#term

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#books #especially #girl #oxford #seventeen

Time Warner has been managed for the short term. This has damaged the company's fundamental competitive position and its prospects for growth. This approach has cost shareholders a staggering $40 billion. ↗

— Bruce Wasserstein

#been #billion #company #competitive #cost

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like. ↗

— Sam Waterston

#business #career #determines #fate #hand

In terms of men I fancy, I think the actor James Franco is gorgeous. But I find it odd to be described as a sex symbol myself. ↗

— Emma Watson

#described #fancy #find #franco #gorgeous

We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#determined #murray #opportunity #over #patient

One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#clinton #did #first #govern #had

Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term. ↗

— Jack Welch

#developing #long #long term #management #managing

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later. ↗

— Jack Welch

#company #earnings #five #jerk #later

You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is. ↗

— Jack Welch

#balancing #eat #grow #long #long-term

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility. ↗

— Robert Welch

#days #equal #fact #fiercely #hostility