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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

~Adam Braun

Topics: Access Always Assume Building Business Businesses Community Creating Does Donors Education Generating Goods Just Me Mean Means Now Office Operate Producing Revenues School Space Staff Structure Successful Surprises Training Who You

Keywords: Ability


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Like a bottle of wine or a promising college quarterback turning pro, C.E.O.'s are similar to what economists call experience goods: you commit to a price long before you know if they're worth it.

~Adam Davidson

Topics: Before Bottle Call College Commit Economists Experience Goods Know Like Long Price Pro Promising Quarterback Similar Turning Wine Worth Worth It You

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Dynamic pricing - charging more when goods and services are in high demand and short supply and less when the opposite is true - isn't new. Gasoline retailers, hoteliers, and airlines have been deploying the technique for years.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Airlines Been Charging Demand Dynamic Gasoline Goods High Less More New Opposite Pricing Services Short Supply Technique True Years

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Be the guy that delivers the goods and consistently promise things that you can deliver. Even if you under-promise, it's better than over-promising and not delivering, because you don't get a lot of tries.

~Adam Neumann

Topics: Because Better Consistently Deliver Delivering Even Get Goods Guy Lot Promise Than Things Tries You

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The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage.

~Adam Rickitt

Topics: Abuse Any Believe Bestowed Conservative Conservative Party Coverage Did Duty Goods Greatest Honours Job Just Media Party Placed Responsibility Sake Selecting Someone Trust Who Would

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Shortly after Sisi was elected, his administration announced cuts of 'subsidies' on natural gas and energy consumption and lowered those for bread and other goods. Such action was taboo during the Mubarak and Sadat presidencies for over half a century, but Sisi was able to convince Egyptians he was taking necessary action.

~Ahmed Zewail

Topics: Able Action Administration After Announced Bread Century Consumption Convince Cuts Egyptians Elected Energy Energy Consumption Gas Goods Half He His Lowered Natural Natural Gas Necessary Other Over Subsidies Taboo Taking Those

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The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.

~Ahmet Zappa

Topics: Am Bill Came Captain Communicate Goods Like Novel Sentence Sold Them Then Thing Together Very Way Well Whole I Am

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This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can't manufacture the happiness of our people.

~Ai Weiwei

Topics: Ability Anything Around Cheaply Country Fake Fill Giant Goods Happiness Homes Make Manufacture Nation Notorious Now Our Our People People Problem Small World

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In California, they're not making any more land. And with the high cost of land, from a business standpoint, being able to move your goods quickly and cheaply makes Compton an attractive place to be.

~Aja Brown

Topics: Able Any Attractive Being Business California Cheaply Cost Goods High Land Makes Making More Move Place Quickly Standpoint Your

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In 'The Goods,' I'm Ed Helms' dad, and I was known all those years as Kirk Cameron's father, and now I'm known as Robin Thicke's father, so I find myself playing myself a lot and, frankly, living up to expectations of what the public's image of me is.

~Alan Thicke

Topics: Cameron Dad Expectations Father Find Frankly Goods Image Kirk Known Living Lot Me Myself Now Playing Public Robin Those Up Years

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