Hints and tips:
...Bird, who has been in his job since 2020, of course recognises that “the way forward is not easy”. He is looking to staunch outflows, and shares are down 17 per cent in the past year....
...who touch up the gilt frames, manage the storage space, or edit the catalogues....
...Glaring like a bird of prey, he replies with a single word: “Discipline.” “There’s a fight between two ‘mes’,” he explains. “One says, ‘You have everything, you don’t need this.’...
...can’t do business with you, nobody has heard of you, and I couldn’t explain hiring you to the board and shareholders.”...
...She says, “If I were to tell you it was easy, no, that wouldn’t be true. But we learnt a lot from our beginners’ mistakes.”...
...“There were subtle changes in his behaviour that I didn’t necessarily pick up on at the time....
...I can’t see the birds, as I sit alone beside the fire I’ve just made on the edge of a gorge in West Sussex. But I can hear at least four little beaks banging against ash trees....
...The museum is not meant to show her collection — much of which is in storage — but she does loan works for its exhibitions....
...When I told him I was writing an article about the weekend, he said: “If you could use the words ‘boyish charm’ — just put that in there and don’t tell them I said that.”...
...But for the past 17 years, it’s played an outsized role in online life. It’s helped to shape the way we communicate....
...“I fell asleep praying today,” she told him. “You have to stop it,” Salvatore snapped. “Every time, you throw it in my face.” “I don’t throw it at you. I pray every time you leave....
...“But what I really care about is: when can I get my batteries? And preferably I want them yesterday.”...
...I doubt it but perhaps, like the proverbial bird in the hand, a mind-boggling mature burgundy in the glass today is worth two “gonna-be-greats” in the cellar....
...“I have a problem with knowing that if I’m paying this price then someone sitting next to me is paying something else. I don’t really like the idea of self-scalping too much....
...“I like hydrogen because, unlike batteries, you don’t end up with a lot of very toxic waste that you ultimately don’t know what to do with....
...I’ve done my best, and that’s all I can say. What do you find most irritating in other people?I don’t react well to neediness. If your 20-year-old self could see you now, what would he think?...
...Bird’s group picked up the UK’s second-largest self-directed brokerage, Interactive, at the end of 2021 for £1.5bn....
...In April, it raised $5.2mn from “top investors including FTX, Winklevoss Capital, Cadenza and more”, but for some reason doesn’t mention FTX on its homepage anymore: 17) Swoop (Fantasy Cricket) / WEBUTECH...
...“I don’t know anybody who ever said, ‘Hey, we’re going to feed the world by going back to producing the way we did 40 or 50 years ago’. I don’t think that’s realistic....
...Tony MariniThe most important part I saw being a compulsive gambler myself — I’ve been in recovery 17 years — I was really interested in the fluctuation of the prices, the volatility....
...I was pleased to hear that they too struggled with understanding Marcus’s jokes. “I’m sitting next to a German,” said the Swede, Anders Mårtensson, “and he doesn’t understand them either.”...
...I'm a Gypsy with a library. I'm a Gypsy with a PhD. I'm a Gypsy who went to university. Now, that doesn't get associated. I don't fit the nice raggle-taggle Gypsy mode....
...It was not because I didn’t like her. I don’t regret it.” Laffer also had doubts. “I talked with her at enormous length when she was going to set up Ark,” he says....
...“That can be an asset when things are going crazy, as I don’t think he feels stress the same way as everyone else....
...Sonali Punhani: I don’t think so....
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