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An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.
It is incredible to come to work every day surrounded by individuals whose insights and efforts place us at the forefront of finance.
I don't feel I'm at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That's not fair; given CEOs have duties to their shareholders.
When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights.
Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.
I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.
You are not going to be happy if you lose to a goal in the last minute. It is difficult to take and difficult to get out of your mind.
Moving from corporate banking to retail banking to international banking to supervisory roles has meant completely reinventing myself.
It's about maintaining balance. Plan better, be organised. I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?
Make sure you have that conviction to do what you know is right, and once you have it, don't let skeptics distract you from your path.
The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else.
This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.
Sustaining innovations are the key to consistent performance, whereas disruptive innovations are the key to dramatic changes in power.
The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.
When I started on Wall Street, there was pretty good diversity in those junior ranks. And you know what? It hasn't made it to the top.
Women tell us that they do feel patronized. They do feel like they don't have the time and the space to have their questions answered.
It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.
I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.
Maybe it's whiner's fatigue, but I'm getting tired of hearing about how hard it is to start a company and be a CEO. It's not that hard.
We had a field day before anyone knew anything about shorting. It was almost a license to steal. Nowadays, it's a license to get hosed.
I grew up in Del Mar, Calif., north of San Diego. I got my first job the summer after eighth grade at a small Internet service provider.
In many situations today, you can make far more than the spread by holding onto the acquirer's stock after the transaction is completed.
TNC was once limited by the resources it could directly marshal to buy land. But teaching people a new idea is incredibly more scalable.
We know the climate is changing. We don't know if it will be really bad or nearly apocalyptic. Both are within the realm of possibility.
If there's a large move on significant news, either favorable or unfavorable, the stock will usually continue to move in that direction.
Machine learning allows us to build software solutions that exceed human understanding and shows us how AI can innervate every industry.
Clearly, for an organization to move on, it is the job of the leader to be that sponge that takes the stress from inside and the outside.
In India, we have the opportunity to give innovation the kind of scale that no other country in the world can. Innovation is a necessity.
When people come and invest in India, they invest on a certain premise, and the fact that the very premise can change worries them a lot.
You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a surprise.
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.
In the end, I expect we'll have AI that is better than we are at nearly every narrow task but which are still our tools, not our masters.
I never talk about my money! It is interesting how awkward it is to talk about it, even though I talk about it in the abstract every day.
We just haven't had enough women in senior roles on Wall Street overall - fewer women in the investment banking function overall as well.
They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages!
When I moved from consumer banking to international banking, I thought I brought a lot of insights from India we could implement globally.
The culture of rigorous questioning and open discourse at the University of Chicago has opened minds to ideas that have changed the world.
By the time people came to realize that free, Web-based email was indeed a hot idea, Hotmail was adding 1 million new subscribers a month.
The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think It's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted.
Look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you don’t lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones.
Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is.
We try to do a great job of understanding the opposing hitter and his tendencies. Maybe understand the hitter better than he knows himself.
It stinks to give up a good player. But if you think that way, you'll never make any trades. You have to focus on what you're getting back.
At Newcastle, I had a team at the bottom of the table with a crowd that was very angry at what had gone on at the club for a period of time.
The increase in coal production and the efficiency in coal movement are all administrative things that can add a lot to the economic growth.
Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.
There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.
It is my hope that visitors, artists, and students from around the world will experience all that MoMA has to offer for generations to come.