Sentences with phrase «saying no to people takes»

Saying no to people takes a lot of time and costs money.

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«One never holds people necessarily responsible for their government, but one does have the ability to be very careful in what one does with the government itself,» said Smith, who became Microsoft's president in 2015, taking on a title that had not existed at the company since 2002, when Richard Belluzzo left.

And he has previously said his administration will not approve the deal, leading some people to question if he has taken a direct role in the review of the deal.

A universal basic income system would be unconditional, which he says would encourage innovation and entrepreneurship, since people who otherwise wouldn't be able to take financial risks would have the freedom to do so.

«I remember, like, you don't often get so obsessed about something where you drop everything and drive to Boston and meet with people for 14 hours, taking notes, losing your voice, with no idea just to learn,» he said.

«Your best person is the person who just screwed up,» she says, «When people fear for their job, they aren't going to [take a risk].»

He's also stuck his neck out on LGBTQ issues, pushing fellow business leaders to take a stand against laws in the state of Indiana that critics say discriminate against gay and transgender people.

Indeed, a 2013 study by the Investment Company Institute found that three in four people under age 35 say they are not willing to take «above - average or substantial» investment risks.

In a series of tweets posted on Wednesday, Trump said that his government would not allow transgender people to serve «in any capacity,» a decision he said was taken on the advice of US generals and military experts.

«Usually customers want some more convenience,» says Felstiner, going on to list features that are common to many on - demand companies: «The customer may want access to other people's reviews of the [worker], they may want some guarantee of competence, or they want to know the person will arrive in 30 minutes, and then the service accepts payment on behalf of the person and takes a cut.»

As Greenleaf himself has said, «The difference manifests itself in the care taken by the servant first to make sure that other people's highest priority needs are being served.

Serving those customers takes people who believe wholeheartedly in Western Union's mission, says Ersek, and so he looks to hire special kinds of leaders.

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

My colleague Maria Pergolino pointed out that when people say they are a thought leader they are saying they take the time to help others by not only doing a great job but also making an effort to package it up via blogs, presentations, etc., so other people can learn.

«What I can say is taking your pregnant wife to a very dangerous place, to me, and the kind of person that I am, is unconscionable,» he said.

You're disinclined to take it if it's really expensive, whereas if the price comes down even by a dollar... we asked people about a dollar and they said that would make a difference.

If you force people to take a psychological test, you're essentially saying that you expect all aspects of their lives to be open to your scrutiny and use.

«We enabled people to take a peek behind the curtain,» he said.

If you are a person who took offense to what I said, I sincerely apologize to you.

«While this lawsuit is frivolous and will be dismissed, if the case goes forward, the DNC has created an opportunity for us to take aggressive discovery into their claims of «damages» and uncover their acts of corruption for the American people,» said Brad Parscale, Trump's campaign manager, in the Friday statement.

So collectively with the writers, we decided to take a gamble that these two people were in love and it was going to work out,» Korsh said.

«I would just say that we may or may not have reached out to certain folks very early about the importance of data encryption, and if those people had used our software then that data that would still be protected today And it's a shame, a shame for society, that they did not take that simple action.

Schroepfer said that Facebook took 3.5 billion Instagram photos, adorned with people's hashtags to describe them, and was able to «produce state of the art results» on the popular ImageNet computer - vision benchmark, used by AI researchers as a gauge of their project's effectiveness compared to others.

«If we as healthcare providers listen to the people we take care of, we can reach a diagnosis earlier and then ensure that patients receive appropriate treatment,» Brightman said.

«Many people wake up after about four hours, because that's how long it takes to metabolize alcohol, then they have trouble getting back to sleep,» she says.

«People came and stood up for Barcelona, stood up for the victims, stood up for us,» Marfeel's Chiavegato says, adding that the executive team took several employees to lunch on Friday to talk them through the trauma.

«As a first step we're taking advantage of our existing identity and payment technologies to help people subscribe on a publication's website with a single click, and then seamlessly access that content anywhere — whether it's on that publisher site or mobile app, or on Google Newsstand, Google Search or Google News,» Gingras said.

«A lot of the action you're able to take at the White House is by calling people up and saying, «Hey we're interested in getting this done, will you help,»» Fingert says.

«Some of our policymakers and some people need to look in the mirror and take some action because ideas are great, but without action, ideas stay ideas and children die,» Hogg said on CNN Thursday.

«We have people on our executive team who took major pay cuts to come here, because they feel they're really participating in the future of the company,» he says.

People share a lot of information, and if you take the time to listen to what they are saying, you will be in the best possible position to have meaningful conversations with the right people, and offer «just the thing» they want or need at that mPeople share a lot of information, and if you take the time to listen to what they are saying, you will be in the best possible position to have meaningful conversations with the right people, and offer «just the thing» they want or need at that mpeople, and offer «just the thing» they want or need at that moment.

Lacking a leader, «it's hard for me to be optimistic or pessimistic because I don't know if they're going to open the floodgates and take a lot of risks to rush the technology out — or if they're going to take a reasonable, rational pathway to protecting people,» said David Friedman, director of cars and product policy and analysis at Consumers Union.

«Once people decide they want to take a chance on the company, the vehicle is a secondary question,» he says.

It's obviously harder to take the same approach with family members, but Schwartz says there's no reason to put up with people saying or doing things that are unkind.

58 % of people said it is appropriate for companies to take part in the gun - control debate, compared to 33 % who say it isn't appropriate.

«I began to pray for the people in Texas after having gone through that same experience myself as a Katrina survivor,» said Crystal Harris, who works for the Second Harvest Food Bank, which was taking donations for storm victims.

«I thought the potential was unbelievable if we could take it to market and make it a thing people could use,» he says.

Assign a person to take notes about who said what so managers can reflect on what happened and telling remarks about whether the company is solving a problem in a better way.

Interestingly, the study says that while it takes an average 11 minutes for people to get distracted from a task, a good 25 minutes are consumed in focusing on the task even after getting back to it.

«There are a ton of people right here we can train to take these new, information - age jobs,» he says.

«You don't want to create a public panic, but you do want people to take it all very seriously,» he said.

«Some people don't like to take responsibility for their own shit,» Kalanick said.

«I remember meetings years ago where you listened to what people had to say, you respected it, and you took notes.

«There's a secret sauce in hiring a person who knows that I believe in him enough to take a chance,» says David Williams, CEO of Fishbowl, an inventory software firm near Salt Lake City.

[My instincts have] allowed me to capitalize on opportunities and made me very confident in taking risks that other people didn't see,» he says.

Because the Apple boss, likes lots of super successful people, knew two things — that focus was the key to success and that all the saying no it takes to truly focus is really, really hard.

I learned to take the calls and respond to the people in an organization who get the least attention and ask for it the least,» Guerra says.

Piazza del Popolo It's said to be one of the best people - watching spots in the city (which, for Rome, says a lot)-- that is, if you can take your eyes off the 17th - century churches and Egyptian obelisk, among other sights.

Temperaments, however, are not that easily influenced by «hear - say»: shy people labeled outgoing won't take fire; and schmoozers labeled shy will just continue to babble and hug on.

«If you went back 25 years and explained the idea for adding an artistic flair to a bunch of street performers, if you took that to Dragon's Den, you'd get a lot of eye rolls and people saying «no way,»» says Matt Thompson, «And look what they've done with it.