“My company is now in it's third year of trading with CBS accountants. I have found them 100% professional and their expertise in complex tax matters is worth its weight in gold. As a result, I have recommended them to many colleagues who are also very happy with the service provided.” YearsMatterFoundResultsCompanyTaxesGoldThirdsWeightComplexesWorth ItColleaguesVery HappyTradingExpertiseAccountants Author:Christopher Wray
“A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than a third from cost or unless it reflects a known deterioration of consequence in the company's position. In a well-defined bear market many sound common stocks sell temporarily at extraordinary low prices. It is possible that the investor may then have a paper loss of fully 50 per cent on some of his holdings, without any convincing indication that the underlying values have been permanently affected.” WellsMayHas BeensRealValuesSoundLossCommonCompanyKnownPositionBearsCostPaperLowsConsequenceThirdsImportanceSellsExtraordinaryDefinedAffectedInvestorsDeclineCentsConvincingIndicationDeterioration Author:Benjamin Graham
“These companies know that at their current size they're not going to be big enough to have the necessary capital, and they don't have enough spectrum to get to the third generation.” KnowsEnoughBigsSportsCompanyGenerationsThirdsSizeCurrentsSpectrum Author:Steve Largent
“Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He discovered that while in the US population 14.5 per cent of all men are 6ft (1.83m) or taller, among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies the proportion is 58 per cent. And while 3.9 per cent of American adults are 6ft 2in or taller, almost a third of the CEOs were that tall.” MenYearsBookLastsCompanyEvolutionAdultsThirdsFortunePopulationChiefsJournalistProportionExecutivesTallOfficersCentsLast YearCeoSurveysBlinkChief Executives Author:Daniel Finkelstein
“It is not done to let anybody be too happy. The moment two people seem to be enjoying one another's company, a good hostess introduces a third element or removes the first.” PeopleFirstsTwoDoneMomentsSeemsEnjoyCompanyElementsThirdsRemoveIntroducingHostesses Author:Virginia Graham
“A third advantage of mission oriented companies, is that people outside the company are more willing to help you.” PeopleHelpingCompanyWillingAdvantageThirdsMissions Author:Sam Altman
“The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.” PeopleWorldCountryHandsBlackCompanyEconomyConditionsDrugAreasLaborThirdsPrisonComplexesAlternativesCorporationsBlack PeopleBetter LifeProfitableThird WorldMigrationIndustrialization Author:Angela Davis
“Wal-Mart workers make just over $8 an hour, and they must pay more than a third of their health insurance premium if they choose to take the company's insurance. That means just about half of them don't choose to take the health insurance because they can't afford it.” IfsMeanHoursPayHalfCompanyThirdsWorkersPremium Author:Liza Featherstone
“I writhe when I see myself on the screen. I'm such a dreadfully clumsy hulking image. I say to myself, "Why doesn't he get off? Why doesn't he get off?" I mean, I look like such an idiot. Some fat awkward thing dredged up from some third-rate drama company. I must stop thinking about it, otherwise I shan't be able to go on working.” ThinkingLooksMeanAbleCompanyGoes OnDramaThirdsRateScreensFatsIdiotAwkwardClumsy Author:Peter Sellers
“It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.” PeopleThinkingWellsPersonsMatterSeemsMightCompanyThirdsJustifiedThird Person Book:Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts Source: Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
“Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.” PeopleTwoGovernmentSocialRealizingCompanySecurityThirdsArmyBudgetsSocial SecurityMedicarePentagonInsurance CompaniesMedicaid Author:Scott Pelley