What was it? It was because as I was getting off into the rap game, the sheistiness, the shrewd business, the unloyal stuff, the fake stuff, the snake stuff, the money chase, it was really similar.
quite concerned with the way we conducted our lives in this world. They were very shrewd business ethicists. They really cared about workers getting a decent deal.
And with this one, I decided that she is an amazing politician. She's shrewd because she has to be. She's brutal. Name a politician who is not.
But however, it wasn't quite as frenzied at the airport as in the movie. And he's very shrewd .
And the family dysfunction wasn't the only thing that was dysfunctional. Bill had been known as a shrewd businessman for most of his life. But toward the end, and certainly at the point when Rocky took over, not just the Blackhawks, but the entire corporation was really
But he's also an ally to the rebellion. But he realizes-- he's a shrewd business person, Lucas is.
why this is important. First of all, I would argue that every successful business I've ever seen -- or non-profit -- a lot of people think that successful businesses are because people are so shrewd , that they're focused on how to make money, they're commercially smart. Not really. They ultimately need to do those things, but those come way down the list. Successful, sustainable businesses that I've seen start with a vision about how to serve a client,
We were looking for some action, also known as trouble, as young man often do. But B.B. is very shrewd and very kind-hearted person.
And I told him, I can tell the story, or your story, or these people can tell your story, or you can. Any more, General Manager has to be a really shrewd businessman.
Very diverse income portfolios. So being chief executive of Stonewall, I have to be quite shrewd businesswoman, to be honest. I have to understand profit and loss.
negotiations between the Defense Department, that State Department, the CIA, the National Defense Agency, the various government groups that were trying to establish what the American negotiation posture should be. And you're quite right that often a shrewd negotiator can try to make offers that will divide the adversary. Let me give an example, it's one that -- Richard Bernstein today in the International Herald Tribune, it's on the New York Times website wrote an article that I was thrilled
the size of mice, the size of rats, that is what mammals needed to be able to survive in a dinosaur dominated world. But conversely, the mammals kept the dinosaurs big. And what I mean by that is we never find a fossil of a T-rex the size of a mouse, a triceratops the size of a shrewd . Mammals were the ones that were being very good at being small. Now, during the Cretaceous period, there was this burst of evolution, not just of mammals, but of lots of other species, that we call the
It was a highbrow family, let's say, if it's not particularly wealthy. But the parents, particularly the mother-- the father was quite remote, Presbyterian, shrewd , slightly gruff business man who didn't converse much over lunch and so on.
it's very difficult to say if she was a lesbian or not. And that moved him to formally acknowledge the boy as his son and set him up as an earl, so Nell was quite shrewd in the way that she handled the king.
used the local market dynamics to make it super successful. And what I really like about this example, too, is they are very shrewd about knowing that this model isn't going to necessarily work as they go to other countries as they do their market expansion strategy.