However, he recalled him driving his car "like a maniac" and he was "a risk taker".
But perhaps above all it fits with his post-Bin Laden projection as a hard-headed risk taker.
For decades, the gender perception of entrepreneurs is male- risk taker, ambitious, high locus of control, successful.
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Zhu, 70, is a risk taker, a breed apart in the Chinese leadership.
Einstein, obviously one of the greatest creative lions in the history of science, was also a keen risk taker.
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Start-up companies that experience rapid growth and survive to become successful businesses generally require a special kind of leader one that is not only a risk taker, but also resourceful and creative as well.
He was not a risk taker, she said, and that made it unlikely in her view that he would have put himself into the bag even as a personal challenge without making sure he could get out.
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Aronofsky is a veteran risk-taker whose past films have drawn a confusing mix of reactions.
She aimed to dress an aristocratic fashion risk-taker for all those parties at castles in the English countryside.
Mr Rajaratnam, a risk-taker in his trading, took the same approach to fighting the government's charges against him.
Consummate risk-taker Elon Musk looks to be at the top of his game.
As an entrepreneur, people think of me as a risk-taker, an adventurer.
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However its use was commercialised by a Texas wildcatter called George Mitchell, the sort of risk-taker America has in abundance.
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Stevens' main liability seems to be that he is an affable, quirky risk-taker in the charm-challenged world of GOP political pros.
Third, it rewards a risk-taker who committed most of his personal fortune and waking hours to making a revolutionary venture work.
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In 1992 we endorsed him, as the voters endorsed him, knowing full well that he was a bit of a rogue and even a risk-taker.
"If a risk-taker is putting up a million dollars, no matter how long the odds are, you need to be paid to take the risk, " he said.
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Lucy was always louder, feistier, a bigger risk-taker than I was, and had been far more convinced by the liberating sixties as they limped into the next decade.
It could be that being a risk-taker drives you to play more games, or that some external force makes you both play games AND be an unsafe driver.
But little evidence has yet emerged that Mr Hu, or indeed the author of the theory, is enough of a risk-taker to push the new theory that far.
In his day job David Nahmad is a risk-taker, trading millions of dollars in currencies and commodities, as well as betting hundreds of thousands on backgammon in Monte Carlo--he holds the 1996 world title.
She is a risk-taker, nonetheless, boasting that Caijing has even lost two court cases. (But she denies a rumour that the magazine was pulled from the news-stands for a story on a Shanghai property magnate, Zhou Zhengyi.) Getting sued in China is easy for a paper.
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