Sentences with phrase «better than the successful»

Despite the quick gestation, it's actually better than the successful debut - a rare enough occurrence - and the direction in which they've pushed things is equally surprising.

Not exact matches

Conservatism and consistency are the hallmarks of successful banks, and Canada's financial institutions demonstrate these traits far better than their international peers.

Entrepreneurs tend to be an action - oriented, onwards - and - upwards lot — a longitudinal study published by the Journal of Economic Psychology in 2014 associated successful entrepreneurs with higher - than - normal levels of hardiness, resourcefulness and optimism — meaning that when their venture fails, there's a pretty good chance they'll be able to rebound quickly, with a nifty second - act tale of adversity to slot into their narrative.

But if you want a routine that is road tested by one of the most dynamic and successful entrepreneurs around, you can do no better than follow in the footsteps of Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson.

The most successful ones work on more than a dozen initiatives at any one time — including creating better quality content, improving conversion rates and overall content effectiveness, creating more visual content, reimagining or repurposing content, measuring ROI and becoming better storytellers.

Few in the fashion world know better than popular designer Rachel Roy how rocky the road can be for even the most successful.

Agnieszka believes that finding the right team, sharing common goals — more than dreams of venture capital - results in the best chance of creating a successful company.

In perhaps the most notorious example of Oscar's underdog favoritism, in 2010, The Hurt Locker — released on just 535 screens and tallying less than $ 19 million at the box office — beat Avatar which had grossed $ 760 million and was well on its way to becoming the most successful movie ever made.

When it comes to entrepreneurship and business, considering her wildly successful career, who better to take note from than Winfrey.

Regardless of how 2011 plays out, one prediction will certainly hold true — businesses that take the proper steps to prepare for a potential sale will have a much better chance of achieving a successful exit than those who don't.

Clearly, in the absence of a miracle, poor project management will result in a project reaching an unsuccessful conclusion, but what is it that defines a good project manager and why are some project managers so much more successful than others?

Motorola says the device, which sold particularly well in India and Brazil and re-established the company in the United Kingdom, is its most successful smartphone yet — even more so than its Droid a few years ago.

«I think that's one of the reasons why this product has been so successful, because there are few things more rewarding than watching people taste it for the first time and say: «Oh, this is really good.»»

While it is important to function as a non-profit in legal terms, the most successful charities are well - run organizations, no different than for - profit companies but with a different business objective.

Rather than looking at the most successful content in your market and saying, «What can I do better?»

Being a successful speaker means being persuasive, and who better to borrow techniques of persuasion than from CIA agents, hostage negotiators and con artists.

These visions aren't to say that one scenario is better than the other, but rather to encourage organizations to consider what they would do if the workforce looked different and how they would adjust their strategies to stay relevant and successful.

But that's why there are so many successful companies in the world: Each one has a special skill that it does better than any other company.

To be successful as an agency or service provider, you have to do things better, faster, and cheaper than your competition — even if that competition are your clients» own teams.

And who better to consult for tips on running a successful Indiegogo campaign than Indiegogo co-founder Slava Rubin?

Great entrepreneurs are not successful because they had a great idea, but rather they executed on that idea better than anyone else.

So whilst it may seem that the grass is greener and every other business on the planet is better, easier and more successful than yours, it might just be time for a rethink.

This means that Whole Foods can track customer engagement by comments, shares, in - store visits, and customer referrals at each store to better find the elements that make some stores more successful than others.

Rather than go national from the very beginning, a fourth competitor should look for areas that aren't already well - served by a successful regional fourth competitor.

A review of the various statistical tests, applied to the record of this period, of these 24 forecasters, indicates that the most successful records are little, if any, better than what might be expected to result from pure chance.

The equity option is the most successful, according to the NCFA, but tends to work better for established companies looking to expand, rather than bootstrapping startups.

There are no shortcuts to being a successful trader and your time would probably be better spent on real trading rather than automated trading.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

Although Casper is the best place in Wyoming for a successful 2017 — the median household income is higher and the median home price is lower here than in Cheyenne, for example — there are some worrying statistics.

Over the past decade immigrants have arrived in Canada better educated and at similar stages in their careers as those born in Canada, but evidence suggests that they have been less successful than earlier waves of immigrants.

Who better to turn to for career advice and inspiration than a few seriously successful entrepreneurs and business savvy women who've been there?

However, who better to turn to than some of today's most successful people for guidance.

It was the book that helped me to better understand the function of marketing and how much of successful sales is structural rather than based upon personal ability.

To find the best of the bunch, we contacted more than 50 business schools worldwide and asked each to nominate their most successful MBA entrepreneurs.

In the U.S., attempts to put such beauty concepts into drugstores haven't been as successful because American department stores are in better shape than the Canadian ones.

The blog post 7 Reasons Why a Drug Dealer is a Better Entrepreneur Than You by Sebastian Dillon, describes how successful rappers and businessmen like Jay Z, P. Diddy, and 50 Cent began their entrepreneurial careers as drug dealers.

Back then, when I asked this top producer how to become successful, he answered (and I'm paraphrasing here to the best of my memory) that I should not waste any more than 10 to 15 minutes making asset allocation decisions once I closed on a large account.

«When a stock is relatively expensive, it is much harder to assess whether other people have simply done a better job than me at assessing the probabilities of successful outcomes.

Robots will always be more efficient at processing those calculations than humans, however, so they will always be better at analyzing market data and completing successful trades.

Menlo, First Round and Lowercase have attracted less attention than either Benchmark or Kalanick, but could very well be the swing votes in whether the sale is successful.

They do a very good job of educating troubled young people to be good citizens, and they're probably more successful than charter schools.»

There is no better way to learn how to trade than from somebody who is already successful in the trading business, we will get to this in detail later in this article, but for now lets discuss how trading can be taught to an aspiring Forex trader.

However, very few jobs compare to being self - employed and there's nothing better than creating a successful business.

If you want to be successful in business, you might be better off «falling in love with boredom» rather than constantly «pursuing passion».

GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.

«Some of the most successful men of the 19th century never went to college, and today, those who didn't go to college are more intelligent, better informed and less easily fooled than the people who did go to college.»

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Tom Cruise is clearly a much better person (and more successful) than you are — and he's a Scientologist.

If you want someone who has shown commitment to their friends, their community, and their personal standards while being successful in their profession it seems it will be hard to find someone better in that regard than Mitt.

According to the findings of a new research study, interest in church planting is on the rise, some of America's best and brightest ministry leaders choose planting as their career path and church planting efforts are much more successful and promising than anticipated.