Wilson explained that Josiah was a shrewd marketing genius: he saw that if he started selling his fancy plates to the Queen, visiting dukes would see them and demand to have some; the lawyer visiting the duke would covet them in turn; then the doctor visiting the lawyer, and on down through the classes until everyone had to have them.
Although he was a shrewd social strategist, his genius was poetic in nature, for he had the prophet's eye for seeing local injustices in the light of transcendent truths.
However, before Gates became the legendary success he is today, the tech genius was a shrewd but small-time businessman.
I got to talk to Fontaine about Chanel's impact on fashion in specific and modern women in general, and how one takes Amelie and turns her into a shrewd, determined icon of creative genius.
To Kafka, Don Quixote was Sancho Panza's demon or genius, projected by the shrewd Sancho into a book of adventure unto death.
He said he tried not to judge Jobs, the shrewd salesman to Wozniak's technical genius, over pocketing the lion's share of profits.
He emerges as a cunning diplomat, a shrewd if ruthless leader and an administrative genius.
It is Cassandra's voice, a marriage of artlessness and shrewd perception, that is the touch of genius.
Irving Mills, his shrewd manager from 1926 to 1939, recognized Ellington's genius and relentlessly promoted him, securing live radio broadcasts, recordings and motion picture appearances.
THERE was a time not long ago when Gregg L. Engles was considered a genius in the dairy industry, a shrewd C.E.O. who had cobbled together a string of local businesses to create the nation's largest milk bottler, Dean Foods.
In any case, backs to the wall in the third period of Game Two, the Habs' shrewd coach, Jacques Demers, informed by the still-shrewder defensive genius Guy Carbonneau of a potential violation, called for a measurement of Gretzky bodyguard Marty McSorley's stick.
