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The Canary Islands offer special incentives to companies looking at potential filming locations, so it was only logical for me to help the local government make connections with major U.S. film studios like Universal, Fox, Sony, Disney, Paramount, Time Warner, 21st Century Fox, CBS, Viacom, Comcast, HBO, Netflix, Warner Brothers etc.
James Costos
Government
Time
Me
Logical
Looking
Local
Local Government
Locations
Paramount
Brothers
Netflix
Only
Potential
Studios
Sony
Major
Like
Make
Islands
Offer
Canary
Viacom
Etc
Century
Warner
Warner Brothers
Disney
Incentives
Help
Special
Companies
Connections
Film
Universal
Fox
Filming
Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.
James Daly
Business
Think
Back
Way
Out
Doing
Go
Going
Anyone
Certain
Used
Certainly
Companies
Believes
Insurance companies don't make anything.
James Dyson
Make
Insurance
Insurance Companies
Anything
Companies
What separates us from other camera companies is that the vision guy is the decision maker. That was one of my biggest advantages at Oakley, and it's the same at Red - I'm in the trenches, in the product development, and I make the final call.
James Jannard
Vision
Decision
Other
Final
Trenches
Guy
Advantages
Red
Development
Make
Call
Maker
Camera
Same
Biggest
Us
Product
Separates
Companies
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.
James Lovelock
Will
Power
Out
About
Rival
Put
Reduce
Lot
Oil
Oil Companies
Regard
Disinformation
Who
Companies
Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Profits
If you're just interested in the prestige of banking, that's not what's going to sustain you. You have to be interested in what we do: managing and originating capital, helping issuers and investors come together is great, bringing these companies to life.
James P. Gorman
Life
Great
You
Together
Prestige
Investors
Come
Going
Managing
Just
Banking
Sustain
Interested
Capital
Companies
Helping
Bringing
The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.
James Surowiecki
Synergy
Seems
Arise
Beyond
Most
Call
Hear
Expand
Siren
Often
Businesses
Companies
Reinvention
Start
Desire
Core
Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.
James Surowiecki
Capitalism
Problem
Own
Ownership
Dilemma
Corporations
Those
Run
Would
Would-Be
Pockets
Only
Small
Perennial
Had
Instead
Toward
Became
Real
Occurs
Line
Been
Model
America
American
Managers
Owners
Essentially
Moved
Which
Stakes
Who
Companies
Professional
In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.
James Surowiecki
Rage
Setting
Too
Took
Corporate
Harshly
High
Only
Performance
Days
Executives
Felt
Judging
Lot
Option
Wall
Wall Street
Flak
Bar
Companies
Downsizing
Street
Slash
If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.
James Surowiecki
Worth
Will
Tell
Insider
More
Trading
Us
Less
Companies
If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.
James Surowiecki
Good
Money
Claim
Make
Loopholes
Tax
Companies
Need
Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are.
James Surowiecki
Health
Inflation
Problems
Care
Focus
Whatever
Driver
Main
Health Care
Insurance
Insurance Companies
Providers
Discussions
Companies
Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It's remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months.
James Surowiecki
Construction
Money
Matter
Once
Months
Those
Destroyed
City
Remarkable
Devastated
Disasters
Redistribution
Insurance
Insurance Companies
Smoothly
Replace
Quickly
Happen
Regions
Them
Themselves
Taxpayers
Workers
Who
Companies
Even
Lived
Reinventing
In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled.
James Surowiecki
Struggle
Value
More
Between
Most
Because
Real
Been
Source
Historically
Won
Labor
Than
Owned
Controlled
Often
Capital
Hard
Companies
Assets
Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.
James Surowiecki
Capitalism
Think
Other
Way
Those
Possible
Must
Critics
Seek
Price
Consumer
Deliver
Consumers
Part
Like
Most
Make
Around
Sell
Controlled
Want
Manipulated
Them
Lowest
Who
Companies
Things
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
Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo - there's a common theme. None of these companies ever sold. By staying independent, they were able to build a great company.
Jan Koum
Great
Facebook
Google
Build
Sold
Independent
Able
Staying
Yahoo
None
Were
Common
Theme
Companies
Company
Ever
Apple
Republicans who oppose Obamacare have a responsibility to show that they can do better - not return us to the days when insurance companies alone decided who to cover for what benefits at what price. Otherwise, they should move beyond the repeal fights of the past, accept Obamacare as the law of the land, and work with us to make real improvements.
Jan Schakowsky
Work
Alone
Benefits
Law
Better
Responsibility
Oppose
Past
Otherwise
Obamacare
Price
Days
Beyond
Make
Return
Accept
Insurance
Insurance Companies
Real
Repeal
Cover
Move
Decided
Republicans
Land
Us
Should
Show
Fights
Who
Companies
In Chicago, actors start up companies and get together and produce things, and there's a really rich, vibrant non-Equity theater scene out there.
Jane Lynch
Together
Rich
Out
Scene
Chicago
Up
Get
Get Together
Vibrant
Theater
Produce
Really
Companies
Actor
Things
Start
Start-Up
I think companies need to put up tools that put privacy and security in the hands of their users and make it easy to understand those tools. In Google's case, two-step verification is a perfect example of this.
Jared Cohen
Privacy
Example
Google
Think
Tools
Those
Security
Easy
Case
Perfect
Perfect Example
Put
Make
Understand
Verification
Up
Hands
Companies
Users
Need
Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.
Jared Diamond
Hope
You
Our
Some
No Hope
Cases
Remarkably
Driving
Days
Forces
Although
Said
Been
Years
Years Ago
Very
Behind
Biggest
Might
CEOs
Acting
Pessimistic
Companies
Twenty
I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.
Jaron Lanier
Big
Think
Dramatic
New
Come
Ideas
Most
New Ideas
Little
Then
Companies
Grow
The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.
Jason Calacanis
Will
Twitter
Seventh
Well
Version
Sixth
Etc
Fifth
Companies
Many of the things we do at Basecamp would be considered unusual at most companies: paying for employees' hobbies, allowing our team to work from anywhere, even footing the bill for fresh fruits and veggies in our staff members' homes.
Jason Fried
Work
Employees
Our
Considered
Members
Would
Would-Be
Allowing
Footing
Most
Unusual
Fresh
Hobbies
Staff
Fruits
Anywhere
Bill
Paying
Team
Companies
Many
Even
Homes
Things
The reality is that companies are full of things that are left unspoken. And even when they are out in the open, the CEO is almost always the last to know.
Jason Fried
Reality
Out
Open
Almost
Unspoken
Know
Always
Left
CEO
Full
Companies
Even
Things
Last
We don't want to bank all our risk on a small collection of big companies. We don't want to lose 20 percent of our business if one big account goes away.
Jason Fried
Business
Big
Lose
Our
Collection
Percent
Risk
Small
Big Companies
Account
Goes
Bank
Want
Companies
Away
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