Sentences with phrase «good doing that very thing»

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Entrepreneurs dream of bringing to market the next big thing but you can do very well just by recognizing the next big thing and improving it.

It has become not just a company extremely admirable in its growth, but, well, the very model for how to do things when you're scaling a company.

And in order to execute against that, we've got to do many things in parallel and we've got to do them very well.

The good news is that they are generally wrong about that, but the bad news is that it often kills the deal before they learn that very few things are as easy to do as they are to talk about.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

In 2005, he became mayor of Solo — the very city whose slums he had grown up in — and did so good a job busting corruption and cleaning things up, that in 2012, he unseated incumbent Fauzi Bowo to become governor of Jakarta, the sprawling megacity.

Those who possess minimal emotional and mental resources can do very silly things, but their intentions are almost always good.

The best thing lawmakers can do is consult the cryptocurrency industry when drafting new legislation or regulation to better understand it, and to be very clear about what definitions are used, Fanusie said.

«If they don't have the product and some early market traction, they're not going to get very far in the funding anyway,» he says, «so the best thing they can do to work on their funding is work on the product.»

«We really have to consider the fact up until not very long ago the best thing a woman could do for herself and her status and her future was to marry well,» she said.

«First of all,» he says, «it makes [employees] feel special, and it builds their self esteem, which is a very powerful thing to do when it comes to employees — if you can help them build their self - esteem, then they'll go and continue to try and do it better.»

Ask yourself why you're doing the same thing you were doing last year; ask if there is a very good reason for it, and then ask again.

The problem with this free thing is, if you're going to hook people on free for four years, and all of a sudden start charging for things, that doesn't work very well.»

I don't know how things have worked out for you, but for me, whenever I've ignored my intuition - that little voice inside my Crown, things haven't worked out very well.

Chesky, who recently talked to Fortune about his leadership strategy, agrees, saying «It's very important that I spend my time looking over the horizon... A lot of the things I've been doing, maybe Belinda is a lot better at them than I am.»

Netflix does one thing — video streaming — very well, but many of its competitors are multi-faceted companies.

A few days later, Sherry Cooper, the chief economist at Dominion Lending Centres and the former chief economist at the Bank of Montreal, told Business News Network she was «very worried» about skyrocketing home prices in Vancouver and Toronto because «these things generally don't end well.»

«I like that they're focused on doing one thing very well, but the more diversified your business, the less there's a chance one area will take a big bite out of your earnings when it's disrupted.»

Canavari: Well, you know, here's the thing they do and we consider them a very close partner.

«One of the things I learned back in my days at Netscape was that, in the face of very serious competition, you need to remain focused on your users and customers, and if you do that, chances are you will be able to build a pretty good business,» McCue said.

«Pop thought organic was the same thing as health food, which in those days didn't necessarily taste very good,» said Nell, a biologist and environmentalist who now runs her own charitable foundation.

«Things are working pretty well, and I would be worried that if I raised rates significantly with negative interest rates in Europe, I would be very worried about what that would do to the flow of funds.»

«Perhaps it's because I live a very boring and uneventful life and doing anything is be better than the alternative, or perhaps it's because that during the time I was doing Random Acts of Pasta, the only thing on my mind was who I was going to take pasta to,» Tribe said.

This sounds like it might be painful or difficult, but the surprising thing is that again you will lose a lot of cravings as well as be very satisfied with how much you're eating — if you do this correctly by eliminating carbs and eating more fat, and start burning fat for energy.

We communicate very well, and I think that's helped me through a lot of things that I've seen and done.

«It doesn't make sense for us to wander away and do things that we're not very good at,» chief executive Stephen Wetmore told analysts during a call Thursday.

These changes could mean even more growth, but they also represent a series of gambles for a company that has done very well by keeping things so simple for so long.

And the best way to compete with the winner (or current market leader) is by either doing less (not more) and focusing on one thing and doing it very well.»

The whole thing can be a huge pain in the ass, and for multinationals who do not keep very good records of their China operations, they might simply be unable to support their claim.

When cheap imports dropped the bottom out of that industry I picked up a fast - food manager training program, and three years later wound up in college where I did very well (including, of all things, enjoying learning about Shakespeare and Henry Clay!)

Seems to me that this is the very worst time to increase rates, and doing so would cause more damage to our economy; but I believe this administration would do anything to make us believe things are better than they really are, at the expense of everyone's financial security.

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GREENBLATT: Well you know I taught at Columbia as I mentioned for the last 22 years and so I tell my students that first day of class actually, I tell them that you know I don't think there's a lot of social value in being an investment manager, it's not that I don't think investors who do work set help set prices and allocate capital and all those things, but I just think A, they're not very good at it, and B, it'll get done without you.

Overall, your professionalism, flexibility, good humor and topic were perhaps the most fitting keynote to close out my last LIM, and I am very grateful that things turned out as they did.»

These are all the kinds of things that HR managers and talent developers obsess over, and also the sorts of questions people ask themselves when they're deciding between job offers: Should I work at Company A, where I'd have better benefits but a worse commute, or Company B, which does important work but doesn't pay very well?

There are some things people don't learn very well in the classroom.

You could imagine things that, I don't know the science of this that well, but there are early markers of things like heart attacks and possibly there are things people could wear that would help alert them very early.

If companies have excess cash, like say Apple does, I think it can be a very good thing to give some of that excess cash back to the shareholders.

The best thing about keeping money in these index funds is that I don't have to worry about it and they are low - tax since very little trading is done within them.

This sounds like it might be painful or difficult, but the surprising thing is again you will lose a lot of cravings as well as be very satisfied with how much you're eating — if you do this correctly by eliminating carbs, eating more fat, and start burning fat for energy.

Here are a few common «lack of focus» examples I see amongst founders all the time: — Doing shit that makes them look busy, but doesn't have significant impact — Trying to do too many things instead of one thing really well — Getting things done themselves instead of taking time to build the team — Fundraising when it's not time — Acquiring users when existing ones keep churning — Adding features instead of fixing or removing the ones they have — Having multiple audiences, rather than one very targeted — Paying attention to vanity metrics or too many metrics instead of core KPIs — Following the competition's every move — Obsessing with getting up on TechCrunch (or other press)-- Attending multiple networking events a week

They're really hitting on an under - served market, which is is a very good thing for young people who don't have enough to hit the minimums of financial advisors.

I don't shop there very often, and I can often get things at better prices elsewhere.

Hey Henry — you are right, and actually I found that even after publishing this many folks still reach out to me asking for the best way to get started, so I recently published a super simple guide to the very first thing you should do with respect to keyword research (and I included a free tool that helps speed up the consolidation process) You can check it out here: http://www.seonick.net/keyword-research-tool

For example, I can remember selling real estate when interest rates were 22 % but the interesting thing is that for those individuals who were brave enough to purchase back then, they did very well on the sale value of the property down the road.

I don't think this implicit correlation is a very good way of viewing things.

I also came to understand that one of the best things I could do for a client was to simply listen to what they had to say and that with a very few questions, a client would often tell me their most important needs and wants.

Bottom Line: The Marriott Rewards ® Premier Credit Card does two things very well — it rewards purchases with the co-branded chain very well, and it gets users 1 free night stay every year.

It's not bloated with a bunch of other stuff you may not need and it's easy to use, yet powerful, because it focus on doing one thing and doing it very well.

Stop worrying about all the things that make headlines and focus instead on giving your very best to those areas that you can do something about.