Without the big idea, it would never have seen the value of the small idea.
He encouraged farmers to plant five acres of wheat to supply flour to the local hotel, but he and some friends soon realized that the best value-added idea for the wheat was in a bottle of spirits.
On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.
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The claim that it could replace all taxes is reminiscent of the proponents of Land Value Taxation, the idea that Henry George outlined in Progress and Poverty.
They proceed along an S-shaped curve, with a few trail blazers lighting the way, followed every growing numbers of imitators who adopt the idea with its value demonstrated, but, then, a few laggards who for stupidity, pride, tradition, or whatever, hold on the methods that are outdated and unprofitable.
This helped strengthen my faith that the idea of value had not been lost on all investors.
According to Gensler, there is value in the idea of a brand or individual striving to be an influential force in their respective field.
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It would need refurbished, but they think the idea represents value for money, even with the cost of transporting all the pupils to Belfast once a week.
For starters, the idea that value creation is a one-way street from the top to the bottom is not just offensive, but it ignores the principle of comparative advantage, a key breakthrough in market theory.
The root cause of these errors is a focus on the dumbest idea in the world: maximizing shareholder value.
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An America where we value success and the idea that anyone can make it in this country.
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Since the idea of the value chain was first introduced, it has been taken in a number of different directions.
While the idea has its value, it also has its pitfalls.
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Keane says that just as many people have had specific pieces of furniture in their family for generations and have no intention of selling, while others still have no idea of the value of the furniture they own.
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Furthermore, those who pursue additional education for very defined goals (whether vocational, academic, etc.) certainly have some idea of the value of education: they know (or at least expect) actual benefits to accrue as a result of their study.
Mervyn Jacobson read about Simons' bumpy journey and was smitten with the idea of finding value in junk DNA. In 1989 they formed GeneType and applied for their first patent covering noncoding regions and HLA. In 2000 GeneType pulled off a reverse merger with a publicly traded Australian shell company that formerly mined for gold.
Toby Hartwell, managing director of The Folio Society said he liked the idea of "recognising literature of enduring value" and it seemed a "natural extension" of the business.
The idea of defining the value of the dollar in terms of the value of a fixed weight of gold is not a radical notion.
My latest edition of Hot List newsletter, reports that investors too often fall prey to the idea that growth and value are opposing concepts.
What is the core centralizing idea behind our value proposition?
"We will need to wait until these children are at least two years of age to get an idea about the therapeutic value of the new operation, " he said.
The idea of a Public Value Test is to make a judgment about the value of the service, balanced against the rest of the market and any potential harm to competitors.
But the world's Friedmanites have waged a relentless guerrilla war against the idea, denouncing it as a farrago of value-destroying nonsense.
If the idea was to create shareholder value, the board ignored important aspects of that value.
Firstly, we have a rough idea of what is the value of a statistical life.
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But he took to the idea of writing something of value to an underclass doomed to grow up illiterate.
The idea is to provide more value to our readers so they can make smart decisions, achieve fresh insights, and influence the global conversation.
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The idea of writing down the value of financial assets when the market for them is seriously impaired or doesn't exist is sheer folly.
And this reform will charge insurance companies a fee for their most expensive policies, which will encourage them to provide greater value for the money -- an idea which has the support of Democratic and Republican experts.
One factor that makes indexing "a horrendous idea, " the renowned value investor Seth Klarman of Baupost Group argued earlier this year, is that hedge funds and others have long beaten the index funds to the punch on trades that the autopilot portfolios are forced to make.
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