Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.
Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
I still remember 2002. It's a very hard time for Hong Kong industry, no movies in Hong Kong, and also at this moment I start my new company, so many people said, 'You're crazy.'
I would define independent film as a movie that is not financed by any of the smaller film companies. Because then, those are movies that in all likelihood are made without stars. And then they have to rely just on the material.
High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage.
Corporate executives often buy or sell shares in their companies, and stocks rarely rise or fall significantly when those transactions are reported.
In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.
As they grow, companies saturate their markets, become more complex and difficult to manage, and face larger and more entrenched competitors.
For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.
Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter.
When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.
Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.
It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records.
I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.
My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of the heroes of the world.
Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' - to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.
American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.
Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.
Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.
Yandex originated from a company called Arkadia, which created two search programs under the DOS operating system in 1990.
