When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
Free-trade enthusiasts fret that regional trade arrangements divert more trade than they create.
But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.
Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
An investor in Duke Energy is expecting a dividend payment. That's roughly 70 to 75 percent of the earnings I produce. The business that goes with that level of dividend is a business that has more predictability, more stability.
There are several things that can create an alpha - stock buybacks are one. High dividend yields are another, especially nowadays because the stock market yields more than the banks and the tenure treasury. But by and large, it tends to be companies with a strong cash flow, rising sales, accelerated earnings, a profit margin expansion.
Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.
When we teach in pluralistic ways, there are two wonderful dividends. First of all, we reach more students, because some learn best through stories, some through works of art, some through role play etc. Second of all, we show what it is like really to understand something.
Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more.
First thing we're going to do with the benefits of tax reform is we're going to invest in innovation. We're going to invest in capital, new product lines. It's going to create more manufacturing jobs and our shareholders are going to benefit, too. We're going to improve dividends, share repurchase.
A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders.
But we should be mindful as we argue about our differences that so much more unites than divides us. We should also note that our differences, when compared with those in many, if not most, other countries, are smaller than we sometimes imagine them to be.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
I've never understood why some people hesitate before diving into unfamiliar tasks or activities. I couldn't imagine wanting more instructions about anything.
I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.
Donald Trump has been president for nearly three years. Heβs been on Twitter for more than 10. Yet the only thing more surprising than Trumpβs increasingly awful, hideously unpresidential, deeply divisive tweets is that we still manage to be surprised by them.
Despite the fact that the vast majority of Israeli Jews are not Orthodox, the ultra-Orthodox hold the keys not just to Israel's Jewish sacred places, but to the life cycle events - conversions, weddings, divorces, burials - of the country's more than six million Jews.
The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
Do what you love, and do it well - that's much more meaningful than any metric.
