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What any manager will try to bring to a company first and foremost is an energy and commitment to the business. To try and really roll your sleeves up.
James Murdoch
Business
Commitment
Try
Will
First
Energy
Sleeves
Foremost
Up
Roll
Manager
Any
Really
Your
Company
Bring
Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a lot of stuff that nobody cares about. Imagine if the movie pages covered none of the big movies and all they covered were movies that you couldn't even find in the theater?
James Patterson
You
Business
Book
Nobody Cares
Big
Cares
Books
Out
Find
About
Nobody
Stuff
Because
None
Go
Cover
Were
Covered
Lot
Reviews
Commercial
Get
Movie
Theater
Movies
Pages
Reason
Many
Even
Why
Imagine
I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.
James Purefoy
Business
People
Think
Worst
Kind
Finding
Stay
Some
Studios
Hotels
Affairs
Get
Perverse
Satisfaction
Actor
Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.
James Randolph Adams
Man
Business
Earth
Come
Principal
Advertising
Inherit
Reason
Why
The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different from a phone call or fax. It's a different kind of intimacy. That pervaded the entire business of writing and publishing.
James Salter
Business
Writing
Phone
Remember
Beginning
Intimacy
Phone Call
Kind
Pens
Fax
Entire
Wrote
Call
Very
Different
Different Kind
Letter
Letters
Publishers
Publishing
Fountain
Career
You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.
James Sinegal
You
Business
Too
Worry
Worrying
Focused
About
Headed
Long-Term
Quarter
Get
Going
Just
Where
Happen
Next
If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.
James Sinegal
Business
Care
Will
Our
Eye
Price
Take
Take Care
Line
Goal
Itself
Stock
Keep
We would rather have our employees running our business.
James Sinegal
Business
Employees
Our
Would
Running
Rather
Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.
James Stockdale
Me
Business
Papers
Seemed
Seems
Having
Throwback
Like
Schoolboy
Felt
Yeah
Any
Just
Mean
Helpless
If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.
James Surowiecki
Me
Business
People
World
Resources
Everything
Criteria
Able
Someone
Allocation
He
Wrong
Make
Because
Off
Encourages
Efficient
Get
Wants
Which
Decisions
Really
Means
Paying
Bribery
Business World
Company
Including
Based
Why
In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.
James Surowiecki
Work
Technology
Business
People
Practice
Too
About
Weeks
Investments
Force
Making
Doing
Same
Often
While
Cutting
Your
Gap
Fill
Downsizing
Keeping
Bringing
Pull
On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.
James Surowiecki
Knowledge
Business
People
Writing
Organization
Become
Way
Kinds
Through
Chat
Crucial
Simplest
Driving
True
New
Ideas
Make
Cliche
Makes
Hallway
New Ideas
Role
Moves
Interactions
Informal
Less
Harder
Level
Plays
Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.
James Surowiecki
Business
Corruption
Seen
Unpleasant
Some
Allowed
Part
Attention
Countries
Until
Doing
Were
Overseas
Western
Western Countries
Expense
Little
Little Attention
Paid
Bribe
Bribery
Businesses
European
European Countries
Even
Necessary
The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.
James Surowiecki
Buy
History
Business
Opportunities
Internet
Google
Down
Record
Netflix
Take
Excite
Part
Mere
Missed
Over
Major
Blockbuster
Dollars
Labels
Than
Refused
The History Of
Acquire
Turned
Fifty
Less
Series
Apple
Million
Million Dollars
Chance
For far too long, the people of Northern Ireland have been denied an equal voice and equal representation in government. It is time for the Assembly and Executive to be up and running and the people's business to be addressed.
James T. Walsh
Government
Time
Business
People
Long
Too
Running
Voice
Equal
Executive
Been
Denied
Up
Ireland
Northern
Representation
Northern Ireland
Far
Assembly
I work incredibly hard - just like every other person in business and work. And aside from the fact of, yes, I am the brother of someone very important, I am, at the end of the day, just James.
James William Middleton
Work
Day
Business
End Of The Day
Important
Every
Other
Incredibly
Brother
Someone
Fact
Like
Am
End
Yes
Very
Person
Just
James
Aside
Hard
Acting is definitely an incredible pursuit, but on the other side, it's a business, and learning where art meets business was a huge lesson for me. The more you can wrap your mind around that idea - that yes, this is my art, but it's tied into business - the more it helps you understand and move past the failures.
James Wolk
Art
Me
You
Business
Learning
Mind
Past
Lesson
Other
Incredible
Side
Meets
Definitely
Wrap
More
Pursuit
Idea
Failures
Tied
Around
Understand
Huge
Yes
Move
Where
Acting
Your
Helps
No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.
James Woods
You
Business
People
Matter
Different Opinions
About
Something
Know
Well
Talking
Well-Informed
Opinions
Amazingly
Get
Different
Informed
If General Motors can't survive and run their business like a business, let them go under.
James Woods
Business
Run
General
General Motors
Like
Go
Motors
Survive
Them
Because of who I am, when I sit at a poker table, I meet people who engage me in conversation, not only about poker, but also about the movie business and about the world of celebrities.
James Woods
Me
Conversation
Business
People
World
Sit
Meet
Table
About
Only
Poker
Also
Because
Am
Celebrities
Movie
Movie Business
Engage
Who
I often find the smaller, independent films are much more rewarding than the bigger stuff, but you do the bigger stuff because it's a business, and you've got to show your face a bit, get yourself around.
Jamie Bell
You
Business
Yourself
Face
Films
Bit
Independent
Independent Films
Find
More
Smaller
Stuff
Because
Around
Got
Than
Get
Often
Rewarding
Bigger
Much
Your
Show
My parents, in their 40s, moved to a different country, started a business, bought a house, didn't speak the language, raised two kids - it's kind of amazing.
Jamie Chung
Business
Speak
Amazing
Language
Parents
Country
Kids
Kind
Bought
House
Moved
Different
Started
Raised
Two
Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.
Jamie Dimon
Time
Business
Stumble
Build
Strategy
Other
Benefit
Scale
More
Area
Outside
Shareholders
Over
Sake
Hand
Expand
Often
Succeed
Customers
Companies
Grow
Growth
Core
I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.
Jamie Dimon
Business
Embarrassed
Am
Banker
It is true that too many people are not getting a fair opportunity to get ahead. We must find ways to help them move up the economic ladder, and everyone - business, government, and nonprofits - needs to play a role.
Jamie Dimon
Government
Needs
Business
People
Opportunity
Too Many People
Ladder
Too
Everyone
Ways
Must
Find
Economic
True
Fair
Up
Role
Get
Getting
Move
Them
Help
Many
Play
When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.
Jamie Dimon
Government
Business
Think
Way
Right Way
Pricing
Look
Involved
Gets
Right
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