Showing off is a good way to inflate either an ego or the value of a collection.
Now 37, she recalls getting an ego boost after losing a significant amount under the cover of winter clothing.
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Creativity requires curiosity, questioning assumptions, resisting conventional thinking, and an ego with the courage to be wrong a lot.
Pumping the earnings for the sole purpose of beating Wall Street analysts' predictions as kind of an ego thing.
Enormously, brilliantly and intuitively talented in his game, but afflicted with an ego and self-will that was his worst enemy.
As an artist and somebody on television I have enough of an ego that I don't want to look that stupid.
Mixing self-deprecating humor with an ego to match his bulging wallet, this 57-year-old entertainment titan is unlikely to let his money sit.
Newt Gingrich has a bunch of spouse problems, an ego problem, a messaging problem, and a country that remembers his previous antics issue.
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It seems like the days of the teenage virus writer, roaming the Net in search of an ego boost, may soon be missed.
Obama, who is not without an ego, regarded himself as just as gifted as his top strategists in the art and practice of politics.
She sets the limits and hoists, when needed, an ego-deflating eyebrow.
On balance, though, it seems like the days of the teenage virus writer, roaming the Net in search of an ego boost, may soon be missed.
Eventually the board brought in Carly to replace Platt, she was the first CEO from outside the company and definitely the first one with an ego.
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His seven batting titles, his 3600 hits, his three Most Valuable Player awards (and the list goes on and on) never seemed to have an ego impact.
But we should at least acknowledge the value of an ego-less decision that reflects humility and concern about the very institution the pope pledged his life to.
Under the second, more desirable outcome, financial intermediation will aim to be more of a service, less of an ego-trip for the participants, and considerably less well paid.
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Second attempt was to buy Yahoo, but Ballmer bungled that with an ego as big as his head, and probably a hundred execs and managers below him advising him .
There's an ego-satisfying rush about erecting a massive tower.
Such automated systems are designed to eliminate confusion and missteps because they provide objective control and amount to "the only pilot in the cockpit without an ego, " according to Honeywell's Mr. Esposito.
After all your effort, you might not even get credited at the end of a film, but for the average movie crew member, seeing your name on-screen isn t much of an ego boost anyway.
If you think the rest of the world is interested in hearing about your collection of Ottoman porcelain or why "The Catcher in the Rye" is the great American novel (yawn) you really do need an ego the size of a house.
But lists like this, besides providing an ego-check, do serve a purpose: they give us the chance to put the slow weeks before the holidays to get cozy with the thesaurus button (Shift-F7 for those not in-the-know) and rework out professional paperwork before the new year comes calling.
Although Mr Ellison is capable of charming the birds from a tree, an outsized ego and an unrelenting customer-focus do not usually go hand in hand.
He also encouraged her to create an alter ego who exuded those desirable traits.
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It was also there, while seeking fresh ideas, that Gates came up with an alter ego: Yamaguchi.
Four years ago, a motorcycle accident paralyzed his right arm, and the event inspired him to develop an alter ego.
This is the hubris mentioned at the beginning of the article, an inflated ego that eventually costs the company money.
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