His subordinates thought him crazy, just as he had thought Burnside crazy when he was a subordinate, but he had his plan in mind.
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Organisers campaigning to save Lewisham Hospital say the plans are "crazy and ill thought out".
The number 1 US auto firm sold SAAB to Spyker (Netherlands) in January 2010 in a deal that MarketMind thought was crazy.
When we open-sourced our cloud technology, a lot of people thought we were crazy.
When he first started the company ten years ago, people thought he was crazy.
He dropped the idea and his original partners--they "thought I was crazy" anyway, he says.
The Russians thought he was crazy to spend that much on rivers and barren territory.
And when she said that to me years back, I thought she was crazy.
Those around him, including his carpenter father, thought he was crazy and laughed at him.
Many people ( including me) thought Sony was crazy for sticking to MPEG-2 for their Blu-ray offerings.
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"The recognizers, those giant staple looking things, I thought those were crazy cool, " said iReporter Steve Hungsberg.
Now some people thought he was crazy to do that because the post has been considered largely ceremonial.
The broker also thought it was crazy to open two stores at once.
Colleagues thought he was crazy to leave North America, where Merrill was strongest.
"People thought you were crazy if you collected something like that, " he laughs.
Again colleagues thought he was crazy to set up a situation where other VCs could network and benefit from his connections.
S. contracts by the truckload and Wall Street thought he was crazy.
"At the time everyone thought we were crazy, " says Leiweke, who has spoken with Anschutz "every day" while running AEG for the past 15 years.
"My girlfriend at the time thought I was crazy, " says Molinari.
Mr. FRED SULTERS (Employee, Springs Industries): Everybody here - my mom told me when I considered going somewhere else to work she thought I was crazy.
One of the things that we did last year was take on a defense program that many thought we were crazy to try to go after and try to cut.
While designers thought Hyman was crazy to try to build a business renting fashionable duds, the proof is in the pudding, three million users and 35, 000 dresses of pudding that is.
But I'm reminded of what people used to say when I started AOL. Most thought we were crazy to think consumers would want interactivity and a new medium could be created.
The fact that various acquaintances thought Garrido was crazy and actually saw Dugard and her daughters reveals how willing we sometimes are to ignore the strange behavior of others, and how this willingness can sometimes allow criminals to operate with impunity for years.
"My family thought it was a crazy hobby that perhaps I might grow out of, " he says.
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He thought the board was crazy to put Jobs back in charge.
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