#som

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership. ↗

— Jeffrey Skilling

#i #increased #net #ownership #shares

In the fall of the year 2000, there just happened to be a decision point when they asked me to become Chief Executive Officer of the company. It was a time when, as you remember, we were starting to have some real problems in the California energy markets. ↗

— Jeffrey Skilling

#become #california #chief #chief executive #company

I guess men like me - somebody out there must think I'm hot. ↗

— Jennifer Sky

#hot #i #like #me #men

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers. ↗

— John Sladek

#background #call #halt #handling #i

Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience - to see something that's not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it's like their lives. ↗

— Erika Slezak

#because #been #daytime #fantasy #like

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different. ↗

— Alfred P. Sloan

#ambition #courage #develop #different #especially

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs. ↗

— Alfred P. Sloan

#create #creates #creative #creative spirit #develop

If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was. ↗

— Allan Sloan

#aspect #away #country #decides #every

To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#diligence #i #i tried #into #laws

Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#ideology #long #sometimes #suits #too