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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
Gary Hamel
Could
Fail
Expense
Businesses
One person's rights do not have to come at the expense of another's. If we can find common ground on religious freedom and LGBT issues in Utah - one of the nation's most religious and conservative states - we can do it anywhere in the country.
Gary Herbert
Freedom
Rights
Conservative
Country
Nation
States
Find
Religious
Religious Freedom
Come
Most
Another
Issues
Person
Expense
Common
Common Ground
Anywhere
Ground
Utah
Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist.
George C. Wolfe
Vision
Everybody
Commercial
Artist
Often
Expense
Theater
Agenda
Appeal
Unique
Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.
George Ripley
God
Time
Thank God
Our
Costs
Perfect
Red
Thank
Labour
Stone
Expense
Which
Then
Less
Ever
Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.
Giraldus Cambrensis
Food
People
Care
Country
Defence
Addicted
Minds
Furniture
Bent
Plunder
Dress
Horses
Employed
Drunkenness
Always
Gluttony
Expense
Means
Who
Wholly
Whose
I only became involved in politics when democracy returned to Bolivia. Then, unluckily in democracy, we ran into the inheritance of 20 years of military government, a great deal of debt, and a great deal of expense.
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
Politics
Government
Great
Democracy
Great Deal
Military
Ran
Only
Involved
Returned
Became
Deal
Years
Debt
Expense
Then
Inheritance
Bolivia
You really can't spend money on social media unless you really try. Social media is really more about effort than expense.
Guy Kawasaki
You
Money
Try
Social Media
Unless
Spend
About
More
Than
Effort
Expense
Social
Really
Media
Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.
Hank Johnson
Government
People
Wealth
Few
Corporate
Wealthy
Favors
Unaware
Seem
Taken
Over
Most
Policy
Expense
Influence
Public
Public Policy
Now
I hope that when people see my body of work, they will say, 'That brother dropped it for real on us, even at the expense of his own image.'
Haywood Nelson
Work
Hope
People
Will
Own
Say
Brother
See
Dropped
Real
His
Expense
Us
Body
Even
Image
Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
J. Irwin Miller
Business
Financial
Fears
Long
Pour
Building
Earnings
Markets
Financial Markets
Pressures
Out
Long-Term
Term
Executive
Chief
Chief Executive
Officers
Expense
Energies
Boards
Produce
Succumb
Companies
Employers' national income is a particular disincentive to employ because it is an expense without benefit.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
National
Benefit
Particular
Employ
Employers
Because
Without
Expense
Income
Tax reform advocates generally agree that a fair code shouldn't single out certain groups for favorable treatment at the expense of others.
James B. Stewart
Single
Others
Favorable
Out
Generally
Fair
Advocate
Reform
Expense
Tax
Tax Reform
Certain
Agree
Groups
Code
Treatment
All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.
James Fenimore Cooper
Political
Made
Men
Sense
Recourse
Sacrifices
Individuals
Combinations
Majority
Expense
Common
Whether
Common Sense
Plausible
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
What I've come to learn with self-publishing is that if you want to provide readers with something of equal quality, it requires the same amount of time and expense.
Jane Green
Time
You
Quality
Something
Come
Equal
Learn
Readers
Provide
Same
Expense
Want
Requires
Amount
With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.
Jeff Bezos
You
Possible
Something
Developing
Like
Fixed
Goes
Expense
Want
Much
Used
Engine
Amount
Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense.
Jeff Bingaman
Today
Year
Energy
Analyst
We Cannot
Frankly
Kind
Some
Cost
More
Could
Price
Prices
Consumers
Highs
Historic
Very
Shocks
Than
Afford
American
American Consumers
Expense
Cannot
Estimate
Energy Prices
Speaking
Billion
Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.
Jeff Tweedy
Music
Money
Treat
Music Industry
Those
Some
Something
Lawsuits
Take
Tennis
Cheap
Like
Look
Executive
Industry
Branded
Accounts
Shoe
Trying
Expense
Stop
Wants
Either
Should
Save
The idea of just improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story.
Jim Rash
Sometimes
Idea
Improvising
Expense
Just
Story
Timber extraction provides big profits at the expense of local communities. Providing communities with unfettered access to harvest a forest that is protected in perpetuity provides better and more reliable incomes.
Johan Eliasch
Better
Big
Extraction
Local
Harvest
Reliable
More
Protected
Access
Timber
Perpetuity
Provides
Providing
Forest
Expense
Unfettered
Communities
Incomes
Profits
Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.
John Podhoretz
Government
Business
Vision
Wealth
Creation
Too
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Obama
Promotion
His
Expense
Centered
Romney
Right
There are any number of very hard working people in Hollywood who deserve recognition. Mostly its the artisans and crafts persons - the 'below the line' workers - whose only reward is to be pejoratively labeled 'below the line' workers. I say get them all on the next thing smoking to Vegas for an all expense paid weekend of whatever.
John Ridley
People
Smoking
Reward
Whatever
Say
Recognition
Only
Weekend
Vegas
Mostly
Line
Labeled
Very
Get
Crafts
Any
Expense
Them
Hollywood
Persons
Workers
Next
Working
Paid
Hard
Next Thing
Working People
Who
Hard-Working
Whose
Deserve
Thing
Number
Below
At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.
John Strachan
World
Indeed
Moral
Trifling
Rise
New
She
Glory
Frequently
Contests
Pinnacle
Expense
Place
Might
Compared
Foundation
I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.
John Wells
Family
Humor
Power
Difficult
Else
Kind
About
Someone
None
Always
Lot
Up
Very
Expense
Grew
Barbed
Painless
History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?
Jon Meacham
Government
Best
History
Wish
Looking
Looking Back
Other
Back
Sphere
Sector
Out
Tells
Would
Entire
Entrepreneurial
Attentive
Edit
Does
Private
Private Sector
America
Expense
Energetic
Either
Us
Really
Engaged
Who
Among
Just as we are enhancing the customer side of our marketplace, we are also looking for ways to increase our contributor expense.
Jon Oringer
Looking
Increase
Side
Our
Marketplace
Ways
Also
Contributor
Expense
Just
Customer
Enhancing
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