Over lunch in Manhattan Laurence Hallier stops eating and starts gesturing wildly toward a window.
There is an apocryphal story about how Henry Ford liked to interview over lunch as well.
Over lunch in Portland a few weeks ago, I asked Mr. Soles about the early years.
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Over lunch, the editor of FORBES magazine, Randall Lane, did a one-on-0ne interview with Buffett.
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Olsen, yet another multilevel marketer, became TNI's fifth partner after Wadsworth recounted his arthritis experiments over lunch.
Under the program, mentors and mentees meet every three weeks for 90 minutes over lunch or coffee.
"We didn't have any money, " he tells me, over lunch, his black Aston Martin parked out front.
Following a meeting with Myanmar-based diplomats over lunch, he met with civil society and ethnic and opposition groups.
"I can't imagine being married to someone who isn't doing the same work, " she said over lunch recently.
Over lunch we discussed "green" buildings (this megadeveloper thought the best environmental measures are those applied during construction).
But as Tony Coles points out, the process must involve something more transformative than offering advice over lunch.
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This gibes with what Joel Kremke, senior vice president of Covisint, told me over lunch the other day.
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Over lunch one day "Lew told me, 'You can't take a battlefield home and look at it, '" recalls Gilder.
Over lunch I asked one of my clients, the CEO of a rapidly growing company, for his job description.
People sometimes hear things from the next table over lunch, I was told.
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"I can't just let loose the way nonclassical players do, " he admits over lunch at his hotel near Lincoln Center.
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One day, over lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant in a Las Vegas strip mall, Robbins demonstrated his method on me.
Over lunch at McDonald's and an afternoon tour of Delhi's ancient Red Fort, they started getting to know each other.
He and Medford hit it off at a conference in Florence, sharing their research over lunch at a nearby trattoria.
"I like saying things that drive people around the bend, " said Mr. Buiter over lunch recently at Citigroup's downtown New York offices.
Over lunch at the Village Pub in Woodside, entrepreneurs including Dropbox Inc.
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The two of them meet about once a year, sometimes over lunch.
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They will be discussed over lunch and five hours later the motorcades will be heading for the airport or the Gare du Midi.
In the back of the dining room where, over lunch, Don was delivering his well-reasoned predictions, some more subversive minds were at work.
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Impressing a client over lunch or dinner is guaranteed at Zazu, a trendy restaurant in the Mariscal neighbourhood started by masterful German restaurateur Jan Niedrau.
Over lunch at the Justus Lipsius building, the 27 EU heads of government were due to hold an emergency debate on north Africa.
They approach the issue of what to do with the undocumented in the third person, like rich folks who talk about poverty over lunch.
Think of investors doing due-diligence as the most thorough stalking job you could imagine, one prospective angel investor joked to me over lunch at Pipeline.
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Over lunch at the private Mory's club last week, we marvel over the first-ever NCAA championship for Yale's hockey team, the oldest program in the country.
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We pitched him on the concept over lunch and a beer and he was on board and ready to write a check before we finished eating.
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