Sentences with phrase «not harder this year»

Are you ready to work smarter, not harder this year?

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Launching a new business takes many years of hard work, and that demands a sort of resolve that can not be easily phased.

To appreciate that, just look at old enterprise software from five to 10 years ago: It was hard - edged, unfriendly software that didn't take the needs of the people using it into account.

«It is hard to add our bills to a year - end package that does not yet exist.»

«A boy doesn't need to study hard to have a good job,» [16 - year - old Nawar] Mousa said.

Seventeen years ago, it was hard for anyone working in the burgeoning digital media industry to imagine a world where Yahoo (YHOO) and AOL didn't rule the Web.

For now, though, since launching the website and the iOS app at the end of last year, the cofounders say it hasn't been hard for their innovative concept to take hold in the UAE market.

«Over six years together, and the relationship wasn't right, but all the memories, experiences and TIME together made it hard to admit.

«I don't think we are going to see [hard seltzer] reach the size of hard soda, but we will see as new players enter, especially this year,» Danelle Kosmal, vice president of Nielsen's beverage alcohol division, told Fortune.

One thing to know: The Buccaneers» season didn't go the way many viewers of «Hard Knocks» expected this year.

We also saw not only a resurgence of consulting but private equity, venture capital, and hedge funds, which had been sleepy for a two - year period, began to push very hard.»

«I bet the numbers show a 20 percent increase over last year's Prime Day, which I expect to cause a boatload of retail analysts to come out of the woodwork and downgrade any retailer that is still standing that they haven't downgraded yet,» Cramer said, adding that only then might the market find a bottom for some of the hardest hit brick - and - mortar names.

Perhaps if Mao hadn't struck down an entire generation in the Cultural Revolution and China had started integrating its economy and ambitions 20 years earlier, that hard and soft power might have been assembled.

«The hardest decision that I made this year wasn't to invest so much in safety and security — that decision was easy,» Zuckerberg said.

«The stress took years off my life, but when you get that kind of responsibility, it's hard not to feel ownership.»

Whether you agree with her often polarizing, brutally honest opinions or not, it's hard to argue with the 67 - year - old Shark's assertion that women still have a long way to go in the battle to succeed in the male - dominated world of entrepreneurship, and they have to be resourceful to get ahead.

But it's not without risk — something Samsung learned the hard way this year after rushing to market the faulty Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, which combusted enough times to warrant a mass recall (and some serious brand damage).

«Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years, and working really hard to make that future a reality.»

«For us, it's that sort of connection between ideas that were fringe years ago — out of the mainstream — are suddenly mainstream, and seeing the path is not hard to follow.»

The recent implosion of General Electric should not be blamed on Jack Welch, the hard - driving former CEO who had built the conglomerate into a global powerhouse over 20 years, said former GE director Ken Langone.

About two years ago, Toronto youth - travel tour operator Alexander Handa took a hard look at the limited Canadian market and realized his growth horizons didn't extend very far.

Given the average professional service business runs on profit margins of around 10 percent, having clients not pay you for 100 days means you're eating up every cent of profit for a year worth of hard work to cover their bad behavior.

Of course, I couldn't be that surprised, given that this is something I've been advising clients on for the better part of a year: it's hard to compete with Facebook, especially when you're in a defensive stance.

Rents have risen 20 % over the past five years while they city's vacancy rate is below 1 %, meaning investors should not have to work very hard to find a tenant.

It's hard not to wonder just why the committee overlooks her work year after year, or the work of many other women who assuredly deserve one.

Assuming that you are smart and willing to work hard but aren't at the top of the world's richest, you may have a great idea, but you don't know how to turn that into a business that keeps growing at over 100 % a year.

Not only would there be a huge human factor to consider in sending them back to countries with which most aren't familiar, but the cost to our economy could be staggering: According to a Center for American Progress study earlier this year, the estimated loss of DACA workers would reduce U.S. GDP by $ 433 billion over the next 10 years, with California, Texas and Illinois being hit hardest.

What's remarkable about this year's list is not what these professors share — they're all intelligent, hard - working, and dedicated to their work — but what distinguishes them one from another.

«Over the next few years, it will be increasingly hard to buy a set that doesn't have an Ethernet connection,» writes Peter Kafka.

It's not too hard to understand why workers might like this plan; it offers them the ultimate flexibility: Instead of running out or cramming vacations into the last few weeks of the year, vacation days can be taken at any time.

After years of trying to turn rubber into something useful that wouldn't freeze rock hard or melt in the hot sun, Charles Goodyear was struggling.

«Setting the targets is a little hard to do in a young company, because there is no long - term historical trend you can refer to,» says Jeffrey Wojcik, who was part of the team that designed the goals and who may not receive a bonus this year.

Printing chromosomes today isn't much harder than 3 - D printing was a few years ago.

And if that isn't enough, two companies are currently hard at work developing a 1,000 - seat facility in Oakland's Jack London Square for the sole purpose of watching other people play video games, aka eSports, a $ 463 million global business this year.

What experts do know, however, is that over the past 20 years, passwords have become more complex and harder to use, while security hasn't improved significantly at all.

It doesn't feel too hard or too easy and it's continued to evolve over the last 30 years.

«The extreme optimism about economic growth this year has cooled as the hard data have come in constructive but not exceptional,» wrote Michelle Meyer, Bank of America Merrill Lynch's US economist, and her colleagues in their research.

First, if you haven't already done so, take those simple low - and no - cost steps that security experts have drummed into our heads for years: Choose hard - to - guess passwords and change them often.

As they watched the market crash during their early years, many of them became hesitant to invest in a hard asset that might not retain its value.

Yet you would like to get something for all your years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears, so just shutting the business down is not an option.

So the pre-election Republican position, backed by allies such as the Chamber of Commerce, to extend all of the tax cuts and postpone all of the spending cuts until the leaders work out a deal is not likely to win over many Democrats, who seem more inclined to let the tax cuts expire and start from scratch next year, presumably making it harder for Republicans to resist.

Hard to call that a success, but media company valuations have retreated substantially over the past five years, so in relative terms, it isn't that bad.

I am now at a point in life where I can be proud of my years of hard work, but I know that I would be only half as far had I not crafted a dream list.

But that ticket wasn't free: It cost four hard years of working two jobs on top of classes.

He has lots of hard evidence to back it up, too: if you measure prosperity in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, not only has Canada been lagging the States for years, but lately that «prosperity gap» has grown bigger — reaching about $ 8,900 as of 2010.

A few years ago those BBM spots worked pretty hard at pushing the brand beyond its traditional suit - and - tie demographic, but ultimately weren't able to significantly move the dial.

You'd dismiss the stunt as totally ridiculous, if it weren't for the fact that, hard on the heels of its well - financed rival, Borland International Inc. is valued at $ 680 million, a mere eight years later.

It's not that hard — though it took several years and several million dollars for us to get it right.

Considering how hard of a time even Nintendo's had making that genre work in recent years, our expectations aren't sky - high for «Yooka - Laylee» — but some clever level design and an evolution of the genre could very well be in the cards.

Those jobs have been disappearing for years — and, not to sound hard - hearted, thank goodness they're going away.