Zev Yaroslavsky Quotes
It ought to be recognized for what it is: an absolutely historic investment by the County of Los Angeles.
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Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
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Oracle is my second job ever that did not involve waitressing. But I still have my waitress apron just in case this does not work out. It's just that I fell in love with software when I was programming in college. When I was an investment banker, there were mostly mainframe companies and very few software ones.
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I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers.
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My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.
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I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.
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I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
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Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.
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Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union.
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I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.
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The U.S., out of all places, is just absolutely incredible.
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Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.
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The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.
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If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.
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We would see lower levels of investment, lower economic growth, and as a result, lower wage gains.
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When I bought my first house in London with my husband-to-be, our surveyor said: "Nicki, you're paying top dollar, but it's not an investment," and I said: "But we're buying a home, not an investment."
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If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children.
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Looking ahead, while we remain cautious about the near-term operating environment, we are confident in the strength of our franchise and the firm's longer-term growth prospects.
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It ought to be recognized for what it is: an absolutely historic investment by the County of Los Angeles.
