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When the founder of World Energy Solutions Inc. assembled his first board in 2000, it consisted of nine investors and friends. The group met quarterly, generally affirming Domaleski's every action. But the Worcester, Mass., company, which auctions electricity and gas credits, lacked customers and financing. It needed more from its board to survive. Tahl Raz

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The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different. Talib Kweli

Me Sometimes Fans Job Giving To Be Honest Way Tell Only Investors Know Craft Artist Different Want Even Honest

The IIP had to be folded up by the Harper Conservatives after it became clear - and as it took the 'South China Morning Post's Ian Young to reveal - that Canada's ragged refugee-class immigrants had contributed more to Revenue Canada than the IIP's big-spender immigrant investors did over the life of the program. Terry Glavin

Life Morning Post Young Conservatives Took Immigrant Immigrants Folded More Had Clear Investors Over Became Reveal Revenue South Up Than Canada Did After China Ragged Program

Big companies are reliant on institutional investors on a punishing schedule which leads to ruthless behaviour. This form of capitalism with this structure and incentives will never deliver sustainability. Tim Jackson

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When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where our politics went wrong. Timothy Noah

When you look at how technology companies are funded, it's not a zero-sum game. It could be 20 investors in one company, and everybody has to work together for the benefit of that company. Troy Carter

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My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs. Vince Cable

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No one would suggest completely ignoring news about your investments. Enron investors, for example, would have been well served to sell once early reports of accounting irregularities surfaced. But the key is to keep news in context and act only if further reflection or study indicates that the core thesis for an investment has changed. Whitney Tilson

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If I bring to light a company that's poisoning customers, defrauding investors, or something like that... there just aren't enough regulators in the world to keep up with all of the fraud and malfeasance that goes on out there, particularly in the little nooks and crannies of the market. Whitney Tilson

World Light Enough Market Out Fraud Something Poisoning Investors Like Particularly Up Goes Just Little Customers Company Keep Bring

While I take no pleasure in others' misfortunes, we've historically made most of our profits from other investors behaving in a panicked and irrational fashion and selling us certain stocks at prices far below their intrinsic value. More volatility equals cheaper stocks, which equals higher returns. Whitney Tilson

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We call ourselves 'opportunistic value investors.' Whitney Tilson

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It's human nature: for most investors, the pain of stocks going down is more tangible than the joy of when they go up. The common impulse is to do something - anything - to minimise the pain. Whitney Tilson

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There is a natural tendency for investors to devote a significant majority of their time to finding new ideas. After all, uncovering great companies selling at great prices is the lifeblood of successful investing. But in the never-ending quest for the next great idea, investors often give short shrift to their existing investments. Whitney Tilson

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To a large extent, equity investors put their hard-earned capital into the hands of management and count on it being employed skilfully and honestly. When that doesn't happen, losses typically follow. Whitney Tilson

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After graduating in International Relations in 2011, I turned down safe, corporate job offers and instead accepted a position at an 'incubator' in L.A. - a tech word for a team of people who are funded by investors to create apps. I knew the future was digital and that I had to take a risk. Whitney Wolfe Herd

Future People Word Digital Job Down International Relations Relations Incubator Corporate Apps Risk Take Had Knew Investors Instead Safe Accepted Offers Graduating After Turned Create Team Who International Tech Position

When a state offers your company an attractive package of incentives to relocate, you have to look at it, and if it significantly boosts your bottom line, you have to take it or answer to your investors. William M. Daley

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The quality and quantum of potential investors in Africa is huge. Yemi Osinbajo

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I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors. Yuri Milner

Life You Age Facebook Entrepreneur Year Every Market Has-Been Ratio Divide Investors Making Been His Cap Billion Company

The public, investors and stakeholders now expect higher standards of tax compliance and more transparency from large businesses about the way they approach taxation. David Gauke

Approach Way Compliance About More Higher Investors Expect Tax Public Stakeholders Taxation Transparency Standards Businesses Large Now

Many gold and silver experts will recommend you buy numismatic coins - rare and old coins. If you are not a rare coin expert, I'd encourage you to stay away from them. New investors often pay too much for rare coins that are not really rare. Robert Kiyosaki

Buy You Old Too Much Will Rare Pay Coins Too Recommend Stay Silver Investors New Encourage Often Gold Expert Experts Them Much Really Many Away Coin

We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I don't - that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. It's insane and it's unsustainable. Marco Rubio

Government Day Half Owes Extreme Insane Only Investors Unsustainable Most Dollars Foreigners Debt Chinese Billion

In theory, the MSRB is supposed to protect the public interest, investors, and state and local governments. In practice, the MSRB membership structure is more shaded toward protecting the financial professionals who broker the deals. John Kennedy

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