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One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.


N. Robert Hammer

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N. SCOTT MOMADAY I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservat...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I think, if you create the right economic framework in terms of government policy, that Saskatchewan...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circu...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
N. MURRAY EDWARDS It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the las...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS From a Canadian partisan perspective, the more we can upgrade bitumen in Canada, the more we can cre...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'...
N. K. JEMISIN Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.
N. K. JEMISIN Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo...
N. K. JEMISIN I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem s...
N. K. JEMISIN With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is...
N. K. JEMISIN It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a...
N. K. JEMISIN It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and ...
N. K. JEMISIN Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, techn...
N. K. JEMISIN I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
N. K. JEMISIN As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The stat...
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