Sentences with phrase «own assumptions»

«With our daughters, I never raised them how I was raised [with the assumption they'd join the family business,]» says Oddo, who has written a book on the principles of parenting.

If you like the principle of Occam's Razor, that among competing ideas, those with the fewest assumptions should be selected, you can get rid of the one - dimensional model.

Forward - looking statements are based on management's current plans, estimates, assumptions and projections, and speak only as of the date they are made.

It would be unfortunate if this were the case, as this data is reported on with the assumption it is reliable and local policy makers and economic development agencies use the data when making policy.

The GOP acknowledges that the «static» impact of the tax bill — the addition to the debt with no economic - growth assumptions — will be just under $ 1.5 trillion.

Unfortunately, the assumption I tend to attach to his busy - ness is that he's annoyed with my interruption and has no desire to speak with me.

Once my faulty assumptions were demolished I was able to use the role change as an opportunity to build my interpersonal skills.

The second assumption was that customers who were taking the most medications — sometimes 10 or 15 a month — would be most willing to pay for PillPack, because the convenience would mean the most to them.

Again, it's worth checking those assumptions, as they simply may not be accurate.

The assumption now is for three increases next year; a «very tiny» shift, said Fed chair Janet Yellen.

But there's no such assumption with Facebook because it denies that it is a media entity or that it has any duty to inform.

We can not assure you that any of our expectations, estimates or assumptions will be achieved.

All too often people in management roles take things personally and make assumptions about the intentions of the people they are responsible for managing or servicing.

Wrong in his overall gender assumptions, but right in one very critical way: Most people just want you to listen to them.

There's an assumption when reading a newspaper that the editors in charge are interested in informing people about what's happening in the world, even if that information is disturbing or offensive to some.

M&A: Health insurer Cigna Corp. plans to buy Express Scripts Holding Co. in a cash - and - stock deal worth $ 67 billion (includes the assumption of $ 15 billion in debt).

The monthly fee, says Parker, was based on two assumptions that didn't turn out to be true.

In this way the assumption of the primacy of efficient markets takes on the air of natural law, when in fact it is illustrating choices.

But our minds aren't perfect, and often we make assumptions without a valid basis.

CLV is often tricky to calculate and does involve making a few assumptions, at least during the startup phase.

And while the iMirror is the kind of product that feeds directly into consumers» current assumptions of what IoT technology looks like, there are plenty of Canadian companies finding business applications that consumers will hardly notice.

Cracks have since appeared in both assumptions, however.

While we believe the assumptions or bases underlying our expectations are reasonable and make them in good faith, they almost always vary from actual results, sometimes materially.

The biggest problem with most claims of customer - centricity is that they are largely based on assumptions.

A new analysis from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, however, suggests Mnuchin's assumptions are significantly off.

McClure's challenge is forcing me to reconsider that assumption.

All forward - looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward - looking statements.

The energy industry disputes this assumption, as methane rates have consistently declined over the last 20 years and shows no change.

But the central bank will still be watching prices closely to check that its assumptions are correct.

These statements are based on current estimates and assumptions made by us in light of our experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that we believe are appropriate and reasonable under the circumstances, but there can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct.

The decline is attributable, in large part, to slow growth in pension values — tweaks to assumptions about interest rate and life spans had inflated them the prior year — and underwhelming corporate performance.

This could undermine the assumptions of OPEC and allies that strong demand growth in the short term would help the cartel to achieve its mission to bring inventories down to normal levels.

Such statements are based on management's current views and assumptions that could ultimately prove inaccurate and are subject to risk factors such as (but not limited to) changes in raw materials prices, currency fluctuations, the pace at which cost - reduction projects are implemented and changes in general economic and financial conditions.

In my view, implicit in both of my colleague's scenarios are two assumptions: One, that Victoria's Secret maintains maximum profit; and two, that its customers pay as low a price as possible for lingerie.

There's an assumption on the part of many that the company's millennial user base isn't interested in news, and yet studies show that the demand for news - related content is higher than it has ever been.

The agreements — don't gossip, don't take things personally, don't make assumptions, and do your best — help me start from a rational position of trying to understand the issue at hand, without bringing any negative mental baggage that may come along naturally if I weren't aware of them.

Oil at $ 80 could also slow down global oil demand growth, undermining one of the cartel and friends» key assumptions: that robust demand growth will absorb the non-OPEC supply and that demand growth will continue to be strong going forward.

The next step is to do a «gut check,» Hamrick said, of the assumptions used in the calculations.

Both are drastically new politicians: Strikingly young, they have shattered not only the age floor, but the hidebound rules and assumptions to which previous generations have clung for decades.

Also, by not making assumptions we put ourselves in a position where we are genuinely open to hearing what people have to say and not action under the delusion that we know what others are thinking.

I always made the incorrect assumption that floor work was easy, but if my thighs proved one thing the next day, it was that these exercises were actually pretty major.

Another big part of why Musk, Einstein and Jobs were able to be such original thinkers is because they had a sense of «separateness» — a feeling of being different or disconnected from the crowd, which freed them to reject the conventional wisdom and assumptions that constrained others.

Those assumptions are now being put to the test.

«I think the assumption is we were trying to create a game machine and a tablet and really what we were trying to do was create a game system that gave you tablet - like functionality for controlling that system and give you two screens that would allow different people in the living room to play in different ways.

The two biggest concepts in the book are not taking things personally and not making assumptions.

Since becoming a teacher, I have heard many false assumptions from people outside of the field of education.

The compensation outlined is «based on multiple assumptions that may or may not actually occur or be accurate on the relevant date,» and is therefore subject to change, according to the proxy statement.

This requires the heroic assumption that it's not the absolute level of your income that affects your lifespan, but rather the relative distance between your income and those at the top of the food chain.

Companies that are fairly well established in one market can make the mistake of transferring assumptions from the home market to a newly formed division.

«The reason for this pushback lies in many of the unconscious assumptions we all hold about women and men,» Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and the founder of Lean In, wrote for The Wall Street Journal.