Not exact matches
«Pogo riders today, mostly teenage risk -
takers who might otherwise favor skateboarding, can bounce
more than six feet in the air and perform spins and flips,» according to the article.
If you are a risk
taker, hire someone
who is
more conservative.
And in his essential book Give and Take, Wharton School professor Adam Grant shows that people like Swift
who are inclusive and giving end up being
more prosperous than those
who are what Grant calls «
takers.»
VimpelCom is also
more conservative than Sawiris,
who is a huge risk -
taker.
Risk -
takers tend to be
more successful than those
who like to play it safe.
Employees
who are risk -
takers will be
more willing to assume the risk associated with working in a startup, as they focus on the potential upside of success
more than the downside of failure.
The so - called risk
takers — the entrepreneurs, the wealthy middle - aged professionals
who try to climb Mount Everest, the artists
who pose against the background of transgression — are nothing
more than gamblers looking for a big payoff.
They are the ones
who use racist, nasty comments about the poor on welfare and call them «
takers» when in fact the Federal government spends 10 times
more on corporate tax loopholes and «corporate welfare» in subsidies to oil companies, the sugar and corn industries and many others.
While teens
who take virginity pledges do delay sexual activity until an average age of 21 (compared to about age 17 for the average American teen), the reason for the delay is
more likely due to pledge
takers» religious background and conservative views — not the pledge itself.
Ultimately, the risk -
takers of this world always end up trying
more things, meeting
more people and having
more varied experiences than those
who play it safe.
These teachers feel that they are abused, neglected, taken advantage and obviously
more important than the police officers, care
takers and other state employees
who don't average $ 47,000
who work just as hard and are just as dedicated to their career choice.
For years now, the College Board, the American College Testing program, and,
more recently, the National Assessment of Educational Progress have supplied data indicating that the percentage of 12th graders (or 12th - grade test -
takers)
who are truly ready for college coursework is somewhere below 40.
For the first time ever, the ACT proved
more popular this year among test
takers than the SAT — by a narrow margin of less than 2,000 test -
takers out of 1.65 million
who took each.
«[I] f anything, the newly identified students benefitted even
more from participating in gifted education than did the group of always
takers who [would] be identified under a traditional referral system,» the researchers observed.
The advisor, instead of being a «price
taker»
who gets paid only what suppliers will pay him, gets to earn a bit
more (good advice costs money, you know) and increases their revenue by 20 % while doing what is right for the client, sourcing out cheaper products, and passing along the lion's share of the savings.
From Ed Walters, CEO of Fastcase: «We get to recognize our heroes, the great thinkers, creators, and risk -
takers who make this such an interesting time to work in legal tech... [
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But there should be better options for travelers
who aren't risk
takers or don't want to deal with
more security or other aftershocks of terrorism.
And we also found that it definitely fulfills self - presentational needs because of people
who are very prone to particular self - presentation strategies in general — like showing their emotions or highlighting their personal strengths — they were also the
more popular selfie
takers.
But for the people
who use Notes because it's there, the formatting improvements and other additions to iOS's default note -
taker make it a
more full - featured app.