Sentences with phrase «book than about»

This section is usually the hardest to write because most authors are much more knowledgeable about their own book than about books written by their competition.

The thrust of the awards is satirical: As Johnson watched the number of trailers mount, he told NPR yesterday, «It just seemed like, you know, maybe book people should be worrying more about books than about movies.»

Not exact matches

As YouTube star Mamrie Hart — her popular channel You Deserve a Drink has more than 1.2 million subscribers — set about writing her second book, which some could argue is an even scarier prospect than writing your first, her M.O. was to seek out adventure.

How about we agree that you just take my word for it (or read my book), rather than try to learn these prison leadership lessons in their natural setting?

Glenn Fogel, Bookings Holdings CEO, and CNBC's Seema Mody talk about the company's better - than - expected fourth quarter sales as the online travel company receives a boost from a rise in reservations and strong performance from its international business.

I frequently speak about this when I lecture on college campuses, but even if you are not a full - time employee at a major company, internships will get you so much farther than any book you read or class you take.

As William Strauss and Neil Howe put it in their seminal book Generations (almost anybody pontificating about generational cohorts is channelling Strauss and Howe, even if they don't realize it), «More than anyone, they have developed a seasoned talent for getting the most out of a bad hand.»

Billionaire and avid reader Bill Gates has a new favorite book: «Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think.»

Or how about one of the new mobile broadband service plans packaged with a netbook rather than a phone Then the netbook would fit next to the cash register, and Sohn could manage his books during downtime at the store.

My time with the Red Sox organization taught me more about sales challenges than any book I ever read on the topic.

Lawson's book is more fun and thrilling than any work of journalism about hedge funds has the right to be.

«The books that we can expect to see — rather than books about strategy and big things like vision or corporate culture — will be clearly and explicitly aimed at the individual.

My main gripes about the Book 2, other than the high ticket price, is that I'm moving more and more away from a Windows machine for my daily work.

As Evernote CEO Phil Libin said via Ryan's book, «People [who are] thinking about things other than making the best product never make the best product.»

This large New York — based insurer is cheaper than its Canadian counterparts, trading at about a 20 % discount to book value.

This book taught me more about resilience than anything else I've read or any class I ever took.

This year, I'm feeling the birthday doldrums a little more acutely than usual since I've just about finished up the manuscript on my next book, Humans 3.0, which is all about how technology is affecting human nature.

Though somewhat tattered, the book, which has sold for more than $ 2 million in mint condition, was still worth about $ 200,000 - at least until he showed it to his aunt and the pair tore the back cover in a scuffle, reducing the value to a mere $ 137,000.

Shaq's book report revealed it had been less than transformative: «This is about a young man who has power, wealth, and women (much like me), and gives them all up to pursue a holy life (not so much like me).»

Why It's Worth Reading: More than the other books in this collection, Influence is about sales negotiations.

The company's net revenue increased to about $ 1.1 billion in the second quarter from $ 960 million in the first quarter, while bookings rose to more than $ 5 billion from more than $ 3.8 billion in the prior quarter, Bloomberg said.

McCue also said that when thinking about Apple as a competitor — a company with a market cap of $ 630 billion and more than $ 200 billion in cash on its books — he often thinks about Intuit, one of the pioneers of the accounting software market.

One of the amazing things about lateral learning is that you can often learn much more from your peers, role models, and even competitors than you can from any teacher, class, book, or lecture.

The book he's talking about is called Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All, which is more about mindfulness than it is about making money.

One: books about how the financial crash happened and why (Making it Happen, The Alchemists, The Unwinding, The Billionaire's Apprentice, After the Music Stopped) and two: books about the business and culture of technology (The Everything Store, Smarter Than You Think, as well as Hatching Twitter, by Nick Bilton and Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution, by Fred Vogelstein.)

The 2015 paper, published in the journal PNAS, suggests that Facebook «likes» can reveal more about people than just interest and music, movie, book, and sports preferences.

