Our industry is jam-packed with brilliant creative women, but if all you do is ask your closed loop of white guys for recommendations, you get white-guy recommendations".
And in future, if circumstances demand a change in how the US is advising the Iraqis, then at some point the President's military recommendations guy would recommend something military-related to the President.
Roosevelt's accidental masterstroke was hiring Bill Knudsen, the CEO of General Motors, to lead the preparations, at the recommendation of the guy who did the job in World War I. Everyone around Knudsen told him he'd be crazy to take the job.
I felt like Elaine in Seinfeld when she falls for the guy at the video store who makes the movie recommendations.
No, my recommendation is, change the subject to what a scary guy your opponent is.
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Mr. Carlson, who wrote Mr. Himes's recommendation for the Rhodes Scholarship, called him "a remarkably reflective guy".
It was started by a guy named Jamie Coulter, who also started one of our best-ever portfolio recommendation, Lone Star Steakhouse.
I'd rather take recommendations from someone who reads about strollers all day than from a guy who liked the one he chose at random at Wal-Mart.
Here's the beginning of recommendations, which need a bit more reality testing, and then approval by the big guys.
I met more guys he knew from Queens, and other bouncers, and dancers coming to work the later shifts, and Terence, the bouncer who was grazed, and a guy named Julio who had just taken the police exam and who wanted Derrick to write him a recommendation, and a guy who said he had just talked to a cop who was carrying around an Intel gang chart written in Derrick's handwriting.
