Sentences with phrase «of dream year»

Ben is the founder of Dream Year, The Whiteboard Sessions, and STORY in Chicago.

I know I would have had the body of my dreams years ago if I had of learned most of these things.

This type of coverage helps thousands of Canadians purchase the home of their dreams each year.

Not exact matches

«So I want tonight to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault because they, like my mother, had children to feed and bills to pay and dreams to pursue.

The decline is noteworthy because you'd think the stars were aligned for a boom in the construction of dream homes: the economy has been churning out jobs steadily for a year, real - estate prices are high, and interest rates are low.

Six years ago, Nintendo's Wii was in a position that every hardware company dreamed of — a game system that not only captured the imagination of the core player but also was widely and warmly embraced by the mass audience.

In 2011, I said «no» more and worked hard for four years to make my dream of being a global lifestyle entrepreneur a reality.

In October, Gene filed for bankruptcy — just over two years after making a salary most Canadians can only dream of.

Earlier this year, the Eagles finally clinched the Super Bowl win every resident's been dreaming of, it's on the shortlist for Amazon's new headquarters, and the real estate market has never been hotter.

Four years ago, Priebe started a venture dedicated to the dream of a bully - free Internet.

For the past 20 years, he's been quite literally dreaming up the solutions to his creative dilemmas in the dead of night.

For more than a year, she had been pursuing her dream of starting a venture capital fund focused on female, minority, and LGBT entrepreneurs.

The Small Business American Dream Gap Report examined today's economic landscape compared to a year ago and found that despite the positive outlook for small businesses, nearly three out of 10 small businesses reported finding it harder than in the past to reduce operating costs.

Having spent much of his career developing housing for seniors, the 68 - year - old is building something different for his own retirement, a waterfront dream home on 10 acres.

Read on for seven stories from this year's Oscar contenders to inspire you in the pursuit of your dream.

A 12 - year - old Chinese boy named Que Jianyu is one of an elite few individuals who occupy the center of that Venn diagram, after he successfully performed the stunt on a reality show called Dream of China late last year.

Years later, when she worked at the Chili's 20 minutes away from her hometown of Donna, Texas, she never dreamed of having her own baking business.

The biggest provider of mortgages for the past 50 years, Fannie Mae, had as their slogan, «We make the American Dream come true.»

Two years into McGuinty's green dream, the costs and challenges of doing all that are becoming clearer.

Garrett Creek Ranch www.garrettcreekranch.com Where: Paradise, Texas 940-433-2055 What: Owner Leslie Schulz dreamed up this quaint Old West resort — located an hour from the Dallas / Fort Worth Airport — after years of planning small meetings for her husband's financial services company.

On the surface, the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi appears to be about 85 - year - old legendary sushi master Jiro Ono, his approach to his craft, and his tiny, three - Michelin - starred restaurant in a Tokyo subway station.

When he was a 10 - year - old living in Cuba, Cabrera's family had dreams of immigrating to America.

Today, Corcoran is happily married to her second husband, Bill Higgins, and has two children, Tom, a 22 - year - old graduate of Columbia University, whom Corcoran had after seven years of in vitro attempts; and Katie, 11, whom she adopted after an exhaustive search, using the skills she honed writing ad copy for dream homes.

We have access to tools and information that business owners wouldn't have dreamed of even ten years ago.

Since I started this business over two years ago, I have had a goal of building an industry - leading service for local businesses, but I never dreamed we (SinglePlatform, the team, and me personally) would have had this opportunity.

Because, like most of you, I began college in my teens, but sophomore year, I was offered my dream job at Universal Studios, so I dropped out.

Think about something you dreamed of doing five or 10 years ago but didn't work to do — and think about how good you'd be today at that thing if you had.

Her advice totally goes against conventional wisdom, Vigeland admits, and following it is likely to be terrifying, but nonetheless she urges «everyone who's ever dreamed of setting fire to expense reports or tossing a uniform in the dumpster to take a flying leap in the year ahead.»

Here — for your reading pleasure — is a countdown of the year's most - viewed stories about far - out technologies and the entrepreneurs who are dreaming them up.

Despite pushback from her peers in Silicon Valley, Randi jumped at the opportunity, and after 10 years of setting her dream aside, Randi finally ended up on stage — and found a way to balance being a tech entrepreneur with her love of the arts.

Nick Bilton, a prominent New York Times columnist and the author of Hatching Twitter, shared the best career advice he ever received in a tweet: «Imagine you in your dream job in 5 years, then work backwards figuring out how you got there.»

Your startup may have the coolest technology in the world, but without people who believe in your product and service, who are willing to work for you, to buy from you, to do business with you month after month and year after year, then that $ 1 million number will be what it is for the majority of startups out there: only a dream.

As well, points out Jurock, the recreational and retirement property boom of a few years ago was «driven by Dad,» whose investing prowess during the stock market run - up put him in a position not only to buy that retirement dream home but to front the kids a down payment for their own place.

Host Amanda Boleyn went through a similar journey when she quit a corporate job five years ago, and now, she's devoted much of her time to telling stories that will inspire others to stop thinking about their dreams and start chasing them.

«My fondest dream,» he wrote in one recent commentary, «is that I will give my gold coins to my great - great grandkids some 70 - 80 years from now, and they will be rather embarrassed that their Papa John bought all that much of that barbarous yellow metal instead of more biotech stocks.

If you're a 45 - year - old founder with a dream of retiring at 55, don't be embarrassed to reveal that in your business plan.

Armir Harris came to the U.S. as a political refugee, but under the wing of his uncle, who immigrated two years later, he acquired the tools to shape his own American dream.

Parton told CNBC that she has been dreaming of having her own hotel for years, and the opening of the DreamMore resort on Monday forms part of the group's plans, announced in 2013, to invest $ 300 million in the complex over the next 10 years.

In a little less than two years, Halo Top's relentless sales growth has afforded the founders something most entrepreneurs only dream of: They run a profitable company, at scale.

His four years at the white - shoe law firm Latham & Watkins had crushed the notion that his career would ever measure up to his childhood dreams of strutting across a courtroom like the lead attorney in a John Grisham novel.

And while the teen years are often filled with aspirations and dreams, 54 percent of the respondents said they do not believe they will achieve millionaire status in their lifetime, perhaps an indication of a realistic perspective.

Penot had been busy creating big - budget blockbusters during a six - year stint as a perfume developer at Armani Fragrances, and Le Labo was his chance to make the indie label of his dreams.

«I've always dreamed of Glossier being not a makeup line or a skincare range but a beauty company, and I think this is the year that we really started to grow into that destiny.»

As nine men in pursuit of their dreams took the field, like Nico, I too, became six - years - old.

Think about one thing you dreamed of doing five or 10 years ago but didn't work to do... and think about how good you'd be today at that one thing if you had.

«It's kind of surreal: I spent years in bed dreaming about walking in the woods and walking on the beach and putting a golf ball, never believing it would happen,» Reynolds, now 45, says.

When Donald Trump bought the historic Turnberry golf course in Scotland last year for a reported $ 60 million, it was with dreams of hosting the British Open there.

Forget the dreams of selling out to a big brewery in three years.

He had dreamed of being a US Marine his whole life, and he enlisted in 1959 at just 17 years old.

As for his dreams of starting a company, Fiance realizes now after a year of fundraising that he wants the House Fund to harken back to the old days of venture capital when the emphasis was less on the capital.