Childhood friends and teenage sweethearts, Jing - nan and Huang Zheng - lian - Johnny and Julia - shared a dream
of achieving success by leaving Taiwan to attend top American colleges and secure good jobs, then marrying, leaving their shabby market rat existence behind.
Not exact matches
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability
of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to
achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost
of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates
of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates
of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect
of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result
of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect
of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the
success and timely execution
of key milestones such as the receipt
of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation
of our announced acquisition
of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability
of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk
of nonpayment
by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production
of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders
by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts
of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak
of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact
of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition
of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect
of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect
of changes in tax law, such as the effect
of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations
of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect
of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability
of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass
of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many
of our employees; 24) spending
by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment
of interest on, and principal
of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness
of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness
of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact
of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition
of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result
of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks
of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions
of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
That doesn't mean you can't keep your pedal pushed firmly to the metal as you drive full - throttle towards
success... but it does mean you may want to change how you approach
achieving all
of your goals, even if just
by tiny degrees.
Covenant House New York is not only respected for providing loving care and vital services to homeless and abandoned youths, they also help transform the lives
of these young kids
by setting them on a path towards
achieving success.
Other companies, like GoPro and online dating platform, Plenty
of Fish, have also
achieved enormous
success by bootstrapping before rushing to Sand Hill Road with a pitchdeck.
Another important principle, articulated
by Michael Armstrong in his book A Handbook
of Human Resource Management, is that business
success «is most likely to be
achieved if the personnel policies and procedures
of the enterprise are closely linked with, and make a major contribution to, the achievement
of corporate objectives and strategic plans.»
By understanding the relationships between each
of these things, a person can easily
achieve success.
But given the crop
of newcomers like China's Xiaomi and India's Micromax, it may not be possible for Nokia to reproduce even the minor
successes that Philips and Alcatel were able to
achieve by renting out their brand.
By gaining a better understanding
of how successful entrepreneurs
achieved their
success, I will be better equipped to succeed in my own future endeavors.
By knowing what to improve and how to improve it, I've been able to
achieve greater
success than have my peers in other areas
of life, too.
A company is defined
by its reputation and the team leaders who quarterback other members to
achieve the overall
success of the company.
Innovation is not
achieved by imitating the
success of others.
The key finding
of the new research is that the intoxicated participants solved more items on the Remote Associates Test compared with the control participants (they solved 58 %
of 15 items on average vs. 42 % average
success achieved by controls), and they tended to solve the items more quickly (11.54 seconds per item vs. 15.24 seconds).
They
achieved success by going out
of their way to make something happen.
Separate from creating products that simply work, startups
achieve virality and real
success by catering to potential users
of the product first through creating an appeal or purpose that people can align and relate to or an idea they believe in and will want to share with everyone in their circle
of influence.
By becoming one
of his 6.7 million LinkedIn followers, you can benefit from his posts about leadership and
achieving success.
Lynn Taylor, a national workplace expert and the author
of «Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant: How to Manage Childish Boss Behavior and Thrive in Your Job,» says you don't have to be best friends with your manager, «but you can
achieve optimal creativity and
success if you feel that you're liked, supported, and respected
by them.»
Now that Singapore has
achieved such enormous material
success, Lee says that he is appalled
by the lack
of books, culture, and social graces among citizens.
According to a recent report
by Harvard Business Review, 71 percent
of respondents ranked employee engagement as very important to
achieving overall organizational
success, yet only 24 percent
of respondents said employees in their organizations are highly engaged.
«When it comes to the
success of female - led campaigns (
success is measured
by way
of them meeting their funding target) we see Denmark, Ireland and New Zealand come out jointly on top with female
success rates
of 33 % Sweden and the UK come next with a
success rate
of 26 %, while for the US and France female - led campaigns rank joint third for
success with 24 %
of female - led campaigns
achieving success compared with 20 %
of male - led campaigns in the US.
They show, on every page, that not only is it possible to succeed
by appealing to the good side
of human nature, but that the resulting
success is easier to
achieve and more satisfying, far outdistancing the outcome
of «take - the - money - and - run» approaches.
by James Whittaker, author
of «Think and Grow Rich The Legacy: How the World's Leading Entrepreneurs, Thought Leaders, & Cultural Icons
Achieve Success ``
Define
success and commit to a set
of clear, ambitious national EV adoption targets that increase over time, backed
by a policy framework to
achieve them.
It's like all
of us sitting down together in my office for a business meeting, where you can look over our shoulders as we show you the EXACT, step -
by - step, systematic approaches we use in our own businesses every day to
achieve outrageous
success using social media to bring in the big bucks!
Leading companies including Apple, GE, Google, IBM and McKinsey have
achieved success by expanding design capabilities and applying the methods
of designers not only to their products and but also to their organizations» structure and culture.
«We love to talk about the over-the-top work cultures, fancy catered lunches, yoga classes, paid sabbaticals, work from home and open bars that so many
of the tech titans provide, but what isn't talked about is the work ethic required
by their founders to
achieve the level
of success that afforded those very amenities to be possible today.»