Jeffrey Pfeffer proclaims in this new book that «much of the oft - repeated conventional wisdom about leadership is based more on hope than reality, on wishes rather than data, on beliefs instead of science.»

In his book Where the Jobs Are: Entrepreneurship and the Soul of the American Economy, Dearie and his co-author interviewed more than 200 founders about the challenges of building businesses.

For example, in his book Nudge, Richard Thaler talks about how grocery store products on shelves at eye level get purchased more than those down by the floor.

Comic fans are one of the hardest - to - please audiences imaginable for popular adaptations of their favorite books, so even getting a passing mark makes Disney look better than just about anyone else.

In your book, you talk about how games make us happy by providing satisfying tasks, achievable goals and the chance to be part of something bigger than ourselves.

Any bookstore can also order it if you give them the full title: «Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World» — there are more than 60 Guerrilla Marketing books that cover other aspects of business and have nothing to do with what we've been talking about.

Being able to talk about economic concepts with a bit more knowledge than we have, requires reading this book.

Based on financial results for the first eight months of 2010 - 11 and adjusting for the large extra-ordinary liabilities booked in 2009 - 10, which inflated the deficit outcome for that year, the deficit for 2010 - 11 will be about $ 7 billion lower than forecast in the October 2010 Update.

Judging from the testimonials — including many well known people — everyone likes this bookThis is more than a be nice or feel good book, although it did make me feel good about being nice.

Any bookstore can also order it if you give them the full title: «Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green» — there are more than 60 Guerrilla Marketing books that cover other aspects of business and have nothing to do with what we've been talking about.

About the Book: Alone among Levinson's more than 60 Guerrilla Marketing books in the long - running series, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World focuses on social entrepreneurship.

Michael Wolff's tell - all about the Trump administration book has sold more than 1.7 million copies in the combined formats of hardcover, e-books and audio.

As MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee put it more recently than Keynes in their 2014 book about automation's economic impact, The Second Machine Age: «Our generation has inherited more opportunities to transform the world than any other.

And you know, look, I had read a ton of books at that point but they were so... you read «Market Wizards» by Schwager, and then you read Peter Lynch, and then you read Jack Bogle, you've got three completely different... So I read Nick Murray, was the book that made... probably changed more about my investment philosophy than anything else.

«This is more than a leadership book, it's more than a book, it's a guide to creating a meaningful life, it's about achieving your values and leading others to achieve theirs.

If you read this one book you'll know enough to invest sensibly for retirement without getting ripped off by financial product salespeople, and you'll understand more about investing than 85 % of the general population.

In the 1st edition of my book, Time of the Vulture: How to Survive the Crisis and Prosper in the Process (2007), I predicted a financial crisis even more devastating than the Great Depression was about to happen.

I find the Wizard books so thought - provoking because, rather than being just a collection of stories about past investments, they provide insights into how each manager thinks.

Unfortunately, most e-publishers are pretty hush - hush about the amount of money their authors receive in royalties, but it's safe to say that it's probably more than mainline publishers offer, but not as much as you'd get from publishing your book yourself.

Our reading of the results to date, coupled with the absence of any large liabilities to be booked in the end - of - year accounting period, would imply a deficit for 2010 - 11 of about $ 38.5 billion, about $ 7 billion lower than the deficit of $ 45.4 billion forecast in the October 2010 Update.

For a novel, it taught me more about the world than most nonfiction books I've read.

Many of the dumb mistakes of omission I've made have come from caring too much about exactly what a business looks like now (what it's reporting in earnings, showing in book value, etc.) rather than what I think it'll roughly look like in 5 years.

The broader TOPIX trades for about 1.3 times book value which is way up from 0.8 before the rally but a heck of a lot less than the US ratio of 2.7.

Suning had more than 1,600 outlets in about 290 cities in China selling appliances, books and baby products as of August last year.