India is a country with huge potential, and it remains an attractive high priority market for PepsiCo. We believe we have only scratched the surface of long term growth opportunities that exist for PepsiCo and our partners.
I had to look at white people as fellow South Africans and fellow partners in building a new South Africa.
I was always an independent, even when I had partners.
My choices in romantic partners have not been conventional, and therefore, the idea that it is ‘other’ makes it compelling.
The simple fact is that when our foreign partners are more secure, so are we.
We have an amazing engineering team in the company pushing the limits of device physics and some great partners in manufacturing.
I’ve got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.
No more top-down politics with Westminster dictating what’s right for every community. We must all be partners in designing a better future for our country.
Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don’t form it.
In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world’s children.
I did not fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I am not his employer. I do not have such authority. And even if I did, I would never fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I love Brian Wilson. We are partners. He’s my cousin by birth and my brother in music.
The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers – the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution partners. Why should they give away their profit margins?
But NESV has always had debt from the first day we purchased the Red Sox. We have some partners who look at Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and almost demand that we have debt as a consequence.
The day in 2011 that I went to the office of the city clerk in lower Manhattan with my partner Dustin to register for our domestic partnership was coincidentally also the first day same-sex partners were allowed to register for marriage in the state of New York.
It is never helpful to point at sticking points, but it is always helpful to encourage one’s partners to take a more active and forward-looking approach.
Apparently only a third of us know our partners phone PIN, so the majority of people keep it secret. I find that really surprising, I think if my husband’s PIN was secret I’d be so suspicious of what he was hiding.
As a leader, you sit at a different level of perspective from your team, either with line of sight higher and across the organization structure or connected at more senior levels with your clients and partners.
You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.
I don’t want people to be lonely. I would like them to find partners.
The idea of a family sitting round the kitchen table and carefully planning their future family size based on the certainty of years to come is a complete fantasy. Back in the real world, jobs are lost, livelihoods taken away, families break apart, partners leave or pass away.
The difference between a gas and a liquid is that in the former, the atoms and molecules move to and fro in an independent existence, whereas in the latter, they are always in touch with one another, though they are changing partners continually.
You’re as strong as the actors you’re working with, your partners.
I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That’s such a difficult constraint, we can’t have any other constraints.
If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow ‘second class’ that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any case, be turned around by redefining the law of marriage.
I was cast in commercials, music videos, and booked a lot of modeling jobs. But my acting career never took off because I was holding myself back. I was acting across from male partners who didn’t know that I am trans. I was being taught by teachers who didn’t know.
The biggest thing that I learned is when you’re building something – especially a project that requires partners – you have to make sure that there is a lot of overlapping desire and a lot of overlapping alignment with the people that you’re doing work with.
We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.
