Sentences with phrase «on old thinking»

And we were basing our premises on old thinking.

Not exact matches

«I don't think you'll ever see us return to the Old MacDonald farm with pigs and chickens and cows like I grew up on,» Gerry Ritz, the new federal minister of agriculture once said.

You also want to take that drubbing now so that you avoid it later on (when your ego takes more of a bruising, when the thought of an 80 - hour workweek and simultaneous childcare makes your stomach turn, or when you think you're simply too old to take that kind of treatment from someone else).

'' [I keep] to - dos, ideas, and trains of thought on old - school index cards.

This was required reading in my family, and I think perhaps the only book all of us kids (meaning my older brother) agreed on being essential.

«Everybody has story about buying on a Tuesday, and I think maybe in the old days that used to be the case,» he laughed.

There's an old Haitian expression that translates roughly to: «beyond the mountains, more mountains,» which I think should be the everyday motto of all good entrepreneurs because it's a spot - on description of the basic fact of life in a startup.

The Milkens Institute, a think tank comprised of economists around the US, recently compiled a report on the best cities for growing old.

«As soon as you say that, you think it's a bunch of old people sitting on couches watching TV.

In an interview on The David Rubenstein Show: Peer - to - Peer Conversations, the 63 - year - old TV host said that in the past, she never thought running for president was a possibility.

«This explains why we think that time speeds up when we grow older,» Eagleman said - why childhood summers seem to go on forever, while old age slips by while we're dozing.

It's said that youth is wasted on the young, and I think a lot of the bashing millennials get is jealousy from those grown old who are seeing the best years behind them, while looking down the loaded barrels of living in an old folks home and learning to love BINGO.

In 2006, a 13 - year - old girl committed suicide after being harassed repeatedly on MySpace by someone she thought was an 18 - year - old boy.

Speaking at Fortune's CEO Initiative conference, Loree explains that as he prepared to take on the new job of CEO in 2016, he thought that the 175 - year - old company was «missing something.»

Teams are encouraged to focus on passion related projects and think of Microsoft not as a 42 - year - old company but as a challenger organization with Day 1 in its DNA.

How much quality time do you have for deep thinking, getting important tasks done, developing new ideas and building on old ones?

Walk into a store — old - school hip - hop playing softly, like Muzak for millennials — and you'll find customers leafing through Oak Street, the company's in - house magazine (a recent issue features an editorial by Ethan Song that quotes Steve Jobs's thoughts on the intersection of technology and the liberal arts).

Everybody thinks it's old school; nobody focuses on it anymore, which provides more opportunity for those of us who do.

Virgin America has just turned six years old, and over that time we've put a lot of thought and effort into making flights enjoyable, while almost all of our competitors have focused solely on their bottom line.

Business Insider reported on a survey in which 69 % of people 18 to 34 years old said they thought they learned more from technology than from people, compared with 50 % of people older than 45 who said the same.

«If I had a completely different kind of career, I would either be a researcher in a non-profit think tank focused on women's issues or I would (try to) make money by renovating and flipping old homes.»

It's a concept called «reverse mentoring» — pairing older workers with younger ones to educate one another on how business work and new ways of thinking can improve them.

The girl, who officers had initially thought was about 10 years old, contacted the police on Sunday after escaping.

Hobson, the 44 - year - old president of Chicago - based Ariel Investments, is now DreamWorks» nonexecutive chairman and also on the boards of Starbucks (SBUX), Estée Laude (EL) r, and Groupo (GRPN) n. She's a valuable adviser, the 62 - year - old Katzenberg explains, because she simplifies complex problems, always thinks long term, and asks questions in an unthreatening way.

«On this incredibly humbling day, I think of the 12 - year - old boy with a dream of being a reporter and seeing the world.

«I remember thinking I don't want to be a 60 - year - old turning on the camera and being like, «Hey guys, today I'm wearing this lipstick!»»

There's the Chicago based Domino's franchisee who sends personalized videos (think Old Spice Guy, but less naked) to people who tweet both praise and complaints about his pizzas, getting him praise on 87,000 Web sites and fierce loyalty from his customers.

I think you're on the right track, but still caught up in the old school way of «how things are done».

Way too many 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 year olds who follow me on Instagram think that their first job during college, or out of college, or as they're coming up, is to learn how to raise capital.

