A Quote by Nathan Myhrvold

No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

Nathan Myhrvold

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Nathan Myhrvold
American - Businessman
Born: August 3, 1959

I've never like had a system or a program, I always think that I don't know how to act. I'll adapt to any director because I don't really have a set way that I do things. If a director hires me and says, "I want you to get started right now and do this research, this research, this research and I want you to have every line memorized before you ever show up for the first day," then that's what I'll do.

Jennifer Lawrence

I think, you know, a fellow CEO said to me that the interesting thing about being CEO that's really striking is that you have very few decisions that you need to make, and you need to make them absolutely perfectly.

Marissa Mayer

You do need more revenues, and you do need to cut expenses. But you also don't want to go in a direction whereby increasing taxes creates a reticence to create new jobs. You don't want to increase taxes on work. You don't want to increase taxes on investment and the creation of wealth.

Jose Angel Gurria

I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.

Alejandro Amenabar

Most innovation is not done by research institutes and national laboratories. It comes from manufacturing - from companies that want to extend their product reach, improve their costs, increase their returns. What's very important is in-house research.

Vaclav Smil

You want a CEO that understands they need to build a team around them that's sharper and smarter than they are.

Kobe Bryant

We need to not reduce but increase our commitment to research.

Elizabeth Esty

People want development, modern thinking. They want to encourage and support research in agriculture and other fields.

Sharad Pawar

Sometimes you need to encourage them sometimes even to comfort them, let them know I trust them. Sometimes you need to tell the truth, being more aggressive. That's management. I need to put the players in the best possible conditions.

Didier Deschamps

There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how to code. We need to encourage computer science as a major. We need to encourage entrepreneurism.

Jon Oringer

The majority of the research I do is archaeological research, but to me, as a professor, the most important thing is to encourage and mentor students.

Sarah Parcak

We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.

Victoria Osteen

We want to be the face of women's football, to encourage young girls to play. If I have to be recognised in the streets to encourage them, I'm happy to do that.

Fran Kirby

We want to encourage foreign students to come to our universities - to study, research and teach.

Ed Davey

I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community - that's the synthesis I want to achieve.