The problem, Malone says, is that some investors like growth, some like earnings, and nobody likes a muddy mix of the two.
He moves around and looks like he likes to come in straight at you.
"I feel like society likes to highlight our differences so much, to make us feel so isolated and so separated and so different, " James said.
There's also a sense, fostered by the companies themselves with slogans such as "Travel like a human" and "Live like a local", that the likes of Airbnb and Onefinestay are the continuation of a decidedly non-commercial travel trend.
Sir George Buckley, the boss of 3M, a big firm with a 109-year history of innovation, argues that companies like his can combine the virtues of creativity and scale. 3M likes to conduct lots of small experiments, just like a start-up.
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He's entitled to like whatever he likes, as long as he doesn't say it.
For example, it measures engagement by considering things like Comments, Likes and posts.
He especially likes solutions, like True Office, that meet needs across the industry.
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Ms. Jones likes older bands like Kiss, but said she isn't sure so much time and money should be spent studying them.
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We look at signals like tips, likes, dislikes, popularity, loyalty, local expertise, and nearly 3 billion check-ins from over 25 million people worldwide.
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He also likes pipeline operators like Oneok, Enterprise Products and Buckeye, which are gobbling up superb assets that were often built by large oil companies and utilities.
Brian Moore, senior lecturer in ethical hacking and network security at Coventry University, said the general perception of how cyber criminals operated had been "glamourised and completely falsified by the likes of shows like CSI and NCIS".
Several stocks that Buckingham favors, like Home Depot and Whirlpool, have also had strong advances in stock price like the builders, but Buckingham likes their prospects for moving higher still.
He likes unglamorous niche products like the "middleware" that insurers use to link various databases.
Lord Goldsmith may thunder all he likes, but people like their news now, rather than later.
Finding someone you like and your team likes can take a long time.
Audrey Kaplan, a fund manager at Federated, says she likes sell-offs like these.
As for the likes of Conference clubs like Luton, they have a revenue-sharing TV deal worth almost nothing last season.
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And America, like other donors, likes to specify which projects it wishes to fund, to the annoyance of Mr Karzai's central government.
Nobody likes seeing an institution like the Boy Scouts dragged into litigation.
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He likes certain Internet startups like LinkedIn--Alger participated in the initial offering but quickly sold out--because they don't burn cash as quickly as fast-growing traditional manufacturing firms.
Yet its pain pales into comparison with that felt by the likes of online retailers like Suning, Gome and 360buy.com, which are struggling to clear inventory from their warehouses.
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In his capacity as owner of the Dallas Mavericks Cuban likes to do things like work out with the team, and in the footage that occasionally surfaces you can practically hear the players rolling their eyes: Good shot, Mr. Cuban!
Mr. Cue is an avid music listener like Mr. Jobs and likes artists including Bruce Springsteen.
Nondesigner chic has its limits, however, particularly in places like China where new money likes a fancy name on a label.
Actually, Glencore likes the prospects for commodities like copper, nickel and aluminum.
Miyauchi likes to talk of things like shareholders' rights and customer satisfaction, concepts that normally concern Western managers much more than Japanese ones.
"No-one likes to concede two goals like that and we haven't been doing that this season, we haven't been guilty of that aspect, " Smith said.
High school athletic associations (and the NCAA) are like the weather: everyone likes to complain about them, but no one seems to do anything about them.
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On the sector side of things, Jain likes Indian banks, pharmaceuticals like Dr. Reddys ( RDY) and autos like Tata Motors ( TTM) based on growth adjusted valuations.
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