"We know we are very special," Davis writes in "Special": "Yet we keep trying to find out in what way: not this way, not that way, then what way?" This restless business of "trying to find out" is precisely what constitutes the specialty, in both senses, of this writer.
"I told the government, 'If you don't make changes, in five years all our plants will be shut down.' " For restless business executives like Mr. Akkad, who said he had given up trying to open new factories in Syria, the question of whether they will do business with Israelis after a peace treaty is irrelevant.
There will be more CEO turnover, not less, in 2010, as opportunities open up with recovery and top bosses get restless at the businesses they shepherded through hard times.
In 2006, restless in the family business, Mr. Baker dove headlong into the retail trade.
Restless, he left the business and became a house painter, saving money and traveling to southeast Asia for three or four months at a time.
While still in college, Mr. Lourd became a page at CBS Studios, on the game show "The Price Is Right" and the soap opera "The Young and the Restless" — and a show business career was born.
They are people of action and perpetual motion, people of combat – conditioned to seek and land their various moments of opportunity, rather like the restless entrepreneurs of the business world.
Many filmmakers, writers and artists are blessed with longevity, but not all of them arrive at true lateness, that stage where calm mastery collides with a restless sense of unfinished business, where the contemplation of mortality inspires both resignation and revolt.
His restless drive, an asset in business (at least until it lands him in serious legal trouble), makes him an unreliable lover, and Lan Yu seems too passive to oppose him.
But now, Burr confides, he's restless to give the airline business one more go.
But once, in 1996, I was restless from not having bought a business in a few years.
