If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
Shikun & Binui, our infrastructure and real estate company, implements sustainability by building their projects 100% sustainable while educating their employees worldwide.
What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.
I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.
I was a feminist in the Sixties, and can you imagine? The worst thing I could have done was to be in fashion. It was the most uncomfortable position.
You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.
No one is in favor of a bill that would force American citizens to have to interact with law enforcement in a way that wasn't appropriate.
'Dirty Jobs' is a fun, simple little show with huge themes under it. For me, it's penance, it's redemption, it's a sweaty mess.
Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs.
Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.
The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.
Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.
Speculative joy, the joy derived from being right and being rewarded, may well be similar to the rush felt by a winning gambler.
In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.
Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.
Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other financial needs.
The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!
Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.
All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.
