adams
social-behavior saving patterns
One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior. Dian Fossey
social social-life
I have a social life. But I don't discuss it. Ed Koch
social crisis knows
If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis. Bill Nighy
socialist-government obamacare america
The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not. Charlie Daniels
socialism approach
We approach closer and closer to socialism.
social social-change
I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it. Ben Rattray
tools good-times all-time
All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so. Carlos Slim
tools said pins
Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy. Madeleine Albright
tools levels littles
No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them. Charles Lyell
tools defeated ifs
If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools. Billy Higgins
tools materials
Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with. David Ricardo
tools use digital
Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show. David Brenner
tools fool worship
Only fools worship their tools Dee Hock
tools want needs
Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need. Agnes Varda
tools management obstacles
The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.