Whether you stay private or go public, after all is said and done, a CEO’s job is to create lasting shareholder value. Jay Samit Read Quote
I know an elderly society matron in Singapore who would rather walk in the scorching sun for blocks on end rather than have her chauffeur drive into the Central Business District at peak hour and pay the $1.50 surcharge. Kevin Kwan Read Quote
I’m not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of ‘things’ doesn’t produce happiness for me. Joe Mansueto Read Quote
I lived in Dallas, and it’s a big city, but you can jump on any freeway and drive in any direction for about 30 minutes and you are in the country – open space, wide open, very open, nothin’ around. Stark Sands Read Quote
I suppose if your parents die in their 50s and you are approaching 50, you see that you are definitely not in the first half of your life any more. Lee Mack Read Quote
It’s a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe. Henry James Read Quote
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn’t be something that interested them. Calvin Trillin Read Quote
Many years ago… many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, ‘Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.’ Well, by cracky, that’s what he did! Walter Huston Read Quote
The pressure to take irrelevant characteristics like race and sex into account in academic science is dangerous enough. But Silicon Valley continues to remake itself in the image of the campus diversity bureaucracy. Heather Mac Donald Read Quote
