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...consider yourself a team player, he advises, even though you may have to pretend to be one. "Team spirit is for losers, financially speaking." Ownership is for winners, though: "Ownership isn't the important thing--it's the only thing ... You must strive with every fiber of your being, while recognizing the idiocy of your behavior, to own and retain control of as near to 100% of any company...
...pleased and honored to be invited back by the students of Harvard. Our speaker in 1975 was Dick Gregory, the social critic and comedian, who was inclined toward the sharp-edged and satiric. Central bankers don't do satire as a rule, so I am going to have to strive for "kind of interesting...
...recent reports: conservative funding tends to result in conservative research, and the competition for federal funds is such that scientists spend more time applying and re-applying for grants than researching itself. Leslie C. Berlowitz, the chief executive of the nationwide honor society, said that universities should at least strive to partially fund what she termed “early-career scientists,” who currently rely completely on outside funding. Berlowitz added that the report also highlights the challenges female scientists face when juggling their careers and their families. Unlike other reports such as the National Institutes...
...their support for education reform. Conant received a grant from the Carnegie Foundation in 1957 to study American public high schools through “searching examination, city by city and town by town” over two years to see whether gifted children were adequately pushed to strive for higher education...
...matter what you eat, if you want to keep your memory sharp, you should strive for a diet that keeps your belly fat down. A study of more than 6,500 people published in the March 26 edition of the journal Neurology showed that people who were overweight and had a large belly were 2.3 times as likely to develop dementia as those with normal weight and belly size, while those who were obese and had a large belly were 3.6 times as likely. As scientists have long known, as belly fat--which disrupts body chemistry more than less reactive...