Commonwealth Care Alliance, Libertana Home Health and Northwell Health are pioneering the use
of ambient listening voice assistants in healthcare, and they all have so far
achieved success with the technology as measured
by patient satisfaction.
Jed McCaleb, co-founder
of Ripple and Stellar, as well as the Creator
of the exchange Mt. Gox, said that kryptowaluty and Blockchain technology needs to remain decentralized in order to
achieve success in the future, as reported
by CNBC.
Unfortunately, the leaders
of the large contingency
of the «It Won't Happen to Me» crowd often
achieve great
success in marginalizing and discrediting the small subset
of the population that constitute the «It Might Happen to Me» crowd
by disdainfully calling the realists «conspiracy theorists» and «paranoid fear mongers» even when the facts support the preparatory financial behaviors executed
by the «It Might Happen to Me» crowd.
The author
of The Happiness Advantage and CEO
of Good Think Inc., a research and consulting firm, points out that the common understanding that happiness as the last thing to happen after
success achieved by working hard has the order all wrong.
Success is ultimately measured
by the quality and quantity
of message exposure, and a toolset is required to
achieve that goal: press releases, FAQs, bios, links to coverage, etc..
The expansion
of the market will be followed
by a boom
of cannabis related businesses that will require distribution infrastructure to
achieve their
success.
As demonstrated
by the far - reaching
success and impact
of Chinese Internet companies — such as e-commerce giant Alibaba's record - breaking «11.11 Singles» Day» sales
of over US$ 17 billion, as well as the incredible saturation
of over 700 million active users
achieved by Tencent's messaging and social networking platform, Wechat, and its new mobile payment system, WePay, to name a couple — in many respects, China's mobile and digital infrastructure has surpassed the systems available in many economies, including those in Canada.
I believe in justice and fair play (though I don't know exactly how we
achieve them, other than
by continually trying against all possible odds
of success).
Lincoln, he believes, renewed the theory
of statecraft
by insisting that «ultimate moral questions did not admit
of relativistic interpretations,» while knowing at the same time that the attempt to right moral wrongs may have tragic consequences and almost certainly will not
achieve unqualified
success.
A measure
of the influence the Century had
achieved by the middle
of the 1920s was the
success which attended its support for the outlawing
of war.
Many
of the people in Minimalism had
achieved «
success»
by our cultural standards, but were left feeling disillusioned, anxious and depleted so they decided to live radically different than most Americans.
here is an example
of a couple
of hard working people, who now that they have
achieved a level
of success responded
by wanting to help others.
On the simplest level, they have
achieved much
of their recent
success by learning the current fashions for successful communication.
While work is necessary and we have the freedom the earn and enjoy the good fruits
of labor, hustle culture creates a system where overworking is necessary and essential for material
success and where the ultimate goal in life is to
achieve wealth and prosperity,
by any means necessary.
Success achieved by good means can be overlooked ethically, but success by means of evil poses pr
Success achieved by good means can be overlooked ethically, but
success by means of evil poses pr
success by means
of evil poses problems.
Bart Devos, the CEO
of AR Metallizing states: «This award identifies and celebrates that our company is
achieving success and breaking new grounds in the packaging industry
by fostering and promoting sustainable practices.
By the time he retired from football after the 1986 season, however, he already was
achieving success in the restaurant business after introducing University
of Alabama students to Buffalo wings in 1981 with the Wings & Things concept.
Sustainability surfaced in packaging vernacular in 2006, after publication
of «The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best - Run Companies Are
Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental
Success - and How You Can Too» by Andrew Savitz with Karl Weber, which Amazon.com describes as «the groundbreaking book that charts the rise of sustainability within the business world and shows how and why financial success increasingly goes hand in hand with social and environmental achievement.
Success - and How You Can Too»
by Andrew Savitz with Karl Weber, which Amazon.com describes as «the groundbreaking book that charts the rise
of sustainability within the business world and shows how and why financial
success increasingly goes hand in hand with social and environmental achievement.
success increasingly goes hand in hand with social and environmental achievement.»
HTW
success in exports is primarily due to the approved status it has been able to
achieve by meeting the stringent quality requirements
of major global brand owners like Nestle, Nutricia, Heinz, Abbott, Reckitt Benckiser etc and the low cost manufacturing base which India offers.
Hear Natalie Reid - Frost, State Director, QLD speak about how Efic can help new or experienced exporters, as well as businesses that are part
of an export supply chain,
by helping them to win business, grow internationally and
achieve export
success.
Clarke has accused the company
of «liquidating» brand Australia, damaging its reputation overseas and compromising the
success achieved by the industry.
«
Of all the SDGs, Target 12.3 is the only one to my knowledge that is being advocated
by a coalition like Champions 12.3 with leaders from every sector mobilizing action to
achieve success.
42 year old Lambert, who won the Champions League as a player with Borussia Dortmund and enjoyed eight years
of success at Celtic, may have felt that he had
achieved as much as he could with his East Anglian side and despite Aston Villa's recent struggles the Midlands side is considered
by many as a «Sleeping Giant» who could be awakened under the right management.
Perhaps
by 1980, if not sooner, artificial methods
of achieving success will have become as commonplace in a number
of other sports as they have in body building — society and athletes may have decided that whatever is available to facilitate
success should be used.