Sentences with phrase «n't run big»

After the Executive Travel Summit, I overheard Jeff Robertson telling a group of attendees that SM wants to reduce the number of SM in circulation (that's why they haven't run any big bonus promotions recently; and why we can't expect any in the near future).

I know Amazon has been lax in enforcing its own rules for the last year or so, but that doesn't mean they won't run a big sweep again the way they did in 2012 as a result of the paid review scams reported in the New York Times.

Small company people can't run big, because they can't let go.

The shoe does not run big on me.

I have not run any big funds.

If you aren't running that big of a list, it will definitely be a waste to go with an answering service.

Not exact matches

That last point can't be overstated — my biggest problem with running shoes is that they are hard to wash and often don't feel the same afterwards.

But in the short run, Belt and Road is creating opportunities for Chinese companies and big multinationals alike — ones that their shareholders can't ignore.

That way, he is guiding her, but he isn't trying to run the company through her, and that makes a big difference.

If you run a small business with a big potential, how can you hire the best people to join your team when you don't have the deep pockets or ridiculous perks a big company can offer?

People aren't as worried about a Canadian housing crash as they used to be, and the Canadian financial sector — our other big industry — continues to be a well - run oligopoly.

Everyone wants to know whether you are laying the ground work, not necessarily now, but perhaps four years from now, to run for the big office.

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.

Speaking at the New York Times DealBook conference, Cuban said that his family is a huge factor in why he hasn't officially announced plans to run for president, and it sounds like his wife might be his biggest opposition.

It doesn't matter if someone else's statement feels «bigger» than yours - thinking that way indicates that your ego is running the show.

Despite the fact that Canada's biggest banks have been on a remarkable earnings run since mid-2013 profits in the future aren't expected to be nearly as spectacular.

With all the stresses and commitments involved in running a company, do you ever feel you don't have enough time to do the big - picture thinking your business needs to thrive?

This new stream may well run dry, but it's the kind of risk that shows your leadership isn't afraid to make those shifts that can lead to big growth.

«Even if Uber can get 10 percent of that market, in the long run that still gives them a revenue of $ 200 billion [a year], which will make them one of the biggest companies in the world,» says Sundararajan, who didn't divine when he thought this might happen.

What a lot of people don't know is that in 1892 it made that big shift that turned it from also - ran to a household name.

But it's been a big run - up this year and they're just not sure it's realistic.»

On the other hand, if you are relying on big business like the NBA to run as usual, what are you doing to protect yourself on the chance that it does not.

There's nothing unusual about affiliate marketing, but Left alleges Shopify's financial relationships to its affiliates are not disclosed, running afoul of the Federal Trade Commission in the U.S., which has made a big push for transparency in advertising.

Conventional wisdom is that a 4 % annual drawdown rate is the way to go — a withdrawal big enough to keep your retirement years comfortable, but not so big that you risk running out of money prematurely.

Apple also made a big deal over two new fitness apps — one for tracking my movements everyday, the other for tracking specific activities like a 5 - mile run — but I wasn't able to test those out.

The CEOs» biggest reason for opposing the proposal was because they felt that Canada's system is well run and doesn't need the bank tax.

Being able to roll up our own sleeves and help out certainly creates a narrative of optimism, where climate change isn't such a big problem that we just want to run and hide from it, burying our heads in the sand (as the sea level rises).

During the run - up to baseball's 2014 season, the big guys realized they couldn't ignore Meenan any longer, and he signed a licensing agreement with Major League Baseball.

This will allow you to hire more employees to keep revenue flowing and ensure that your business continues to grow — as long as it's managed properly and you don't trip over your shoelaces as you start running faster with bigger projects on your hands.

We felt that if we didn't get on the stick and move to these next generations products, we were going to get run over by the big guys.»

The candidate from her party running in Buenos Aires — the country's biggest province — has demurred when asked about the situation in the Venezuela, saying that he did not know «in detail» what was going on there, later stressing the differences between the tenures of Chavez and Maduro and calling for dialogue with a third party, such as the Pope.

This is not the first time a big Internet company has co-opted Android: Amazon.com's Kindle Fire tablets run a version of Android that strips out all Google services, replacing them with Amazon's equivalents.

Plus, with expectations for Valeant as low as they are, the next CEO doesn't really have to worry about big shoes to fill, Ackman suggested: «You don't want to be CEO after Jack Welch has been running the company,» he said, referring to the legendary CEO of General Electric (ge).

But Jim Chanos, the founder of the world's biggest short selling firm, hasn't run for cover.

Other universities are watching carefully and will likely follow Stanford's lead, says Chris Lesmes, former director of the Big Red Venture Fund, a student - run $ 2 million investment fund targeting startups at Cornell University and financed by alumni, not the school.

As one American - born Russian venture capitalist told Fortune: «Guys in their 40s are still working on their first fortunes, and the guys in their 60s running the big traditional industries don't have a taste for this young, risky, entrepreneurial stuff.»

It adds layers of obligations, regulations, costs, and pressures to the already challenging daily grind of running a business, not to mention hundreds of hours of planning, meetings with bankers and lawyers, and travel in preparation for the biggest event in the company's history.

A business will never grow without looking at the big picture, but leaders can't see the big picture if they're wrapped up in the day - to - day activities of running the business.

So here we have a big, lumbering guy weighed down with armor, who can't see much more than a few feet in front of his face, up against a kid running at him with a devastating weapon and a rock traveling with the stopping power of a.45 caliber handgun.

Of course, the Oracle doesn't worry himself with the day - to - day management of companies he owns; his biggest act of participation in four decades was in 2006 when he installed longtime Berkshire insurance man Brad Kinstler to run things after Chuck Huggins, who had been with the company 54 years and was CEO for 33 of them, retired.

Often those dreams are never realized, because the CEOs assume — correctly — that they can't afford the big, third - party software packages their industry's giants run.

One only has to think of the steep price defunct bookseller paid for having Amazon run its web site for years, or how much bigger Target's (tgt) would be if it hadn't waited until 2011 to take back oversight of its e-commerce from Amazon to understand the skittishness.

Not content to run with the pack — or «blessing,» as a group of unicorns is sometimes known — venture capitalists have begun targeting even bigger game.

They don't have to be home runs - they can be singles and doubles, but they need to point people in the right direction and show them that there are big innings ahead and that things will only get better from here.

«The world's biggest online retailer wants to achieve record sales on this day, but employees have to produce record performance not only on this day so that everything runs how Amazon wants it,» said Verdi board member Stefanie Nutzenberger.

But for Cramer, the biggest positive driver for Axon wasn't the stock's 82 percent run since Smith's «Mad Money» interview or its burgeoning software business or its management's wildly positive future guidance.

It doesn't matter if you're running a business out of your home, the local Starbucks (free Internet), or an abandoned warehouse, if you have the right tools to reel in a large consumer base, it's not necessarily important how small your business is because it's doing big things.

There's not much difference between running this and any other inn... all right, there's one big difference.

If you're like me, you don't need constant pats on the back to keep running your business and always reaching for the next big goal.

Now if you have a big business — and I ran Hewlett - Packard and it is a huge business, and we don't like business regulations, but we can deal with them — but the bigger government gets and the more complex regulations get, and the more complicated the tax code gets — and all of that is happening — the more difficult it will be for small business.