“During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our primary marketplace shrink by 38% from peak to trough-38%! As a heavily leveraged company with over $400 million in debt, we might not have made it without the sustainability initiative and, especially, the support of our customers. This revised definition of success-this new paradigm-has a name: "Doing well by doing good". It is a better way to bigger profits.” PeopleWayYearsWellsHas BeensMadeMightLastsNamesBusinessCompanyMillionsSupportFiveSawsFourProductsCostAdvantageBiggerSalvationDefinitionsProfitDebtCustomersMade ItPrimariesFive YearsSustainabilityInitiativeShrinksMarketplaceParadigmDoing GoodBetter WaysGoodwillRecessionsInterfacesDefinition Of SuccessLast Five YearsTrough Author:Ray Anderson
“Let's spend less on trying to fix the unfixable in the last five years of life and spend more supporting people so that they can stay the least disabled as they possibly can, the most independent as they possibly can, and keep them at home.” PeopleTryingYearsHomeLastsFiveIndependentFive YearsDisabledYears Of LifeLast Five Years Author:Katy Butler
“Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. It's only really the last five to 10 years that I've taken my writing seriously in this way, as something I can keep working toward. I think I feel myself much more before as simply a songwriter.” ThinkingWayFeelsWritingYearsWellsStillsI CanMomentsLastsSongTakenFiveNew WaysSongwriters Author:PJ Harvey
“The first 10 years, I was just building just to understand what I was doing and I didn't trust my intuition to just produce. Then, in the last five years, I have really been reflecting on what I am producing and what it is doing.” YearsFirstsLastsFiveProduceBuildingIntuitionFive YearsReflectingLast Five Years Author:David Adjaye
“When I give concerts, the tickets sell for five dollars to one hundred dollars, but for my concerts the five-dollar seats are down in front... the further back you go, the more you have to pay. The hundred dollar seats are the last two rows, and those tickets go like hotcakes! In fact, if you pay two hundred dollars you don't have to come at all.” IfsGivingTwoFactsLastsPayFiveFrontsHundredSellsDollarsSeatsConcertsTickets Author:Jack Benny
“To prove that Wall Street is an early omen of movements still to come in GNP, commentators quote economic studies alleging that market downturns predicted four out of the last five recessions. That is an understatement. Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions! And its mistakes were beauties.” StillsLastsMistakeStudyFiveFourEconomicStreetsMovementWallProveNineRecessionsCommentatorsOmenUnderstatementDownturn Author:Paul Samuelson
“I love the slider. I'll throw it anytime. It helps the curve. The last five feet, it dives toward the left-handed hitter's box. It's a pitch that looks like a fastball coming in. It's a pitch I throw when I need a ground ball with a man on base.” MenNeedsLooksHelpingLastsLeftFiveFeetBallsBoxesCurvesLeft HandedFastballs Author:Kerry Wood
“In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-eyed look. That's something I learned from my dog.” LooksLastsFacesDealsGoneFiveMinutesDogExpressionTerribleDisguiseFive MinutesMy DogRepose Author:Judy Holliday
“I do go back to Ireland, and I'll probably be doing a film in Ireland in January, and I guess that kind of keeps me classified as 'the Irish actor,' but the last four or five projects that I've been in are either American or English, so I don't feel terribly trapped in that. But sometimes, yeah, you would like to not be called 'the Irish actor.' You'd prefer to just be called 'the actor.'” FeelsKindSometimesLastsFilmActorsFiveFourProjectsYeahIrelandTrappedJanuary Author:Colm Meaney
“Size will hurt returns. Look at Berkshire Hathaway - the last five things Warren has done have generated returns that are splendid by historical standards, but now give him $100 billion in assets and measure outcomes across all of it, it doesn't look so good. We can only buy big positions, and the only time we can get big positions is during a horrible period of decline or stasis. That really doesn't happen very often.” GivingLooksDoneBigsHappensLastsHurtFivePositionReturnPeriodsStandardsHistoricalSizeBillionsHorribleOutcomesAssetsDeclineOnly TimeSplendidStasis Author:Charlie Munger
