Sentences with phrase «done something for so»

And you can only do that if you haven't done something for so long.

While these programs are usually beneficial to the community, they serve as platforms for religious dogma — the old «hey we are doing something for you so you need to listen to, and believe what we tell you regardless of how counterintuitive it may seem».

Going back to school was a bit of a shock to the system as doing something for so long already it had become natural and trying to revert to the formal structure of presentation and briefings took a few days.

Not exact matches

«I remember, like, you don't often get so obsessed about something where you drop everything and drive to Boston and meet with people for 14 hours, taking notes, losing your voice, with no idea just to learn,» he said.

So Biderman, — the self - described «King of Infidelity» — who just last year told PROFIT 500 researchers that «there's no such thing as bad attention for our business» — did something that would be unthinkable to most entrepreneurs: He fired himself.

But so are the benefits: proximity to high - level execs, who drop in for pep talks and training sessions (founder Marc Benioff did not appear the week I was there, but his aura was everywhere); free run of the City by the Bay after hours; and the glow, the buzz, the grace that imbue Salesforce's vibrant headquarters in San Francisco's SoMa district, reminding initiates at every turn that they're part of something special.

You could also earn some tips in the process so it's a great option for people that are looking to do something in their spare time, similar to the big ride - sharing apps that are hogging up app stores everywhere.

A few years ago at an SXSW conference, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said something so uncharacteristic for a scientifically - minded, tech entrepreneur, it made many people do a double take.

And in so doing, it can make the case that it cares about artists — something they've been longing to hear from anyone for years.

So... change your thinking about «starting up» your new business, and you just might discover a great opportunity in your own neighborhood that you can start to work for a fraction of what it would take to do something else.

There's something very prideful about wanting to build our own world - beating businesses and not wanting to be a simple branch - plant economy, but in a globalized era there are many roadblocks — such as access to the big bucks needed for expansion — to doing so.

«Japan has been in deflation was for so long, so it is about time someone woke up and did something about it and it does seem like that is happening now,» said Nicholas Smith, Director and Strategist at CLSA in Tokyo.

«We've been following around Paul for like five years, so we felt it was something we had to do,» said Moreau, a 23 - year - old student.

«The biggest concern the regulators have is just that they don't want unsuspecting consumers to get caught up in something they're not familiar with, so they're always erring on the side of caution,» Stephen Innes, head of trading for Asia Pacific with Oanda Corp., said in a phone interview from Singapore.

Perhaps that explains why it's so rare to see Musk talk to someone on the phone without simultaneously doing something else: pecking out an e-mail, scanning invoices, mulling over a spreadsheet, shopping for computer equipment, fiddling with his BlackBerry.

For years of consistency, you have to develop systems of things like saving your ideas in a file, creating an environment conducive to writing, and knowing how to tell people you can't do something so you can write.

The WikiLeaks founder is wanted on sexual assault charges in Sweden and he's worried that the U.S. government is after him for spilling so many of its secrets — something he has promised to keep doing in 2013.

«One of the things I learned how to do really well is talk around something,» she says, «so even if I don't have the words for exactly what I want, I can still express myself pretty well.»

When I asked him for the secret to success, Gardner said, «Find something that you love to do so much you can't wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.»

The highest valued stocks are now making the big moves — «highest valued» meaning the highest price - to - earnings, highest price - to - sales [multiples]-- so I'm begging you to do something for me: if you're going to own these stocks... please know what you're buying,» the «Mad Money» host said.

Salary plus bonuses for a job well done, the ability to work from home if your child is sick or something comes up in your personal life, consistent celebrations throughout the year, and free snack bar during year end so you don't have to worry about food and can save some money over the holidays.

But in doing so, Tesla left a path open for a hacker to gain control of something called Kubernetes, which is an open - source cloud - services management tool Tesla and many other companies use.

«While it may sound counterintuitive to apologize to someone for something that clearly wasn't your fault, amazing things happen when you can bring yourself to do so.

So, next time you have to learn something, don't just reach for the flash cards and highlighter pens.

So, other things being equal, it is better to spend money on doing something good for people (e.g., providing someone with a job) than it is to spend money on mere machines.

Even so, as a maker of domestic appliances, Dyson does have long experience of running a global supply chain and manufacturing operations — something that has caused significant problems for fresh industry entrants such as Tesla.

We know if we want to achieve something we have to do something, and maybe the actions you take aren't getting you the results you want, so here are seven things you should start doing for yourself today because they will give the success you want tomorrow.

«I'm not sure why people are so shocked that someone who had been doing something for eight or 10 years would want to move on,» she says.

Glickman: A common pivot we see is around health care: Students want to do something for patients, and as they develop their idea, they realize that it's the insurance companies that pay for this service, so they need to pivot one part of the business by thinking about the needs of who's paying.

So when a company does change the direction of its industry for the better, it's certainly something to celebrate.

There must be something about Starbucks that makes people want to do this, as president Michelle Gass wakes up at 4:30 every morning to go running, and has done so for 15 years.

Janeczko wanted to do something to help other people grow their own businesses, so he decided to gather funds from the sale of NuKitchen in 2010 to found Wicked Start, a free online incubator for early - stage small businesses.

So ask yourself, if you are going to have your expert say something, did you allow time for people to interact with it and actually use it?

The beauty of fringe benefits is that you are generally providing something the employee would otherwise have to purchase, and you're doing so without incurring a tax liability for your company or the employee.

Because he was so willing to take something that he was branded with, his face, and he liked to cook and he wanted to do some good and he just raised just millions of dollars and continues to raise millions of dollars for charities.

«The wind and the sun have all been there for a long time, so why don't we leverage them to create something new?»

«I'll ask [potential hires] about something that hasn't gone so well in their life and then ask them what they've learned from it because the next thing I look for in people is curiosity,» he says, «I'm interested in people who take those negative experiences in their lives and are really curious about what happened and can talk intelligently about what they learned and what they might do differently.»

I am not looking for something for nothing, and in general if I have been treated badly I want assurances that meaningful actions will be taken to ensure that if I do business with you again, I won't be treated so shabbily.

So there comes a time when you say, we've done an amazing job, we've grown it to be something that's truly spectacular, and now it's time for it to take the next step.

And so, by October of that year, Rosen finally did something he'd been contemplating for weeks.

«We were behind the curve in terms of ad dollars spent, so we felt that if we didn't do something dramatic, it would become harder and harder for us to brand ourselves,» he says.

For me, writing is something I want to keep doing and refining, so I might want to find a great place to sit, people watch and write.

The assumption that I would have time is kind of insulting, implying that I am waiting for these emails to come so that I would have something to do.

We did some follow - up research to bring the data up to the present day so we could look for trends and maybe learn something.

I probably was a little more flexible on the stay at home path for a time being because I was able to create something unique for myself so I didn't completely leave the work life.»

This is something I didn't get for so long.

A job is where you do something you care about so well that other people want to pay you for doing it for them.

«Everyone is always on their phones, so we knew that for the holidays we had to do something that connects their personal device to the window.»

It was something I did so they'd know I was thinking of them and it was also a little strategic because I could use the same email to inquire about new work in order to line up projects for my return in the New Year.

«There's a lot of burden being put on individuals to have an understanding and mastery of something that's so complex that it would be impossible for them to do what they need to do,» she said.