In Basket

Every serious investor, on the other hand, has a stack of these in their in-basket email or real plastic awaiting review, and is looking for the flaw or less-capable entrepreneur in each that predicts failure, allowing them to discard it like another piece of junk mail. ❋ Marty Zwilling (2011)

Keep an in-basket near your back door for items that need to be returned to rooms and an out-basket for dirty dry cleaning and library books. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Every serious investor has a stack of these in their in-basket. ❋ Marty Zwilling (2011)

He just let it pile up in the in-basket on the corner of his desk until it leaned like the Tower of Pisa, then tipped it over into the wastebasket. ❋ Richard Whittle (2010)

Emma picked up a thick sheaf of paper from her desktop, work that seemed to be completed, and set it in the in-basket. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

I picked up my mail, poured a cup of coffee, and started in on the paperwork that waited daily for me in my in-basket. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

“Ronald knows I want to record you,” Fred says, as he points to a cassette at the top of his in-basket. ❋ Vince Flynn (2010)

She picked a pile of advertising invoices out of her in-basket, started stacking certain ones on the counter to her left, others to her right. ❋ Bryan Gruley (2010)

Look through your desk drawers, desktop, in-basket, closets, cupboards, shelves and file drawers and make a master to-do list of anything that needs to be done based on what you see. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I used to keep a tape recorder by the bed when I worked investigations and had an in-basket full of cases. ❋ Steve Perry (2010)