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People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it's changed over the years. When we first began, the goal was to create a for-profit company to help the children that I met in a small village in Argentina.

~Blake Mycoskie

Topics: Argentina Ask Began Changed Children Company Consider Create First Goal Help Me Met Often Over People Small Toms Truth Truth Is Village Years

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I spent my whole career thinking about risk, markets, infrastructure, and regulation. I had seen the financial crisis unfold, and I had seen the credit derivatives market get operationally ahead of itself, which resulted in systemic risk counterparty exposures. I began to believe that distributed ledgers had the capability to tackle that problem.

~Blythe Masters

Topics: About Began Believe Capability Career Credit Crisis Derivatives Distributed Financial Financial Crisis Get Had Infrastructure Itself Market Markets Problem Regulation Resulted Risk Seen Spent Tackle Thinking Unfold Which Whole Ahead

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I had seen the financial crisis unfold, and I had seen the credit derivatives market get operationally ahead of itself, which resulted in systemic risk counterparty exposures. I began to believe that distributed ledgers had the capability to tackle that problem.

~Blythe Masters

Topics: Began Believe Capability Credit Crisis Derivatives Distributed Financial Financial Crisis Get Had Itself Market Problem Resulted Risk Seen Tackle Unfold Which Ahead

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Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.

~Bob Balaban

Topics: Am Began Early Exciting Fact Fantasies Immediately Know Little Maybe Me Official Place Put Them Then Until Up Very Would Your

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But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.

~Bob Balaban

Topics: Began Box Captivated Combine Fact He Just Magic Movies Obviously People Seeing Special Television Things Think Trying Way Were

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I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better.

~Bob Barker

Topics: About Animals Became Become Began Better Concern Did Energy Feeling Had Having Immediately More Now Out Possibility Strong Think Vegetarian Working Would Years Years Ago I Think

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In the 1990s, the Democratic Party began to cozy up to their long-time enemies: Wall Street Bankers. They took their money and relaxed their regulations until the Great Recession forced the Democrats via Dodd-Frank to re-regulate the banks.

~Bob Beckel

Topics: Bankers Banks Began Cozy Democratic Democratic Party Democrats Dodd-Frank Enemies Forced Great Money Party Recession Regulations Relaxed Street Took Until Up Via Wall Wall Street 1990S

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I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it.

~Bob Iger

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God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.

~Bob Riley

Topics: Because Began Came Christ Country Did Down Founded God Jesus Jesus Christ Last Looked Lord Move Our Our Lord Over Rains Rock Savior Something Storms Years

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A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.

~Boris Becker

Topics: After Ark Began Born Chose Few First He Him His How Know Name Noah Reading Son Story Wanted Years

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