Sentences with phrase «of little success»

After that came ten years labouring as a parish priest of Prouille, a period of little success in gaining converts from Catharism, although he founded a small community of nuns who wanted to remain Catholic while living a life of comparable simplicity as they would have had as Cathars.

Not exact matches

Rather than judge Canada's success on abstract measures, which have little meaning to average folk — GDP, productivity, trade balances — Trudeau's candidacy is built on a pragmatic mantra: «A strong economy is the one that provides the largest number of good jobs for the largest number of Canadians.»

Mobile ecommerce poses another set of challenges to success which leaves online merchants little choice but to continue adapting.

It's fairly typical that your customers, competitors and industry will take note of your final «instant success» and marvel at how easy you made it look, and give little consideration for the bumps, bruises and cold nights on a mountain ledge you may have suffered along the way.

And she wanted to invest in a segment of founders with little proven success.

Since starting my podcast a little over a year ago, I've had the pleasure of interviewing some pretty brilliant people about business, money and the idea of success.

Still, it's a little sad that increasingly low odds of success and the growing cost of DRTV are shutting off infomercials to anyone other than the leading DRTV marketers and major brands.

Entrepreneurs understand that visibility of a business is key to success, and when you can garner that visibility with little effort or expense, even better.

But little daily habits can also make a big difference in a person's level of success in business and life.

No one reaches success without a little — or a lot — of help from others.

With little success to toast on the field or at the ballot box for that pair in recent years, it's not surprising that champagne consumption is on the low end of our list.

So yeah: He knows a little about launching successful businesses, achieving success in a variety of pursuits... and about taking risks and starting all over again.

That doesn't guarantee the simplest form of success, but it does raise the question of whether doubters are laughing a little too early.

«No matter the size of the company you're talking to, you're ultimately connecting with a single person, who, like most people, probably likes things such as proof of success, kindness, a little sense of humor and not working with jerks.

South Korea's success in 2012 tops off years of incredible growth and gives every Korean the right to show off a little — in true Gangnam style.

«Knowledge, ability, experience are of little avail in reaching high success if courtesy is lacking.

If the company's goal is to get every Canadian to adopt a more active lifestyle, then it should come as little to no surprise that GoodLife's success has largely been built on the back of avoiding the intimidating gym cliché of Mr. Universe wannabes pumping iron, in favour of a more open, welcoming environment.

Kottke admits that «since Jobs died, I've been pushing a little less hard» toward a definition of success that involves insane working hours.

His memoir, My Grandfather's Son, you may recall, was a bitter, intemperate affair, a story of a man whose remarkable professional success had done little to temper the anger he clearly still feels toward many people, in and out of Washington, whose paths he crossed.

; effort (was success achieved with the amount of effort - or, ideally, a little less than expected?)

This success has done little to satiate the appetite of Roger Hardy, Coastal's CEO.

Being busy is often seen as a sign of importance and success, after all, so if you're driven, admitting that busyness is just not you can take a little bit of soul searching.

The underground market has enjoyed little in terms of marketing, except word - of - mouth, a testimony to the success of that marketing tradition.

«After seeing how much success we could bring other people and after learning a little bit more about the backend of the restaurant industry, we realised we could pull it off ourselves,» he writes.

Ad tech firms are out of favor these days - too many players, too many unmet promises, too little transparency, too few successes, and too much money for nothing much to talk about in the way of results.

Sure, I achieved a little bit of success when I put my head down and hustled.

He has an internal locus of control, as he saw how the littlest actions moved his company closer to success.

The reason Keynesianism got such a boost post-crisis was not for any real - world examples of its success — the list of its failures, by contrast, is lengthy — but because of the assertion, accepted far too quickly with far too little evidence, that monetary policy, at the fabled Zero Lower Bound (interest rates of near zero) had lost its effectiveness.

It was one of the rare CEO transitions in Silicon Valley that came with little drama and turned out to be a success.

If you are new to momentum swing trading, or have had little success in the past, it is a great idea to get in the habit of planning your trades and trading your plan.

«We may have a little bit of short - term pain, but we're certainly going to have long - term success,» White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters.

This 236 - page book, published this year by John Wiley & Sons, demonstrates that Green values, strong ethics, and a cooperative philosophy are cornerstones of success, and provides a roadmap on how to not only run your business in alignment with these values, but how to creatively harness the marketing advantages of that stanceoften in ways that cost little or nothing to implement.

Many of those efforts have met with little success so far.

Using the relationships you already have (and easily developing powerful new relationships), you can create strategic partnerships that bring you directly in front of new key audiences, at little or no cost — even competitors can be part of your success!

Given the success of its campaign to interfere in the 2016 election, there's little doubt that Russia will try its hand at swaying elections in 2018 and beyond.

I will definitely agree with you that erring on the conservative side is much better than using starry - eyed numbers with little chance of real success.

«You can't always rely on new products to drive growth and you can't always rely on value menus to drive growth, but by doing both I think you're creating a little bit more of a higher likelihood of success.»

Perhaps the biggest takeaway, though, is this: not only is there a lot of success to be had in starting a cleaning business, there's also very little stopping you from achieving it.

The success of the new phone did little to mollify investors who were anticipating far better sales of the older phone and were used to Apple's long - standing habit of blowing past Wall Street's expectations.

Using the relationships you already have, you can create powerful partnerships that bring you directly in front of new and key audiences, at little or no cost — even competitors can be part of your success!

With the right mindset, tools, process, and a little practice, any entrepreneur can lead their startup to new levels of innovation, competitiveness, and success.

The ultimate success or failure of Daniels's suit also has little bearing on the case's potential to damage Trump's presidency.

A Wall Streeter who has known Loeb since his early days in New York describes how Loeb climbed to the pinnacle of hedge - fund success: He started out «a little bit like J.P. — John Paulson [founder and president of the hedge fund Paulson & Co.].

If you have little to no business experience, then your chances of success by starting a business from scratch or taking over an existing business that is up for sale are somewhat slim.

I've scratched that itch in the past with a little bit of success and have always maintained my day job.

Whether you've got your sights set on running a global empire or you just want to make a little more cash each month, there are plenty of ways to emulate the rich and famous so that you can attract the same kind of success.

«We did see a little slow down but I think it shows the success of small brewers in recent years and that we can question whether double - digit growth is a good thing or a bad thing,» he added.

It can be tricky to put a price tag on biotechnology companies that offer little more than the promise of success in the future.

In order to meet long term success here, you need to have a viable method of identifying profitable trades and a good money management system to make sure you are never risking too much at any one time or risking too little for the trade to be worthwhile.

The fact that you can operate your bitcoin exchange and trading business from your home does not mean that locations have little influence on the success of a bitcoin exchange and trading company.