Sentences with phrase «about doing this for years»

Our plans to revamp the cafe have been in the works a long time: new floors & cabinets, new lighting, countertops and a fresh color scheme - these are all things that Birgit & Jeanne talked about doing for years.

Putting together this fashion show was literally something I have dreamed about doing for years.

I thought about doing this for years and years.

Not exact matches

«Do you really want to take a 2.5 % annual return for 40 years, if you're thinking about current bond yields?

«We really do feel that the [TaskUs] team is part of our extended family,» says Kirsty Traill, vice president of customer support at Hootsuite, which has used the company to handle customers» email queries for about a year.

In the beginning, that's a great business model, right, because all you're doing is you create this anonymous shell company, you give it a name, you don't care who actually is behind it and you stick it in a folder and you forget about it until a year passes and it's time to invoice for the renewal.

We don't know too much about Edward Snowden, the 29 - year - old responsible for leaking NSA documents to the press.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

You can find the same types of long - running disagreements across the therapeutic board in clinical trials, as I wrote about years ago in an essay for the New York Times, entitled «Do Clinical Trials Work?»

-- David Kalt, founder and CEO of Reverb, a marketplace for musical instruments and gear that has raised about $ 5 million in funding and expects to do $ 130 million in transactions this year, up from $ 40 million last year.

«We had been with Wayne Vinten for about three years and we were very happy with the work they did,» Mr Cookson said.

It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, «If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?»

The CEO, who took over the top spot in January 2013, had heard about the incident on the radio that morning as he drove to work, unaware that it would have anything to do with him or the company where he's worked for 28 years.

Rempel is now being talked about as a contender for the Conservative leadership, a prospect she addressed in a series of sardonic tweets last year, including, «All your DMs with DO IT aren't helping.

I didn't much care for the 2015 Best Picture of the Year Spotlight; in my view, it was a Lifetime version of the kind of gripping story about journalism that All the President's Men actually was.

«About a year ago, I stopped drinking caffeine, and I can not say enough for what it's done for my energy levels and ability to wake up each morning ready to charge into the day ahead.

«Amazon's been signaling for about one or two years that they're going to make big bets, because they can, because they've got the cash flow to do it, so that makes this less of a surprise,» said Mahaney, an analyst at RBC Capital.

But there have been doubts about whether that goal is realistic, and even B.C. Finance Minister Mike de Jong said this week that he doesn't expect LNG revenues for at least three to five years.

«But it was definitely a situation where they have the same core people coming to this thing for years, and they're all guys and they don't want to worry about it,» he says.

Netgear's (ntgr) stock has done fine, but trailed the S&P 500 index for most of the past five years until a big rally the past few months, largely over excitement about how well Arlo cameras sold in the holiday shopping period.

What do you learn about raising geniuses if you track 5,000 super high - performing young people for 45 years?

And in so doing, it can make the case that it cares about artists — something they've been longing to hear from anyone for years.

But because many of these multinationals do most of their business outside of Portland, the actual dollar amount deducted for the tax would be miniscule: the city estimates it will generate about $ 2.5 to $ 3.5 million per year from this initiative.

Advice abounds this time of year, and Katie Morrell recently offered tips on the Open Forum blog, including pre-planning activities and structure for your intern to prevent you running around the office trying to find things for your intern to do once they arrive, as well as regular check - ins to ask about their experience and swap tasks they hate for to - dos they'll get more out of.

At one moment in the play the actor playing Frankie Valli is talking about his longstanding relationship with Bob Gaudio, the primary songwriter for the band: all this, the fortune, the fame, and the songs, was done on a handshake 40 years ago.

Me and my SO eventually broke up but I didn't tell him about the affair until after we got back together and dated for two more years.

In true college - application style, Rosen asks for responses to things like «Tell me about a problem you've overcome this year» or «What have you done this year that makes you really proud?»

