Sentences with phrase «at the mistakes made»

I looked at mistakes I made since the time I invested and I looked at mistakes that other people made that I respect like Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, LongLeaf Partners and so on.

She's willing to murder for what she considers to be the greater good, but stays her blade at the mistakes made by children.

In addition to the gun restrictions and arming some school personnel, it would create new mental health programs for schools, improve communication between schools, law enforcement and state agencies, create a task force to look at mistakes made during mass shootings nationally and then make recommendations on how to continue to improve law, and establish an anonymous tip line where students and others can report threats to schools.

Take a look at the mistakes you made when the romance started to go downhill.

Not exact matches

In the wake of the Dollar Shave Club deal, I reached out to my own business advisers, at Commerce Business Advisers, and asked them what are the three biggest mistakes that founders make in the early days, that eventually hurt their exits.

While there's no mistaking that a pair of shorts makes you look like you mean business, Hanson is quick to clarify that it's unlikely that the Royal brood are throwing shade at the rest of the country.

«The media made a mistake by covering Trump's candidacy at the start as some sort of joke or media prank,» Harvard political scientist Danielle S. Allen tells the NYT columnist.

«We made the mistake of buying three vehicles all at once, in cash.

Automation also reduces the risk that you'll make costly mistakes in your recordkeeping, which will help keep you out of trouble at tax time.

Composing a Top 10 Best List works too, for example the title to a post could read «Top 10 Mistakes Business Managers Make» or «Top 5 Ways to Increase the Number of Patients at Your Practice.»

«Oftentimes, executives — and employees at all levels — are afraid to make mistakes, but that could be the biggest mistake of all.

If you're looking at all stocks though the same lens, Jim Cramer thinks you're making a mistake.

«That's the biggest mistake most inventors make — is they look at an idea from a passion perspective rather than analyzing it as a business opportunity.»

Everyone at your company should understand that it's perfectly acceptable to make mistakes, as long as people aren't making the exact same ones over and over again.

Neil Patel, blogger at Quicksprout.com and co-founder of KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg, gives some common mistakes often made on websites, explains website hotspots, and a few elements every website should contain.

Employees who want to finish up a project at home may send confidential information to insecure home computers, or an IT administrator, privy to all of the company's infrastructure, could make a small mistake that has devastating consequences.

One of the most common mistakes that entrepreneurs make when they're just starting out is growing their inner circle too quickly and taking on too many projects at once.

Making your minimum threshold too high: While free shipping on small purchases can eat away at your profit margin, it's a mistake to set your minimum qualifying purchase price too high, says John Lawson, an Atlanta - based e-commerce consultant.

«You can make a big mistake in terms of whom you hire,» says Mikhel Tombak, who directs an innovation program at University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, «because you're just grabbing whoever you can.»

The biggest mistake most companies make when choosing a strategy is «listening to the Hippo — the Highest - Paid Person in the Organization,» Neil Hunt, chief product officer of Netflix, told attendees at the Churchill Club in Santa Clara, California.

But make no mistake, a catchy and memorable company name can offer a distinct advantage, keeping you at the front of your customers» minds and helping you to make a positive and engaging first impression.

«Everybody worries about making mistakes,» he says, «but when it comes to choosing between working 24 hours [and risking] having your mental faculties function at less efficiency, and spreading that out over more time, most lawyers would tell you the former is more likely to result in fewer mistakes.

Hunt says the other mistake companies make is to listening to their customers, because «customers are poor at knowing what they need.»

«One of the fundamental mistakes I made at the beginning was thinking that people enjoyed all the things I liked,» Levy says.

Too many entrepreneurs and experts make the mistake of assuming that just because their product or service is one that's useful throughout the year or «evergreen», it's automatically interesting as a story at any time.

Let's take a look at these steps, and also at ways to avoid some of the most common mistakes new entrepreneurs make.

Then they can look at your track record from the last number of years and see it's all worked out, and when you have made a mistake, you've owned up to it, and that there were lessons learned.

Make no mistake: #Anonymous is at war with #Daesh.

That experience, though painful at the time, helped prevent me from making the same mistake ever again.

The mistake a lot of entrepreneurs make is not starting at the top when selling or pitching an idea.

I still aspire to do the very best job I can, but I don't obsess over it and lie in bed at night beating myself up when I make a dumb mistake.

While it's true perfectionists can be rewarded for their flawless performances and may even think their desire to never make a mistake is what makes them more efficient at their job, the obsession for perfect may indeed stand in the way of success.

To avoid making costly mistakes (and I'm speaking from experience), here's what we try to do at my company, Lolly Wolly Doodle:

That's bad — at least for a person hoping to get hired — but what's much worse is when you, as the interviewer, make one of the following mistakes:

He is far from alone: It reminded me of the common mistakes I see founders make at the start that hinder their ability to grow or sell down the road.

One of the most common mistakes people make at the office is not turning to - do lists into time - bound, effective project lists.

If you're in a similar situation — in life, at work, or as part of a company marketing campaign — the best strategy is to own up to the mistake, apologize, and then get to work on how to make sure it never happens again.

United Airlines and CEO Oscar Munoz made some huge mistakes in their attempt at damage control after a passenger was involuntarily dragged off of a flight, says strategist Mark Macias.

«He recognizes that he's made mistakes, and he's recognized that some people he's chosen have gone on to be all - stars at Berkshire, and others have been great, and others have not worked out,» Cool told Fortune in October 2013, adding that «he's been incredibly trusting, which is very empowering to an individual.»

Herjavec, who has a net worth of $ 200 million, offered the following advice on Twitter: «One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs can make is giving out too much equity right at the start.»

Sooner or later, no matter how careful or meticulous you are, you're going to make a big mistake at work.

If they still want to make the purchase, at least you will have done the right thing, but if they realize that you are right and that you have saved them from making a big mistake, they'll be your fans for life.

These mistakes can be quite costly for businesses, as differences in tariff rates mean that a company making a classification error will either pay too much in tariffs or face a retroactive tax bill if they accidentally classified a product at too low a rate.

Make no mistake — there will be lineups at Apple stores when the company releases its smartwatch, with the faithful dutifully snapping up the latest gizmo.

«We had to set up a game,» he says, «where we couldn't make a $ 10,000 mistake — or at least where we would know how to correct it right away.

Some jerk at the office will tear you apart when you make a mistake.

Below, I'll look at six of the most common mistakes entrepreneurs make and see what some famous founders who experienced them did to eventually find success.

Failing at something, making mistakes, opens up a great opportunity to learn something new.»

But at some of the steps, he made mistakes because he was excessively focused on protecting the political reputation of the FBI and the Department of Justice.

Because you look at every poll, it said they made a mistake.