But the Bain Capital partners told me that Romney shunned start-ups and did not want to take the risk of investing in my idea.
Jon Ramer: Embedded in my history and deep in my bones is the idea that our purpose here on earth is to help mend and heal the world.
This year, I had been mulling in my mind the idea of exchanging fewer gifts at the large family dinner we do each year.
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But for me, as the CEO of a marketing idea company, my first reaction in hearing about this idea was, in a word, visceral.
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In my mind the key idea here is that of being forced out of context.
It has to be architecturally appropriate for the idea in my head.
' And I said, 'Excuse me, you went to Warner Bros. with an idea of how you were going to do Batman, and you're saying I'm supposed to do Superman, but I don't have the idea in my head.
He said the choice of portraits in the exhibition was "my idea of the icons of the 20th century".
That's what got me into my first campaign and it's that same idea that I believe in, in my last campaign. (Applause.) It's the reason I'm here today.
This idea was simmering in my (long) list of to-dos somewhere far down from the top.
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School trips are a good idea in principle and my children have been on all sorts.
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In my mind this is the fractal idea with concern from and connections between all levels advancing the city, county, region, state, country, globe , galaxy.
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"It was when someone talked to me about Bugsy Malone that the idea lit up in my head, " he said, with a reference to Alan Parker's 1976 musical gangster film which boasted a cast of child actors.
In my experience, few startups get the idea and product perfect right out of the gate.
In my last post I talked about the idea of retailers listening to their customers.
The whole idea of marriage, in my view, is to have someone you love by your side.
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In my view, this is another bad idea that will hurt our marketplace.
My heart thumps much faster, however, when I imagine what my life would be like today had I stayed in the corporate world and pursued someone else's idea of what my life was meant to be.
For example, when I worked in finance, I hated the idea that my identity was linked to my work.
"The idea for Jinze had been in my head since I was young, growing up in Hong Kong, " Chang explained.
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One winter day, a pipe burst in our basement, and my mother had no idea what to do, so I called my father and figured out how to fix it.
It had been my idea to have the picnic in the parks by the railroad tracks where my dad used to take me to watch the trains when I was a boy.
Update: As I was posting this, an email with a quote from the CEO of Collective Bias, John Andrews, arrived in my inbox that affirms this well-established idea that online marketing is changing.
In some of my earlier comments I applauded the idea of a transition away from heavy promotions to a saner marketing program but also wrote of the need to promote in such a challenging economic and competitive market.
Back in March, 2011 when I had the idea to start Opportunity Works, Inc. a staffing company with a focus on placing people with disabilities in the workforce, I must confess, my idea was not to start a company at all.
And with all due respect to Brendan and the other winners, the singularly most promising business idea has not once won, in my opinion.
It underscores an idea that my colleagues and I in IBM's business analytics consulting practice have been discussing with clients for more than a year.
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