"My friends, family--when I first came to Herbalife--wondered what I was doing, " he confides.
When I first came to Asia in 2005, the majority of our leadership were expats.
When I first came to China, the conventional wisdom was that pizza would never catch on here.
But I discovered football when I first came to New York in the late 1980s and my prejudices melted away.
When I first came to Sacramento, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak had not yet invented their personal computer.
When I first came to NBC, I thought it was going to be swimming with the sharks, all men for themselves, be careful and all that.
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When I first came to China almost 20 years ago, a Chinese partner could not be expected to make its equity contribution in a joint venture in cash.
Chinese companies today have much more cash than when I first came to China, and are now able to hire the best people in the world and to acquire overseas companies as a way to gain access to needed technology.
And it is consistent with the approach that I indicated I would take when I first came into office when it comes to Latin America and Central America.
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"When David first came, I believed he was committed to what he was doing, " said Donovan.
When I read this, the first thing that came to mind was a USB stick.
"When Alex first came to me, I was hesitant, " de la Renta says.
When we first came to Iran, I was four.
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My first job when I came into office was to make sure that we got the financial crisis under control and that we tried to limit the devastating effects that it was having on the real economy.
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It was fantastic to get my first cap and when the chance (to score) came I felt comfortable, I felt confident.
When that idea first came to me, I figured my work was half done.
When I came to Liverpool I was in the first team after six weeks.
When I first escaped the wilds of the Norfolk Broads and came to art school in London in the 1960s it was a Mini that took me there, thus starting me on my journey into adult life.
When I came to this country from Romania, I first landed in Detroit.
Sergey and I first heard about Android back in 2004, when Andy Rubin came to visit us at Google.
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Sheri McCoy: When I first came in, I spent a lot of time going out to our largest and most important markets like Brazil, Mexico and China, meeting with the management teams and, importantly, with representatives.
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"When I first came in (a couple of years ago), I talked to the dean and said, 'You know, scientists and engineers are known for a lot of things but they're not really known to be quiet people, '" Colegrove said.
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When I came into this job two years ago, almost my first job was to cover the outcome of the Hutton Inquiry.
Now, when I first came into office, one of the most important things that we had to do was to help states and local communities not lay off teachers.
"I'll get there, " she says, recalling that when she first came back to open a Hong Kong store with her label in 1993, salespeople told her to take the "Made in China" label off the clothes.
The pictures bring to mind the work of Steve Pyke, whose portraits World War I veterans first came to my attention back in the mid-1990s when they were on show at the old headquarters of the Royal Photographic Society in Bath.
They need to extend the tuition tax credit that we put in place when I first came into office that saves middle-class families thousands of dollars.
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"The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music, " he recalled in Dirty Linen magazine in 1995.
When I first came home, there were months of isolation where I was too proud and too ashamed to talk about my feelings -- a downward spiral that almost ended in suicide.
Then a couple months ago when it came time to finalize the song to go into the first episode, I checked my gut and I talked to our cast members and it just didn't feel right.
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