Sentences with phrase «letters written years»
The letters you write each year during Operation Dear Abby really do make a difference.
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Sergey Brin was responsible for writing Alphabet's Founders Letter this year.
This year, though, Brin kicked off the Founders Letter with a quote taken from the very beginning of «A Tale of Two Cities,» a book written over 150 years ago by Charles Dickens — a historical fiction about the French Revolution.
In 2006, 8 - year - old Copeny wrote a letter to President Barack Obama in which she referred to herself as «Little Miss Flint.»
Warren Buffett once wrote this little gem of a statement in one of his annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders years back: «It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.
Years ago, he met a middle school student on a class tour through DC who was struggling with his stutter, and wrote him a letter: «You can beat it just like I did.
Sebastian's was to write a letter to his 12 - year - old daughter, similar to this one his father gave him.
I then wrote a story - based sales letter that was themed to the start of the year, and I made sure to include an amazing offer.
And fifteen years ago when I wrote my first manuscript, that's where my query letters to literary agents went to die.
While such communications are less common today, those of us who do write «holiday letters» continue to fill them with highlights from the year: the addition of new family members (including adored pets), that annual vacation we took and notable milestones.
«Our energy generation and storage business is positioned for accelerating growth later this year,» Tesla wrote in its letter.
As Sergey and I wrote in the original founders letter 11 years ago, «Google is not a conventional company.
WESTFIELD, N.J. (AP)-- A love letter lost in the walls of a New Jersey home has reached a World War II veteran 72 years after it was written.
It could take the form of a letter to yourself, written from five years in the future, describing all you've accomplished and how it came about.
I know this for myself but now since writing about it for almost four years I can tell you from the letters I get that it works for others.
But what most people seem to have missed is that this year's Berkshire (brk - a) letter also contained some of the best investment advice the Oracle of Omaha has ever written down.
In his resignation letter, Leeb wrote that he broke many myths in Pontiac, «the biggest of which was the value of the Silverdome and that it should be kept indefinitely, even though it had been sapping the lifeblood of the City for many years.»
Greenlight Capital, one of the hedge fund industry's most closely watched firms, lost 13.6 percent so far this year, Einhorn wrote in a letter to clients...
In last year's annual letter to Berkshire shareholders, Buffett wrote, «America's best days lie ahead.»
«In case you were wondering,» Dimon wrote in a letter to shareholders three years ago.
Years later, when Corcoran was in contention to be one of the judges on Shark Tank, she had the job, lost it to another female entrepreneur, and then won it back by writing a letter to the production team telling them what they would lose out on if they didn't hire her for the team.
Last year, in his annual letter to Berkshire shareholders, Buffett wrote that some of his best investments over the years have been in real estate.
And Warren was reading from a letter that was written 10 years before Sessions was even elected to the Senate.
«After 7 years last Friday was my last day with Wells Fargo,» Tyrel Oates wrote on Facebook attaching a copy of the letter he sent to John Stumpf, the CEO of Wells Fargo (See below).
«It currently looks like we will come in at the low end of, or slightly below, the financial guidance we issued to the Street, and we have fallen short of the internal operating plan we set one year ago,» he wrote in a letter to employees.
The missives evolved into a long - distance courtship, and the two married ten years after Orr wrote his first letter.
Last year, Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein wrote in a shareholder letter just how competitive it is to get an analyst position at Goldman.
«In recent years, Scott and I have discussed the potential for him to leave PS and form his own firm,» Mr. Ackman wrote in the letter.
«I signed on with the company almost four years ago and it has truly been the experience of a lifetime helping Uber become the fastest growing company of all - time — spanning 75 countries with over 14,000 employees,» Michael wrote in his goodbye letter, first posted on The New York Times.
Shelby Speno said her 13 - year - old son wrote President Donald Trump for help in curbing gun violence, but got back a letter that had the president vowing to fight for gun rights.
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«I hired you several years ago to critique a sales letter I wrote and I was thrilled with your services.»
«After years of military modernization, China shows the ability to wage war against Taiwan for the first time since the 1950s,» the GOP senators wrote in a letter.
«As we enter the new year, some 2 1/2 years since the floodgates opened, we urge Uber to «lean in» and join the ranks of technology companies that are reporting your diversity and inclusion data,» Jackson wrote in a letter to Kalanick in January, which TechCrunch obtained.
«Ohio's 4 million households would pay, on average, as much as $ 528 more for their electric service under Senate Bill 58 over a utility's three - year energy efficiency plan,» Ohio's consumer counsel, Bruce Weston, wrote in a letter this week to Senate leaders.
David Gould, a prominent entrepreneur within the community, who was inspired by Hsieh's charisma and ideas to leave his job as a professor in the University of Iowa and move to Las Vegas earlier this year, wrote an open letter to Hsieh, published today in Las Vegas Weekly:
Jeff Bezos has been writing an annual letter to shareholders since 1997, and he attaches that original letter to one he pens every year.
«We are seeing a paradox of high returns and high anxiety,» he wrote in a letter last year to fellow bigwig CEOs, warning that even those who have seen success in recent years can't help but notice how many others are persistently falling behind.
Legendary investor Warren Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK - A, BRK - B), writes in his newest annual letter that his ten - year - long bet with a hedge fund manager delivered an «unforeseen investment lesson.»
In GMOs most recent letter, Jeremy Grantham leads off the piece with, «At GMO these days we argue over three very different pathways to a similar dismal 20 - year outlook for pension fund returns... A problem for investors following GMO's writing is which of these three alternatives to choose»
In this year's letter to shareholders, Buffett writes that, «Charlie [Munger] and I view the marketable common stocks that Berkshire owns as interests in businesses, not as ticker symbols to be bought or sold based on their «chart» patterns, the «target» prices of analysts or the opinions of media pundits.
John Mauldin writes in his letter: «Camp Kotok, as it has come to be called, was quite special this year.
(I wrote about VRSN in this summary as well as in last year's investor letter — Saber Capital owns VRSN).
Later on in that section of the letter, Buffett wrote: «For most American railroads, 2015 was a disappointing year.
Sarah, a parent, said one fifth - grader wrote in a letter to Congress: «I'm 10 years old; in 8 years, I will vote to change this.
«As we look ahead to the remainder of the year, we remain optimistic about our ability to execute on our priorities and deliver value for advertisers on our platform,» Twitter wrote in a letter to shareholders.
A real example of this premise is a teenage girl named Shauna Fleming who a few years back started a letter writing initiative called «A Million Thanks.»
He has been writing about this in his quarterly letters for GMO for a number of years now.
The Bishop of Lancaster, Michael Campbell, wrote in his new year's day pastoral letter that parishes needed to «address some demanding questions that will grow larger the longer we put them off»:
Indeed, Shaw's affection for Chesterton was on full display in a mournful letter written to his widow Frances the day after his death, calling it «ridiculous that I, 18 years older than Gilbert, should be heartlessly surviving him.»