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It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.
Simon Mainwaring
Government
Time
Change
World
Better
Better World
First
Building
Become
Society
Philanthropy
Our
Corporate
Corporate America
Sector
Entire
Purposes
Higher
Making
Pillar
Pillars
Private
Private Sector
Itself
Begin
Contributing
America
Committing
Just
Social
Social Change
Fulfilling
Larger
Profits
Two
Need
Third
For me to work with someone, I have to know who I'm working with so I can learn how to deal with each other and try to help each other. At the end of the day, it really just comes down to building a genuine relationship. I think that's a very important factor in business.
Ski Mask the Slump God
Work
Day
Me
Relationship
Business
End Of The Day
Try
Important
Building
Down
Think
Other
Someone
Factor
Know
Learn
Deal
Genuine
How
End
Very
Just
Really
Working
Help
Who
Each
When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting techniques could be gleaned. The story was an assignment for class and it featured a series of careful but meaningless instructions. Of course, the building of the snowman was a red herring.
Sloane Crosley
Class
Old
Build
Building
Herring
Nine
Featured
Could
Red
Instructions
Wrote
Practical
Course
How
Years
Short
Short Story
Story
Which
Meaningless
Series
Assignment
Techniques
Careful
If you teach a girl, you are not just imparting education to a woman but to a family that will later help in nation building.
Smriti Irani
Education
Family
You
Woman
Will
Girl
Building
Nation
Later
Imparting
Nation-Building
Just
Teach
Help
The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a judicial system, and this system needs a lot of repair. Therefore, there is no need for Kentucky to start building another judicial system within the system, that we already have.
Sonny Landham
Needs
Building
System
Another
Within
Judicial
Judicial System
Repair
Lot
Commonwealth
Therefore
Start
Kentucky
Need
When both women and men contribute to a country's economic life on an equal basis, they help building stronger societies and stronger economies.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Life
Women
Men
Stronger
Country
Building
Both
Economic
Economic Life
Economies
Equal
Women And Men
Contribute
Help
Societies
Basis
Stay-at-home mothers are building our future. And I feel like if we had more of them, our society would not be in such a decline.
Stacey Dash
Future
Building
Society
Our
Would
Stay-At-Home
More
Had
Feel
Like
Mothers
Them
Decline
Now I don't work for the money or the glory. I just work because I like building businesses.
Stefano Pessina
Work
Money
Building
Like
Because
Glory
Just
Businesses
Now
I think the moment that I'm very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people's perception of how you can do luxury fashion.
Stella McCartney
Fashion
You
Business
People
Luxury
Perception
Animals
Building
Think
Changing
Hopefully
Without
Proud
How
Very
Moment
Using
When I moved out, my mom and dad came to help me get settled into my apartment - a place I ultimately got hooked up with in Coach Nelson's building. We had to figure out how to get all my shoes over here. That was a little stressful.
Stephen Curry
Mom
Me
Building
Shoes
Settled
Hooked
Out
Nelson
Had
Over
Got
How
Came
Ultimately
Up
Get
Moved
Place
Apartment
Little
Coach
Figure
Help
Mom And Dad
Dad
Here
Stressful
Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.
Stephen Harper
Work
Government
Strong
Long
First
Building
Think
Worst
Destroys
Case
Scenario
Invest
Unstable
Look
Obvious
First Of All
Very
Canada
Place
Taxes
Image
Raises
Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear.
Stephen Kinzer
Fear
Building
Every
Once
Presidential
Soldiers
Enter
Citizens
Corridor
Armed
Terrifying
Without
Camouflage
Normal
Where
Ordinary
Public
Uniforms
Fortress
Now
Whose
Palace
The climate-change industrial complex pontificates that the U.S. has to stop using coal to save the planet. But even if the U.S. cut our own coal production to zero, China and India are building hundreds of coal plants. By suspending American coal production, we are merely transferring jobs out of the U.S.
