Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.
One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public transport. I took driving lessons.
I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style - it's the other side of the coin of the car being public enemy No.1.
What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.
My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.
Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.'
We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.
If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.
I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.
In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law ensures that knowledge is rewarded. This is exactly the combination that is the foundati...
My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
Even with good maps, there's no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local governments will take action to discourage or prevent building in dangerous areas.
I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.
I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.