Don't worry, it's not as bad as the epic back and forth of the past few years, as Congress decided to impose burdensome new requirements, the small business community fought back, and then Congress (typically) fought childishly among themselves about how to pay for a repeal.

«While I don't have the exact figures, I estimate that cutting back for 2 years, before buying my first home, I was able to save about $ 25,000 that I invested in 2011 and 2012, and that «cutting back» is now worth more than $ 100,000 in my investment accounts.

What to include: Business plans vary in length — anywhere from 20 to 50 pages — but typically cover the same topics, such as: Cover Page (essential contact information); Executive Summary (what your business does and what market need it solves); Company Overview (profile of company and successes); Industry Analysis (details about the market); Customer Analysis (who are the customers); Competitive Analysis (identify key competitors); Marketing Plan (your brand and how do you plan on getting it in front of customers); Operations Plan (daily and yearly operational processes for success); Management Team (identify key company personnel); and Financial Plans (revenue projections for three to five years).

Don't miss this chance to prepare for the year ahead with the straight facts about every major country's and region's current geopolitical climate.

Lots of people are talking about a study put out this morning by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives about how the average Canadian CEO will earn as much by lunchtime today as the average Canadian does in a year.

But he does say he has worked in «various online businesses» for 20 years, started arbitraging about a year ago and has good news for opponents like Ruckel: Arbitraging has become too popular for its own good.

UK - based Bushveld Minerals has launched its second takeover bid for local coal explorer Lemur Resources in two years, this time proposing to acquire all the shares it doesn't own in the business for about $ 10.9 million.

But I also think about that for myself, and so I think, «OK, how do I set myself up for what the next two years look like, and what changes do I have to make?»

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Apple also failed to mention the watch's battery life, a feature CEO Tim Cook bragged about for the iPhone 6 — a worrisome sign, but it also could be because the Apple Watch doesn't hit until next year.

He has been doing so for 10 years, a relationship that began when entrepreneurship professor David BenDaniel invited Keller to present a case study about an instance in which Cascade was considering purchasing a plant in California.

Solace Technologies» first year of business was about what you'd expect from a startup — funds were tight and the company's founders, who didn't take a salary for 12 months, worked from a basement in an office building in downtown Los Angeles.

And for those that do embrace automation for physical tasks, the report predicts an average productivity boost of about 1 percent a year.

One of the common problems McFarland sees is the tendency for company CEOs to do a strategic planning session once a year, write up a report, and then, essentially, forget about it.

Salary plus bonuses for a job well done, the ability to work from home if your child is sick or something comes up in your personal life, consistent celebrations throughout the year, and free snack bar during year end so you don't have to worry about food and can save some money over the holidays.

If you want to really stand out from your competition and make Facebook a never - ending gold mine that you can be digging into for years to come, then you need to put some time into thinking very strategically about everything you do on Facebook and start thinking about everything you do as part of a three - layer Facebook funnel.

00:13 Michael Alter: As we're getting to the end of the year and looking towards 2013, people are always thinking about «how do I set my sales quotas for the year, how do I incent my sales team?»

«The thing I most respect about Brito is he does what he says he's going to do,» says Dave Peacock, who was president of AB at the time and stayed on for three years.

The New York Times bestselling author and radio show host of The Cardone Zone also talks about how he looks and feels younger than he did 20 years ago — because he stopped trying to please everyone and started living his life for himself.

But if you're paying that interest rate for a year and a half to be able to buy something that you've always wanted to do and that you've been very passionate about, to me, it absolutely worked.

The 65 - year - old entrepreneur says he learned about risks from his parents who «liked to gamble, leaving me to fend for myself... I learned the difference between gambling, which I do little of, and risk - taking, which I do all the time.»

«I did this for about two years straight.»

«I don't understand how Apple could ruin the record business in one year on Mac,» said Doug Morris, the head of Universal Music, according to Appetite for Self - Destruction, a new book about the record industry's ills by Rolling Stone writer Steve Knopper.