Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...market for the stock, the offering will fix its value and make it unnecessary for the company to buy back shares held by retiring executives. The offering will also help solve Seymour's problem of "how to give 7,500 employees in 55 offices around the world the idea of a real stake" in the firm's annual gross. J.W.T. will be able to issue more generous stock options, which U.S. firms find are increasingly necessary to attract and keep creative people...
...dreamed of making a pile of money fast without much work or capital investment. Unlike most, these two former Oxford economics students have succeeded. The inspiration that sent them on their way came to Whitfield in bed one night in 1962. He leaped up and began scribbling down his idea; then he called on his friend Tanner. After putting up $200 each, they established headquarters in one room of a small hotel owned by Tanner's family in Golders Green, a polyglot district of Northwest London. They were in business within two weeks. Today, at 33, they are multimillionaires...
...Their spartan personal office contains little more than two desks for the bosses. "It's just a place to sit," says Whitfield. "If we were all cluttered up, we couldn't be making money because we wouldn't have time to think. If we have an idea, we discuss it and come to a conclusion. I haven't written a letter for years...
...inside?" she said, only half-smiling. "I think it's a wonderful idea. We could use moving scenery and we'd have nice warm warmth...
...human being when I'm working--a rational human being with the same objectivity, the same responses, the same everything as when I'm not. But then I take a few days off and I realize I was wrong. I realize I wasn't human. I had no idea where...