Sentences with phrase «who thought»

Solar industry insiders aren't the only ones who thought it was unethical.

About a year ago, we asked our venture partner Scott Belsky who he thought had the greatest potential to become one of the best investors of the next decade.

«I don't think there was anybody on the planet who thought that Michael Cohen, out of the goodness of his heart, wrote a $ 130,000 check to Stormy Daniels without seeking any reimbursement,» Dent continued.

In Hanfree's case, Singh wasn't the only one who thought the product looked good.

There was a bunch of people who thought the same as I did and who joined me.

For those of us who thought that unicorns don't exist, Starbucks is here to tell us that we're wrong.

Anyone who thought heavily indebted households would take the money and run to their nearest malls will be disappointed.

If there was a Prince Charming who thought he could make money doing whatever that facility used to do, he probably would have shown up by now.

Despite this quietly mounting dissent, it was Flaherty's vocal lobbying that was credited with stalling the proposal during a meeting of Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers last month, while also garnering mild shock from international reporters who thought Canadians were meant to be conciliatory.

Its five - minute sessions are for young professionals on the go — the busy and skeptical people like Kim who thought meditation would never work for them.

I was sitting in our lounge area one day, and I looked up and saw who I thought was one of the world's top poker pros.

He encouraged anyone who thought they might have been exposed, or who had any information that could be relevant to contact him or speak with the embassy's security officer.

And anyone who thought over night that we would heal wounds that are old and deep was being naïve.

«For example, there's a woman who thought that she needed to raise $ 90,000 for her small business.

I think there were some people in this country who thought that all was well because of the symbolism of our first black president.

The «difficult men» are at once the characters who defined this current golden age of television — Tony Soprano, Don Draper, Walter White — and the obsessive, cantankerous men who thought them up, including Chase, but also Matt Weiner (Mad Men), David Milch (NYPD Blue and Deadwood) and others.

But Nic had this idea for his character who thought himself somewhat foolishly as Humphrey Bogart, so he was doing Bogart things, which I wasn't that crazy about, but I wasn't going to pick a fight over it.

I was one of those engineers who thought, «Why are these people making those dumb decisions?»

«Those of us who thought we were brilliant rainmakers during the boom and pieces of crap during the downturn have now decided we're neither,» he concludes.

But it creates a revolving door of relationships with people who thought they had something in common with you, then slowly realize the only thing you have in common is that you both like you.

«How that company dealt with the issue had an effect: Among the people who thought the brand dealt with the conflict very ineffectively, only 13 percent shop at the same levels they used to.»

(I have yet to meet an entrepreneur who thought he or she sold too soon.)

Just ask the investors who thought energy stocks were a screaming bargain in the fall of 2014 — just months before the oil price collapsed.

In the survey, 60 percent of respondents who felt underpaid said they intended to leave their employer, compared with just 39 percent of those who thought they were overpaid.

FiveThirtyEight pointed out that the number of people who thought tax cuts enacted under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush would help the rich more than the middle class increased after those plans passed.

That was immediately called into question by another Musk follower who thought the complaining customer couldn't possibly actually be a Tesla supporter.

Again, participants received the same ear plugs, but those who thought theirs were made by 3M got significantly more questions right.

Entrepreneurs: Eric Stackpole, a former NASA intern who thought space exploration was going to be his career, and David Lang, who managed a San Francisco - based sailing school before joining a crowdfunding startup that later flopped.

I once knew a pretty abusive and mercurial (bad combination in itself) editor - in - chief who thought he was sending an email to his editor ripping apart two reporters that he thought should be fired.

Wall recalls pushing back against the senior executive who thought she'd be better off with a resume that appeared male.

Evidently, I wasn't the only one who thought that.

Those who thought this breaks the laws of physics didn't have understanding of how the [uBeam] system worked, or what the basic specs are.»

And this changed my perspective about who I thought I was and who I was striving to be.

Howard approached a finance person, David, who he thought could be his CFO.

I wasn't the only one who thought so.

While positive for markets, this can be seen as a negative to those who thought a SYRIZA victory might force EU leaders» hands on more fiscal integration and a new crisis approach.

There's a long - standing myth about intellectual property — the idea that a creative idea is proprietary to the person who thought of it.

I hear people say that they heard of someone who thought they had lots of battery charge and then two kilometers down the road, the car has no power.»

His biggest victory this year may have come at the end of October, when Tesla announced that it had its second profitable quarter in the company's history, shocking analysts who thought that the company would be reporting yet another loss.

That can work wonders, and I've heard of a few friends who thought iOS 11 seemed faster after a reboot.

Some voters in Jefferson County ended up crossing party lines to cast their ballots for who they thought was the best candidate in each of the races — defying the practice of party line voting in an election that showed a deep red - blue political divide.

Early on, I'd fixate on the fact that people would only work for someone who they thought knew more than them in a given subject area.

The study found students who thought on their own conceived nearly twice as many solutions to a series of creative puzzles than did those working in brainstorming groups.

But I've never seen a nominee — from either party — who I thought represented such a danger to everything the United States stands for.

Those memories are precious, but I wouldn't have them, and neither would Kent, if we had decided to hang out only with students who thought the same way we did.

George Stephen was not a man who thought small.

Henry Huttleston Rogers came up with the machinery by which naphtha could be separated from crude oil and was also the guy who thought of using long pipelines to transport oil instead of railway cars.

«Electric cars were made for people who thought that driving was a necessary evil,» says Martin Eberhard, co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors.

The students who thought they could solve it did.

Stories abound describing entrepreneurs who thought they had a sure thing in hand, only to find out they needed to pivot or lose it all.