Stephen Moore
Plants
Building
Own
Our
Hundreds
Complex
Out
Jobs
India
Merely
Industrial
American
Stop
Transferring
China
China And India
Cut
Planet
Production
Coal
Using
Even
Zero
Save
Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.
Stephen Sprouse
Art
Photography
Building
Clothes
Down
Harry
Some
Combining
Doing
Continue
Moved
Where
Then
Lived
Her
Started
The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?
Stephen Wolfram
Me
Science
Natural
World
Progress
Building
Understanding
Complex
Okay
About
Make
Equations
Got
How
Been
Years
Mathematical
Question
Might
Natural World
Now
Thing
Started
Phenomena
Artists are creating their own genre sound, and other artists are building upon that sound and already creating a huge subculture created around one particular sound created by one artist. So, with all that happening, the genres are going to break down, and there's going to be a multitude of sound coming out.
Steve Aoki
Building
Own
Down
Other
Out
Particular
Genre
Genres
Around
Sound
Coming
Subculture
Huge
Artist
Going
Artists
Break
Happening
Created
Creating
Multitude
A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A.
Steve Aoki
Building
Kind
Building Blocks
Am
Came
Blocks
Lot
Artist
Being
Who
Goldman in the '80s was like a priesthood, a monastic experience where you worked all the time but were incredibly dedicated to client services, to building and growing companies.
Steve Bannon
Time
You
Experience
Priesthood
Building
Incredibly
Like
Client
Were
Where
Worked
Dedicated
Companies
Growing
Services
Goldman Sachs isn't the firm it once was when I worked for it, but it's still one of the building blocks of our capitalist society.
Steve Bannon
Building
Society
Our
Once
Firm
Building Blocks
Still
Blocks
Goldman Sachs
Worked
Capitalist
Capitalist Society
I think strong countries and strong nationalist movements in countries make strong neighbors. And that is really the building blocks that built Western Europe and the United States, and I think it's what can see us forward.
Steve Bannon
Strong
Building
Think
States
Neighbors
See
Countries
Make
Building Blocks
Built
Blocks
Western
Western Europe
Nationalist
Movements
Us
Really
Europe
Forward
United
United States
The Lean Startup process builds new ventures more efficiently. It has three parts: a business model canvas to frame hypotheses, customer development to get out of the building to test those hypotheses, and agile engineering to build minimum viable products.
Steve Blank
Business
Three
Build
Building
Engineering
Startup
Frame
Those
Out
Minimum
More
Hypotheses
Development
New
Lean
Ventures
Parts
Builds
Test
Efficiently
Model
Get
Viable
Process
Canvas
Customer
Business Model
Agile
Products
Decades before we were able to articulate the value of 'getting out of the building' and the Lean Startup, the value in having skunk works controlling their own distribution was starkly evident.
Steve Blank
Value
Building
Before
Own
Controlling
Startup
Evident
Out
Distribution
Able
Having
Lean
Were
Articulate
Decades
Getting
Skunk
Works
It typically takes multiple iterations and pivots to find product/market fit - the match between what you're building and who will buy it.
Steve Blank
Buy
You
Will
Building
Find
Takes
Between
Match
Fit
Who
Multiple
You can get a good handle on a company's culture before you even get inside the building. For example, when companies say, 'We value our employees' but have reserved parking spots, a private cafeteria, and over-the-top offices for the executives, that tells you more than any PR spin.
Steve Blank
Good
You
Culture
Value
Example
Employees
Building
Before
Our
Say
Tells
Spin
Inside
More
Parking
Over-The-Top
For Example
Executives
Spots
Private
Handle
Than
Get
Offices
Any
Companies
Company
Even
Reserved
For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.
Steve Guttenberg
Life
Time
Sometimes
Three
Building
Year
Personal Life
Spend
Years
Get
Did
Personal
Movies
Four
Two
Why is it so hard for the IMF and the U.S. government to understand that putting out the fire comes before fireproofing the building?
Steve Hanke
Government
Fire
Building
Before
IMF
Out
Putting
Understand
Hard
Why
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