"When you create wealth in a short time, you think about philanthropy as you think about a business, " says Omidyar, a compact, soft-spoken man.
So for me to stand up here and say that in 45 minutes, I might alter the way you think about a concept as fundamental as investing, is a tall order.
You think about a company like Google that only 20 years ago was -- less than 20 years ago was the idea of a couple of people not much older than you.
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So while you're sitting around with the other patients in your pajamas and everybody's pale and thin and you're waiting for your turn to get the gamma rays, you think about a lot of things.
"If you think about a dial-up connection to the Internet and I was to get a very big file -- a huge file -- something that normally would take me on a dial-up connection 10 hours to download, I would download using this at one second, " explains Terabeam CEO Dan Hesse.
Many of you, over here, when you think about American universities you have a tendency to think about Harvard or Yale or Stanford or MIT - all wonderful universities - and I've had occasion to attend them and also teach at, at least, one of those prestigious universities.
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It's a dream come true -- something you think about as a little kid growing up.
What I'd like to ask you to think about a little today and to share with you, and I'll try to do it without taking my spectacles out, but I don't write very well and I don't read too well as I get older, is what I think this meant for us today.
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When you set out to buy a house, you think carefully about how big a house you can afford, but in the end you are not poorer for the money you spent, because you acquired something useful, namely, a new home.
If you work on tax policy for a living, you have to think about a lot of complicated issues.
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However, these nuances are material for another day, because before you can even think about a term sheet, you need to understand the larger funding landscape and make a decision about which sources of funding are the best match for your business plan and needs.
They suggest that everything you think you know about creating a viral video is wrong.
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Anything that makes you feel a bit unnerved when you think about it is a great place to start.
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And if you are in business, you can think all you want about a new product or service, but until you act on the idea there is nothing tangible to show for all that thought.
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If you think about it for a moment, you can see the weakness with this sort of approach.
That is similarly lucrative to a transfer fee this summer when you think about what you can achieve with a player like that.
After -- a little while after that, I think you start to think a little bit about the people who are back on Earth that are most precious to you, and then that little bit of loneliness can kick in.
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If that's not obvious, maybe you ought to think about a new line of work.
If you think about it, a kiss on the cheek when you fall over is a placebo.
When you think about it, a year is an extraordinary amount of time.
When you think about it for a minute, that logic makes no sense.
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Which will, if you think about it for a moment, clearly reduce the mobility of labour across said State lines.
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Liquidity may not be the first characteristic you think about when evaluating a potential investment, but it is something to factor in to your decision.
And, as in any convertible, it will make you think twice about wearing a baseball cap, lest it gets whipped off your skull at speed.
However, when you think about it, a low student-teacher ratio goal, is specifically a low-productivity goal inconsistent with productivity increases needed to stretch scarce tax and tuition dollars.
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He rejects Mr Romney's apparent contention that 47% of voters were out of reach for Republicans, which was always, when you think about it, a counsel of despair.
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