We generally acquire a company every three to four weeks on average. And so it’s a rare month that there’s not a company being bought. We typically buy for technology and really great people.
The Chinese people are a great people; they are industrious and brave, and they never pause in pursuit of progress.
I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it’s like climbing a mountain or building a building. It’s a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
My approach to politics is very serious. It must be handled by great people with extraordinary skills and human qualities. I feel I don’t have qualities of that sort.
Illamasqua is a great brand with great people.
I grew up in a little Methodist church that was very rural, very community support-oriented, made up of great people who talked about love and grace and the spiritual experience, but only in rhetorical terms.
I’m a big believer in picking your boss, not the job. Great people create great jobs.
I have great people around me, I have great training partners, and I think if you really want something you work for it and you get it.
Kenya is a land of great people, and during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, I remember meeting some Kenyan fans at the hotel where we were staying. It felt nice to see people from back home cheering and supporting me. Some even approached me; we talked, and they took pictures.
I’ve met some great people that deal with me in the press. I’ve also met some people that were very dishonorable, frankly.
Great people want to work on things that matter. Inevitably, a great person working on imaginary work will turn into an unsatisfied person.
I’ve just been blessed to work with these really great people.
When you’re on an independent film, you have a lot of great people there who are telling really true and authentic stories. But you also have a lot of con artists and people who think they can do something that they can’t.
Mum and dad worked so hard to help me and my brothers grow up as good people. They were both social workers, working with kids with learning disabilities. They are just great people. It means so much to me to make them proud.
A basic problem for people in politics is that approximately none have the hard skills necessary to distinguish great people from charlatans.
I always try to pick projects by: Is this something that excites me? What are the people like to work with? Obviously you spend a lot of time in a room together with them, so I always try to find projects that hopefully have great people attached.
I am surrounded by great people.
Idras Elba was from Forest Gate – where I am from – there are a lot of great people around if they can be given a chance or have the belief.
I am surrounded by great people.
I’ve got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there’s a parents’ night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
Oh, I’ve been ridiculously lucky to work for, I’d say, five of the greatest directors of all time… and a lot of other great people, too.
There are no great people. There are only great topics.
