“Some representatives of monopolistic capitalism, sensing this evil in their system, have tried to silence criticism by pointing to the diffused ownership in the great corporations. They advertise, "No one owns more than 4 percent of the stock of this great company." Or they print lists of stockholders, showing that these include farmers, schoolteachers, baseball players, taxi drivers, and even babies.” EvilPoliticsSilenceCompanyEconomyPlayerBabyPercentCapitalismCriticismBaseballListsCorporationsLiberalismPrintDriversFarmersRepresentativesOwnershipPointingTaxiBaseball PlayerGreat CompanySensing Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God.” WayPrayerCompanyListsSettingSettingsShoppingRequest Author:Philip Yancey
“It just seems logical that sticking to investing in only a small number of companies that you understand well, rather than moving down the list to your thirtieth or fiftieth favorite pick, would create a much greater potential to earn above-average investment returns.” WellsSeemsMovingNumbersCompanyGreaterReturnPicksInvestmentInvestingAverageListsLogicalSmall NumbersAbove Average Book:The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success Source: The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success
“The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.” IdeasCompanyLowsInvestingPositivityListsPrioritiesEmployee Author:Shawn Achor
“The start of the New Year is a perfect time to start a stop doing list and to make this the cornerstone of your New Year resolutions, be it for your company, your family or yourself. It also is a perfect time to clarify your three circles, mirroring at a personal level the three questions... 1) What are you deeply passionate about? 2) What are you are genetically encoded for - what activities do you feel just "made to do"? 3) What makes economic sense - what can you make a living at?” FeelsYearsMadeThreePerfectLevelsBusinessCompanyEconomicActivityPassionateListsCirclesOur FamilyResolutionNew YearCornerstonesNew Years ResolutionMirroringFeels Just Author:James C. Collins
“With my two brothers, Jean-Marie and Joel, I wrote a two-page story and wanted to make some kind of movie. We met a French production company, called Why Not?, and the first name we put on the list was Ken Loach. It was a dream for all of us. So, we tried and we met Ken and Paul Laverty, his writer, and they read the two pages and were inspired by that to do something. Paul had the freedom to do his own story - and he wrote his own story, which is better than the one we'd written.” FirstsKindTwoStoriesDreamWantedNamesCompanyWrittenBrotherMetsPagesInspiredProductionsListsWhy NotMarieTwo Brothers Author:Eric Cantona