Sentences with phrase «about taking a year»

I remember the conversation I had with a friend about taking a year off with just my backpack.

Perry also shares his story about taking a year off to travel with his wife and why on this trip he realized he had a story in him.

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My friend took my hands in hers, looked me in the eye and said, «Ric, you've been talking about that dream for twenty years.

Last year, 6.15 million Chinese travelers took international trips, a 7 percent increase from 2016, with overseas spending estimated to amount to about 100 billion yuan (nearly $ 16 billion).

In this year's letter published Wednesday, Bezos again stressed the idea of long - term thinking, using an anecdote about a friend who visited a handstand coach who told her it would take six months to master the skill:

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

Kim apparently tried to downplay the underlying tension between the two by joking about how many years it took for him to visit South Korea despite the very thin demarcation line between them.

When legendary film director Martin Scorsese expressed interest in executive producing Verdi and Kraft's biopic about world champion boxer Vinny Pazienza, called Bleed for This, Verdi was out of town, but sent the then 22 - year - old Kraft to Scorsese's house to take the meeting.

«There's lots of language in the shareholder letter about things taking time, and that's been something of a theme since Dorsey took over a year ago,» said Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaw Research.

On CNBC's «Options Action» Friday, Cornerstone Macro's Carter Worth explained that after two years of consolidation, biotech stocks are about to play catch up to the market, and one way to take advantage of the move is with one of its top constituents — Amgen.

This year, though, Brin kicked off the Founders Letter with a quote taken from the very beginning of «A Tale of Two Cities,» a book written over 150 years ago by Charles Dickens — a historical fiction about the French Revolution.

«It's taken us three years to get to a place we feel good about,» Lowden said about the development process.

With a growing empire that reaches well beyond entertainment, the 47 - year - old opens up about the power of entrepreneurship, investing and the need to build wealth, leaving listeners with a three valuable lessons on how to take their success to the next level:

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.

World War I, which ended 99 years ago on Saturday, took the lives of about 40 million people and is considered by many to be the first total, industrial war.

After realizing a successful exit selling Destia Communications, Levy took a few years off to get reacquainted with his family and get his financial plan together, and gradually began about what he wanted to do next.

When Guy Laurence, the former CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. (which owns Canadian Business), took the reins of the telecom three years ago, he spent several months touring the country, talking to everyone from cable installers to call centre staffers to mid-level managers about their concerns.

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

«When I was about 12 years old I took a trip to Florida for spring break.

Either way, his comments follow a trend of famous figures — from entertainers to sports figures — taking a hard stance against their children playing football at any level, especially in light of the revelations about long - term effects from football concussions that have surfaced in recent years.

Perhaps it's not a bad idea to take the holiday season an occasion to formally and fully switch off, but the best use of the time, if Rosen is to be believed, is to think deeply about how you want to live, your priorities, and how you can draw up strategies (or boundaries) to help you achieve that vision in the coming year.

«I took off what I thought was going to be 6 months of work, that turned into a year and I had already been to about 160 countries by then,» Lavallo told CNBC.

«My dad was keen, but it was my level - headed mother who finally convinced me that, at 18 and about to enter medical school, I was in no position to take on a seven - year - old,» she writes.

We had to take what I've learned from turning around companies and growing them, and what the people here know about getting 100 million meals into Canadians» bellies every year, and mesh those skill sets.

One board member, who had run a large marketing agency, took things into her own hands and spent a year going around campus in stealth mode, talking to deans and other board members to see what they thought about the institution's brand.

But the real issue on pricing is the year - on - year rises on old drugs — the deflection is to talk about new drug prices, but the sleight of hand is on the double digit rises taken every year on the portfolio staples.

The project, which was funded on Kickstarter, took about three years of research and development, but Roosegaarde was finally able to show off his massive machine in September 2015 in Rotterdam.

In the year he took leadership, Citigroup was the largest U.S. bank, valued at $ 247 billion, and J.P. Morgan was he third largest with a market capitalization of about $ 135 billion.

IN 10 years, CJ King and Co Pty Ltd has grown from a small annex behind a North Beach home to what it claims is the biggest full colour printer in the Southern Hemisphere — a $ 1,500 investment that is now turning over $ 10 million a year.With the assistance of Austrade and the WA Department of Industry and Resources (DoIR), the company is taking on the UK market, already with some success.One of the remarkable things about this success story is that it has been achieved through a consummate belief in a philosophy to use standardised, leading - edge technology and to supply just the print trade and other on - sellers.

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.

Around for about three years, geo - dating is only now starting to take off.

After this, I got to work on one of my many online entrepreneurial business ideas that I've been thinking about for years but never taken action on.

ROWENA CROSBIE: I took my citizenship about a year ago, so I know what that process looks like.

Access to the complete Twitter stream costs about $ 30,000 a month, with fees based on usage that can take the charges up to $ 1.5 million a year, according to people who have used the data.

Penned by journalist Michael Wolff, also famous for writing a scathing biography about media baron Rupert Murdoch several years ago, Fire and Fury took off like, well, wildfire as soon as word of its imminent publishing broke just a few weeks ago.

It will take about 10 years of dedicated work until you'll be allowed to cook tamagoyaki (egg sushi).

By far, the oddest thing about Donald Trump's 1995 tax returns, a portion of which was published by The New York Times on Saturday, is not the massive $ 916 million loss — some 9,385 times as large as what was taken by the average filer who claimed a similar loss — but this: 1995 was actually a very good year for Trump, perhaps one of the best of his career.

He also took home $ 3.06 million in salary and a previously disclosed equity award of $ 89.2 million, bringing his total payout for the year to about $ 102 million.

«Here is a company that has the best movies about how we've got to help one another and how racism is wrong and how we've got to take care of our toys,» said Glynndana Shevlin, a 58 - year - old who's worked for almost 30 years at Disney.

Under Trump's tax proposal, top earners — taking in more than $ 699,000 a year — would see average annual tax reductions of about $ 215,000, according to an analysis by the non-partisan Tax Policy Center.

«People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.»

And that sounds really weird to people but if you think about it, a really happy 80 - year - old couple that's been together for 60 years, the reason that they've been together for 60 years, it isn't because they took all these private jets and they had these crazy vacations and «Oh my God, look at their pictures.»

The sometimes - activist hedge fund, founded by billionaire Barry Rosenstein, also said it owns about 593,000 shares of Sprouts, which earlier this year held preliminary talks to be taken private by Cerberus Capital Management and merged with its Albertsons Cos. brand, people familiar with the matter said at the time.

Asked about leadership lessons learned from her crisis - ridden first year as CEO, Barra talked transparency and teamwork, but quickly took her insights to the next level.

With about 53 million subscribers, Sprint has taken more than its share of criticism for its customer service over the years, as have many of its competitors.

It took me about two years before launching Dwolla to figure out how to legally do it and get into the marketplace and raise the first chunk of money.

President Donald Trump gets his first physical since taking office on Friday, but Americans may not find out much about the health of the 71 - year - old chief executive with a taste for McDonald's and an aversion to exercise beyond golf.

Even then, he says, Nuinsco — which started the year with about $ 6 million in cash and marketable securities — won't take on a new project without enough cash on hand to deal with setbacks.

About a month ago, I advanced the hypothesis that Americans had seen too many of these kerfuffles in recent years to take the latest one seriously.