We can ill afford to have activities conducted as "non-profit," that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if they can be organized as activities that form capital, as activities that make a profit.
A risk-insensitive leverage ratio can be a useful backstop to risk-based capital requirements. But such a ratio can have perverse incentives if it is the binding capital requirement because it treats relatively safe activities, such as central clearing, as equivalent to the most risky activities.
Once you establish what activities your company needs to do, the next question is, 'How do these activities get accomplished?' i.e. what resources do I need to make the activities happen?
You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one.
If you let social activities take precedence over your academic activities, then you will soon lose your basketball activities.
Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.
Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or systematically ordered. But the collision between spontaneous activities and technique is catastrophic for the spontaneous activities.
When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done
The club that kills can drive a stake into the ground to hold a shelter. The hands that build bombs can be used to build schools. The minds that coordinate the activities of violence can coordinate the activities of cooperation. When the activities of life are infused with reverence, they come alive with meaning and purpose.
Our global structuring activities and restructuring activities really don't impact India.
The activities you are most afraid of are the activities that can cause a breakthrough in your success. Step into them.
Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities.
As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
Those who are not giving up their nefarious activities even in the holy month of Ramzan, should their activities not be called unholy?
I didn't have the luxury of devoting myself entirely to not-for-profit activities.
It became known that I had a rather fertile imagination, when it came to private activities." She stared. "What sort of private activities?" This time he did smile, and it turned his face wicked. "Disrobe, and I'll be happy to demonstrate.
A hacker doesn't deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.