Sublime

Bob quickly calculates the value based on the factors he and Yusimi discussed: $6 million over three years × 50% for the project’s contribution to the goal × 50% for the consultant’s contribution × 80% estimated likelihood of success

Three years into his career at Jane Street, he remained fully committed to generating as many dollars as possible and channeling them into the causes that saved lives most efficiently. He’d given away most of the money he’d made on the trading floor to three charities identified by the Oxford philosophers as being especially efficient at saving liv

• Access to you • Availability • Rights to future projects • Cancelability • Project duration • Fee structure • Incentives • Process intrusiveness • Publicity • Responsiveness • Flexibility in timing • Schedule of fee payments

In 2008, attorney Kenneth Feinberg was appointed to a position in which he set the salaries of bank executives involved in the global financial crisis. He had to inform executives who made $5 million the previous year that they would only be making $1 million in the upcoming year. He expected them to be frustrated but understand, given the broader

We are mindful of the dangers of high welfare and unemployment benefits, watching the consequences of this compassionate policy on the job-seeking habits of the unemployed. Visiting the major cities of the industrial countries, I am struck by this curious phenomena of high unemployment and yet a shortage of waiters, cab drivers, nurses and garbage

and demand. And you’re just an item for sale at the great bazaar. Every year you need to find out what your value is on the market. For one thing, the best way to get an increase in salary and status is to move horizontally, not vertically.

Bon, je sais, cinquante ans, ça fait long, alors admettons que vous investissiez pendant vingt-cinq ans. Combien représenteraient des frais de 1 % ? En gros, 28 % de moins dans votre rendement pour la retraite, selon le Département de l’emploi américain. C’est pour ça que j’insiste sur la réduction des frais. Dans le monde de l’investissement, les