Sentences with phrase «n't ideas people»

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And with good reason; millions of entrepreneurs and businesspeople have embraced the idea that carving out a slice of an existing market can certainly be effective, but finding new opportunities — finding blue oceans — is even better, since those gains don't have to come at the expense of other businesses or other people.

Strange Success is about people who come up with crazy ideas to solve a problems you may not even realize exist.

«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.

Then he went to a person he respected in the office of a client and was handed an idea: use the existing company vehicles to not just deliver packages during the strike, but also help Perfect Courier's clients get their people where they needed to be.

When Lyft first launched, recalls the company's director of marketing strategy & operations Gina Ma, «it felt like really asking people to participate in this really big sort of social experiment almost — the idea of doing these things that your mom always told you not to do.»

Carrots and sticks are fine, but when you violate who we are as people, when you challenge our pride, when you don't respect what we need... the quality of your idea doesn't really matter.

I want to back the people best positioned to successfully invest in tomorrow's groundbreaking ideas — and they're not always the people who successfully invested in yesterday's.

People who aren't afraid to be different naturally stretch boundaries and challenge the status quo, and they often come up with the best ideas.

Adam Alter: «Nomophobia» is a new word that's being coined to describe no mobile phobia, and it's the idea that a lot of us, in thinking about not having our phones, experience something like a phobia, and this is supposed to describe hundreds of millions of people today, and I'm sure that number is growing at the moment.

At my company, we're firm believers that the person who's been here the longest doesn't necessarily have the best idea.

After all, most people don't access the telephone via telephone lines anymore either, so the idea that in 2017 the Internet would come to your home through a traditional copper telephone line seems ridiculous.

In a busy world, people aren't going to spend a lot of time evaluating your ideas if they're not sure you're credible.

People want free markets — and the free flow of goods and services across borders — but they don't want to be told that other places are better places to do business, and they don't like the idea that another nation might grab a bigger share of corporate tax revenues.

«Part of the problem with chasing this idea of «viral» is that people build content that doesn't have anything to do with the brand,» Berger contends.

As a CEO, I refuse to lead a company where people may feel their ideas aren't valued simply because of who they are.

The difference — the real difference — isn't easy to spot, but here it is: all that activity, all those busy people, gallons of coffee, whiteboard hieroglyphics and lines of code were triggered when one person had an idea.

But if you invest with the idea that rates will never rise again, or at least not for decades, then a lot of the tried - and - true investing rules that people have been following suddenly change.

They catch on when people don't understand what they are saying, adjust their approach and re-communicate their idea in a way that can be understood.

Even with practice, emotionally intelligent people know that they don't communicate every idea perfectly.

But what matters most, says Roberts, who came to Venrock in 1997, just after earning a Ph.D. in chemistry and chemical - biology from Harvard, isn't that «brilliant idea» that launched the company — but rather the brilliant person who's leading it.

The vast majority of new businesses don't fail because they lack good ideas or good people; companies fail because they can't pay bills long enough to sustain themselves.

There are certainly times when hiring a financial planner is a good idea, but not everyone needs one, and some people are better off without one.

And while this has largely benefited residents of Silicon Valley, who have immediate admission into a row of venture capitalists, on a macroeconomic scale, this has proven to be inefficient, as the majority of people with ideas and talent do not have admittance into this elitist group.

Be courageous, challenge people to come up with the next idea - incremental or great, it doesn't matter.

Some of the best companies pivot or excel because of great ideas from their people; why not allow your team members to make waves in your own company?

If people don't see it actually happening, they think it's a crazy idea, so it's better this way.»

I may not create the next iPhone, but my ideas, services, and products can impact people's lives.

Blackwell sees a lot of people who never make it to the finish line with their idea because they haven't done their research.

He's heard things like «really strong leader with great ideas,» and «I can't believe how much he's changed — he's a new person!»

You can list feature after feature and spout benefit after benefit, but if there isn't one unified idea to umbrella that under, people are going to miss out on that «aha!»

Investors that he approached found the concept intriguing but couldn't understand why he wanted to spend $ 1 million to $ 2 million to start a chain of stores when he had no idea whether people wanted to buy his environmentally friendly merchandise.

This one's easy, your goal is not to be the smartest person in the room, it's to learn from those who have more experience, creative ideas, and bring a new perspective.

He advises job seekers to, as they do in the Valley's money circles, invest in people, not ideas.

«When I first proposed the idea of a serial show that you couldn't binge on and had to wait for every week, some people thought I was insane,» Koenig recently told New York magazine.

It's not a bad idea, since vaccines are similar to robot cars — they could save many people from death and illness, but they may occasionally make others seriously ill.

However, that doesn't mean you can't look to others for ideas — a number of business people have inspired me over the past few years.

Not only can it open you up to ideas or people you've never even heard of, it also introduces you to new ways of thinking about things.

Susan Cain, TED speaker and author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, cites research conducted by Adam Grant at the Wharton School who found that introverted leaders often get better results, compared with extroverts, because the latter can unwittingly squelch creativity by not giving up the reins and letting people run with their own ideas.

The question is if people buy into the idea that (1) smartphones really do harm their ability to take in the world (or, at least, are more «harmful» than «entertaining»), and (2) that they don't have the willpower to keep their noses out of their notifications, and thus need a phone that is designed to preempt most apps altogether.

Many people get hung up not having extra money to develop a business idea.

As computer pioneer Howard Aiken so aptly said, «Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

Most people don't benefit from needlessly bashing your ideas.

You have no idea how lucky you are that I'm not your boss, because I would fire you all, take apart your union, and re-hire people who would work for half your wages.

For writers and professional speakers like me, this means that if people are not disagreeing with you, walking out of your events, challenging your articles and ideas, you are playing too safe and not working at the edge.

«The idea was that Lenny could be more obnoxious than a real person, and tell people point - blank that they're idiots not to shop around» says Lebda.

However, it seems like plenty of locations fall into that category, because people are — unsurprisingly — loving the idea and wondering why someone didn't come up with it sooner.

«Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.»

This means people with big ideas don't need to spend big money to turn a concept into a product.

«The U.S. doesn't have a monopoly on good ideas, and if we close our doors to great people and ideas, that capital will go overseas.»

One person said, «Brian, I hope that's not the only idea you're working on.»