“So however much time has passed since Legacy came out would also have transpired in the real world. So it will still be contemporary. So let's say if the Tron sequel comes out later, then four or five years have passed since the last movie.” IfsWorldYearsStillsRealLastsFiveFourContemporaryLegacyFive YearsReal WorldSequels Author:Joseph Kosinski
“I'm strapped in [the barrel] with a five-point drag-racing harness. With 50 feet to go, they tell me on the walkie-talkie to get ready for a head-first. "We love ya, man," was the last thing I heard. Then I could feel myself going over.” MenFeelsFirstsLastsFiveHeardFeetReadyRacingDragBarrelsHarnessTalkiesWalkie TalkiesDrag Racing Author:Steve Trotter
“I chose the American ones, more or less the last five years of the silent era, because those are the ones that aged the best in the way they tell the story. One, it's about human beings with context. It's a very classical story with feelings, with laughter, melodrama and it really works, the good ones - Murnau's American movies, John Ford's Four Sons, King Vidor's The Crowd, or the (Josef) von Sternberg movies. You can watch it now and it still works. I mean they are really, really good pieces so this is where I tried to work.” WayYearsHumansMeanStillsStoriesFeelingsLastsHuman BeingsWatchesFivePiecesFourSonKingsLaughterSilentCrowdsErasFive YearsMelodramaAmerican MovieLast Five Years Author:Michel Hazanavicius
“The pitch would normally be low, but my ball starts carrying and stays on a sustained plane. Everyone always complains - 'that ball is low' - but then you go back and look at the tape, and it's right there. My catchers tell me, and the hitters tell me, that the ball stays true flight the last five or six feet.” LooksLastsFiveFeetSixLowsBallsComplainingFlightPlanesTapeStay TrueCatchers Author:Roy Oswalt
“Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least forty-five hours - and traveling is an easy way of surrounding ourselves, as in childhood, with what we cannot understand.” WayYearsLastsEasyHoursFiveChildhoodFortyReverseEasy Way Author:Pico Iyer
“I'm still suffering from shock from the last war. I was almost drafted! Luckily I was wounded while taking the physical. When I reached the psychiatrist, I said, Give me a gun, I'll wipe out the whole German Army in five minutes. He said, You're crazy! I said, Write it down!” GivingWritingSaidStillsWarWholeLastsSufferingFiveCrazyMinutesGunGive MeArmyShockWoundedFive MinutesWipePsychiatrist Author:Jackie Mason
“In four days, I experienced five seasons. It was thirty, it was sixty, it was ninety, then it was twelve! And on the last day, there was thunder, lightning, and snow - together! And I hadn't done drugs.” DoneTogetherLastsFiveFourDrugSeasonsSnowThirtyTwelveSixtyLightningThunderNinetyLast Day Author:Lewis Black
“The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.” YearsSaidLastsPastDeathFiveWeekStonesTwentiesFive YearsCheatingRollingFifthTwenty FiveRolling StonesKeithReunitedFifth Anniversary Author:Norm MacDonald
“My dad got divorced six times. Well, he actually only got divorced five times. He wouldn't divorce the sixth one 'cause he said he didn't want people to think he couldn't commit. 'I don't want people not taking me serious.' Dad, your last marriage was performed in Reno by an ordained lesbian Elvis impersonator. Who you hit on.” PeopleThinkingWantWellsSaidLastsCausesFiveSeriousDadSixMy DadDivorceCommitDivorcedImpersonators Author:Christopher Titus
“I have been trying to heal my body from surgeries over the last five years - from my broken leg, tonsillectomy, wisdom teeth, eagle syndrome and hip. Needless to say, it's been a very painful process.” TryingYearsHas BeensBodyLastsProcessFiveBrokenPainfulLegsHealTeethHipsFive YearsSurgeryEaglesSyndromesLast Five YearsBroken Leg Author:John Michael Montgomery
“Obviously yeah, but our first album took us five years to put together, to get signed and to put it out, we had a lot of time to think about what we were doing. Black Sunday was like a whirl wind, we had to rush back to the studio after touring, but the last album we had a little longer, what like eight months?” ThinkingYearsFirstsLittlesTogetherLastsBlackFiveWindMonthsYeahAlbumsStudiosEightFive YearsSundayTouringTime To Think Author:B-Real