Sentences with phrase «own whim»

And a startup needs all the help it can get, so it's often impossible to say no to an angel's whims and desires.

The secret to Jolly Time's longevity has been its ability to continually evolve its brand and marketing as it keeps up with consumers» ever - changing snacking whims.

But it won't just be content produced on a whim.

Audiences are much more informed about their options than ever before — that means you, your services and products are at the whims of other consumers» opinions and reviews unless you take charge.

Your phone will be the remote control for your life, and you will have a myriad of products and services available to you at your whim in a completely transparent and digital way.»

When you're operating on a budget, you can't fulfill every whim, so part of the responsibility — and surely thrill — of owning a business is learning to set and then meet your clients» expectations.

What may end up to be far more difficult is trying to deal with the many unknowns around trade, tariffs and protectionism, all stemming from the whims of a capricious U.S. President.

Chief executive officer Michael Medline, like all the merchandisers who have held the top job before him, knows that Canadian Tire's fortunes rise and fall on the mercurial whims of Canada's weather.

That's the insider nickname for the solar energy industry, which — while surging — remains vulnerable to the whims of policy and trade.

Trump is notorious for getting into — and out of — real estate and business dealings at a whim.

After all, it can be easy for an entrepreneur to fall prey to the whims of a difficult market or to make a series of mistakes that eventually leads to failure.

That meant DSC's product was not just a commodity; it was also subject to the whims of its supplier.

A common tick of the Bad Boss is to select an office scapegoat on whom he or she can dump any built up frustration / anger / aggression at whim.

Now, you can buy a share of a big bullion reserve without the expense and risk of having to store it yourself, and sell it on a whim.

The team discovered that many customers loved the honor - based system that Howard's uses, but felt having to use cash or check made dropping by on a whim inconvenient.

Just as there are managements unwilling or enlightened enough to commission good designs, there are designers who are eager to accommodate their every whim.

In Virginia, at least, the credit market is atomized; its decisions are subject to the biases and whims that rule the lives of real men and women, to ambitions and institutional prerogatives that set the agenda at the office.

Britain deserves better than simply outsourcing our country's security and prosperity to the whims of the Trump White House.

Though the whims of Beijing continue to pose a threat, the popular narrative of Big Government may have overshadowed a more fundamental challenge to Apple's business.

«Ever fewer checks on executive power will leave the private sector vulnerable to political whims.»

You're driven by a purpose, as opposed to a whim?

Pinning global trade deals to the whims of a single minister is the opposite of what was promised.

So, don't do it on a whim.

The car reliably got me to wherever my teenage whims took me (mostly school and ballet class).

I signed up for the card on a whim during a spring break trip.

«This decision wasn't made on a whim,» Nest co-founder and chief executive Tony Fadell wrote in a separate blog post.

It's risky to depend on the whims of ISPs for your business model, Gupta said.

Anonymous Broadway insiders claim he's indulged the unrealistic whims of the musical's creative talent instead of reining them in as a producer should.

Rental markets in Toronto and Vancouver are extremely tight, units suitable for raising families in are highly coveted, and being subjected to the whims of a landlord can make for a precarious existence.

They obsess over the whims of the market, they get scared and they sell — the antithesis of the Lee - Chin system.

Before acting on a whim and moving 100 miles per hour, consult with your team, get feedback from employees, and do some research on whether the investment will be worth it.

But you should not build your customer service system on the premise that your organization will never question the whims of your clients.

In a 1942 issue of Vogue, a columnist wrote: «Weddings nowadays hang not on the bride's whim, but on the decision of the grooms commanding officer.

This resilience shown by the S&P 500, which just last week hit a series of new record highs, goes a long way towards disproving the notion that the stock market is trading at the whim of the tech industry.

But she applied on a whim to Facebook's FB University for Business program in 2015 after a recruiter visited her school.

«I applied on a complete whim — when my friend told me to do it I laughed because I thought there was no way they'd accept me,» one rising sophomore who recently completed a summer internship told us.

«This decision wasn't made on a whim — Google has been in the mix in some way or another for about three years of our almost four - year history,» Fadell explains in a blog post.

And while you may not necessarily want the ability to launch a nuclear weapon on a whim, there's a chance you can see the benefits to building your personal brand.

Like markets, media, and investors, The Pyrenees do not bend, however, to the passing whims of mere mortals.

«Restocking fees make sure that people aren't just returning the item on a whim,» says Solar, whose Boston business makes more than $ 1 million per year selling primarily home goods, consumer electronics and clothing on eBay.

Although the original JOBS Act passed with bipartisan support in 2012, this is an election year, and so the fate of the bill could be subject to political whims.

But let's say you're at least mildly intrigued about this notion of less expensive software that leaves you free of Microsoft's strategies and whims.

Switching gears comes from having learned reliable new information, not from self - serving whims.

Perhaps he misses the autonomy of not having to answer to the whims of Wall Street, but in response to a question during an analyst conference in New York yesterday, Michael Dell said that he has considered taking his eponymous computer company private.

While these days meals are often tailored to the whims of little ones, in the past whole families prepared the same food and ate it together.

On a whim, Xie traveled to Boston on a cool September evening to attend a networking dinner with fellow entrepreneurs.

In a letter published on the eve of Google's IPO, the company explained the phrase to mean its search results were «unbiased and objective,» not subject to influence by advertisers or the whims of Google's own engineers.

This incredibly simple system is an analog notation guide for using any notebook, even the $ 5 one you picked up on a whim from the grocery store because it had a cool cover, as your catch - all planner.

«It was very much a passion project that I just literally started on a whim,» he says.

I picked up this book on a whim based solely on its title and a quick scan of the back cover.