Ideally, shareholders can have a stake in the companies' operations for next to nothing or even less than nothing.
"Corporate boards, in their pursuit of charismatic C.E.O.'s through the external succession process, have transferred literally billions of dollars from organizations and shareholders to the personal control of C.E.O.'s and ex-C.E.O.'s -- too often with little, nothing, or even less than nothing to show in return," the author writes.
Smith is at risk of becoming the new Tom Cruise — someone who, even in repose, glows red-hot with clench-jawed tension and whose laid-back humor seems disciplined and forced with the effort to make something of nothing or even less.
Spend a lot of money on the potions, the benefits can be sky high/or as low as nothing and even less.
But for short-term pleasure, nothing beats that magical moment when you perceive that, having slogged through several difficult days doing nothing and saying even less, you're as high as a hippie in the seventh hour of a Grateful Dead gig.
Ministers and bureaucrats in office at the time say they were told almost nothing, and remember even less.
Now those at the top – with the exception of Diane Abbott – say nothing and do even less about this stain on our society.
And one thing was abundantly clear: if Arsenal play again with the same lack of backbone, they will get nothing and deserve even less.
SOCRATES always insisted that what he knew was worth little or nothing, even though no less an authority than the Delphic oracle said that there was no one wiser than he.
It's just that doing nothing is an even less attractive option.
I have appreciated the occasional pushback on the notion that public employees need to start making some "shared sacrifice," a call that typically comes from people who have shared nothing and sacrificed even less.