Adam Seifer, co-founder and former CEO of Fotolog.com, one of the oldest and most popular photo sharing sites on the net, said: «I frequently find myself trying to convince partners, advisees, etc., that one of the biggest risks a start - up has is to not launch anything at all — to get so caught up in talking about what you're going to launch and so fixated on details that it feels like you're making progress when instead what you're really doing is moving asymptotically closer to something that doesn't ultimately matter as much as you think it does.»

I think I will read the other two articles on the Roth, but I am not sure if you touched upon the fact that one can also take up to $ 10K in gains for a first - time home (no tax penalty) and there is also no tax penalty for withdrawals so long as the account is 5 years old.

Dorsey's out - of - the - box thinking also applies to his management style: At the company's San Francisco headquarters, the 36 - year - old CEO can often be found working on his iPad at one of the company's «open collaboration» tables.

«People don't know the job, and they think we are the train guys,» said Mr. Sitton, an elected commissioner on the state's oldest regulatory agency, created in...

A Chinese gambit to assume that Chinese robots will be allowed to replace other robots, or that companies taxed on dollar assets held abroad, or financial flows, or what have you, is a marginal movement of thought to merely another corner of the same old old box.

Rooted in a personal development regiment since 4 years old and based on Napoleon Hill and Dr. Dennis Kimbro's Think and Grow Rich book models, Ian is currently conducting interviews with highly successful people from various industries to be included in his upcoming book on success for kids (written by a kid) entitled, Dream Hustle Code.

Way back in the 1990s when Web marketing and PR was in its infancy, I ignored the old rules, drawing instead on my experience working at publishing companies, and created thought leadership strategies to reach buyers directly on the Web.

And whereas some psychologists find that high scores on certain cognitive tests correlate in older people with the ability to keep their spirits up, other researchers hypothesize that happiness in later life is an effect of cognitive losses — which force older people to concentrate on simpler, happier thoughts.

This time he thinks the Tories can be convinced to make changes, in addition to not increasing the annual contribution limit, like setting a lifetime limit on holdings that would be tax - free and making sure withdrawals count against income - tested programs like old age security and guaranteed income supplement.

In an article published on its website last Friday, the century - old think tank cautioned that «there exists a very real danger that the petro will not only fail to cure Venezuela's economic woes but will also weaken the integrity of cryptocurrencies writ - large.»

Perhaps someday there will even be a mention of «fixed income» on the site, perish the thought, and its attendant 47.5 + year old menagerie.

CHARLIE MUNGER: Well, when you start to think about it, business quality usually counts on something more than whether you crossed the T in some old lease or something and the human quality of the management who are going to stay are very important.

I think Buffett just doesn't have as much patience in his old age (or he's releasing the leash on his henchmen a little).

I thought that Brian Jean was flat and came up with the same old stuff right - wing Fraser Institute drivel on the wonders of tax cuts that we have heard before.

For all of us on the right, it should have been a lightbulb moment on Friday, when David Hogg, the 17 - year - old student - turned - gun - control - activist, said to CNN's Alisyn Camerota, «I think it's great that corporate America is standing with me and the rest of my friends.»

Charles: Right, I think that's a huge demographic question that I haven't seen any really good statistics on because of course most of the boomers are still in their late 50s or 60s, early 70s and they're not yet to the point where the older generation like the boomer parents, the so - called silent generation, which has sold their houses or given them to their offspring, their adult children.

Their focus on rental units is very important, especially for those 25 - 34 years old, but some thought should also be given to making supply which makes homeownership more feasible for residents of our region.

Not only was I able to brush up again on some age old wisdom, but some thoroughly fascinating ideas were imbibed which gave food for thought to munch on later.

I quite often treat this blog like a diary, so sometimes I'll stray away from talking about my personal finance and share my current thoughts, I'll be excited to go back and read some old post when the years go by, and it will help me reflect on the overall journey that has been experienced, because as great as the end goal of early retirement is, I would imagine the character developed through such a process has more then just monetary value.

Given the pronounced investment orientation of the group, one might think that «market volatility» might top the list of retirement portfolio risks that are on the minds of older clients.

I have a 3 - year - old son, and one on the way, and I don't want them to grow up thinking they are incapable of controlling their sexuality.