Sentences with word «books»

To my eternal regret, I wrote an article for Fast Company a few years back saying that business books were the new business cards.

I don't have a lot of time in between my business and school to pick up and read physical books.

A lot of the people who are causing the problems we were trying to solve, they read business books.

You need to be as detailed as possible and know your type inside and out — what they eat for breakfast, the kind of books they read, whether they prefer kickboxing or yoga and how they spend their discretionary income.

At 13 years old, Dias is the founder of # 1000blackgirlbooks, a campaign that she started in 2015 with the goal to collect and donate 1,000 books to her peers that featured black girls as the main characters.

And, consider: More than 300,000 books are published per year.

If the consequences of «books as a business card» only came back to them, we could leave them to it.

I never said, «I want to write two books this year.»

-- Maia Haag, CEO of I See Me, founder of the digital outlet creating memorable personalized books and gifts for babies and kids.

I'm very fond of books set in England — especially if they're historical or mysterious.

«Turning the gesture of sending young school children books into something divisive is unfortunate, but the First Lady remains committed to her efforts on behalf of children everywhere.»

Like all Lewis books, it has verve.

His books can alter the way the public thinks about and conceives of entire worlds, from baseball management to football pass protection to the subprime mortgage crisis.

The first would be to set up «virtual retail pharmacies» alongside its dozens of other sales «departments,» from books and baby products to wine, and then contract directly with generic drug makers to sell their pills.

Remember when you were a kid and you colored in coloring books?

From pronouncements about the «death of literature» to predictions of shorter books, the pay - per - page system is being roundly criticized.

When the next generation of Chinese entrepreneurs rewrite the world over the next couple of decades, these are the books they'll be quoting from.

For what it's worth, Amazon currently sells books by a number of other serial killers and mass murderers, including the likes of John Wayne Gacy, David «Son of Sam» Berkowitz, and the most infamous mass murderer of all time, Adolf Hitler.

If you don't have quite enough time for that, here's a distillation of some of the most often recommended books that will get you up to speed as a new leader fast:

Gifting a Kindle will complete a similar task to gifting graduates some of the books every young adult should read.

Digital books made up about 20 % of the market last year, roughly the same as they did a few years ago, a fact that has traditional publishers almost gloating.

Rich 100 rank: # 29 Change in rank from 2017: No change Major company holdings: Onex, Indigo Books & Music Location: Toronto Age: 76 and 69

He is the author of four books.

There is perhaps no brighter ethical line sales professionals must not cross than the one prohibiting off - the - books inducements.

While Gates admits he isn't usually «one for tear - jerkers about death and dying,» he was drawn to Kalanithi's search for meaning through books, writing, his family, medicine, surgery, and science.

Here are some great content marketing books to help you supercharge your marketing strategy and grow your sales.

Here is a personal collection of some of the greatest opening words to some of the greatest books.

Having a couple inspirational books on hand that can motivate ambition and reaffirm priorities is nice to have, even if they don't pick them up for the first month or so that they're out of school.

Soon you find your shelves (or e-reader) overflowing with titles you intend to read one day, or books you flipped through once but then abandoned.

Can you imagine if I had made it my goal to write two books this year?

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Dropbox's young CEO Drew Houston learned about leadership from reading books by Intel icon Andy Grove.

ENTREPRENEUR: What books do you recommend entrepreneurs read to get a better grasp on data science?

It reminded me of the «blowing your customers up» mentality in perhaps one of the best business books ever written — Liar's Poker — where bond traders celebrated when they bankrupted their first customer.

But while that tidbit will inevitably make its way into the history books, her initiative to promote literacy is the core tenet of her legacy.

«People I've talked to who have looked at the books — to the extent you can — of the state - owned enterprises and estimated what would be their profit margin if they had to pay market rates for their inputs is that a lot of them would go bankrupt or they would be far less profitable,» Dobson says.

If asked, most of us could name at least a few iconic logos, whether it be Coca - Cola's cursive script or the namesake bird of Penguin Books.

Why are books not digitizing the way other media have?

A loyal and devoted following for his business books and priceless visibility for his consulting business, VaynerMedia.

She has demonstrated this in both actions and words since her husband took office, and sending books to schools across the country is but one example,» her spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail to Fortune.

The idea was to create a neutral baseline, protection against charges the government might cook the books.

To date, she has collected more than 10,000 books and spoke alongside Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey at the United State of Women Summit in 2016.

Books could indeed be the counter-point to the digital revolution — a physical experience that people want to escape to because they're tired of looking at screens all day.

That's why even if I am headed to a trade show, I'll ship everything I'll need — like a booth, materials, and books — to my hotel ahead of time so that I can be flexible when flying.

I can't think of any other issue where the laws on the books are inconsistent with the wishes of three - quarters of British Columbians,» said Angus Reid vice-president Mario Canseco at the release of the numbers.

The «Nancy Drew, Girl Detective» series kept me on the edge of my seat and was more timely than the books from the early - to - mid 1900s.

The website no longer offers those courses, either; it's just a landing page that links to popular books for affiliate revenue.

A school librarian in Boston rejected a box of Dr. Seuss books sent from First Lady Melania Trump, saying the choice of literature was «cliche» and her school was not in need of them.

In addition to working full - time as a financial analyst, Sall also honed his personal finance knowledge with the help of a few useful books.

Russell Brunson has built a following of over a million entrepreneurs, sold hundreds of thousands of his books and co-founded software company ClickFunnels, which helps tens of thousands of entrepreneurs quickly get their message out to the marketplace.