Sentences with phrase «people said the book»

What's been surprising has been how emotional the positive response has been... tears, long letters of gratitude, many people saying this book is helping them stay Christian, or stay in ministry, and so on.

So, I looked at everything I could (like when people said they booked flights I check a couple of airlines to see if there were flights from A to B) If you asked me to prove they were fake I would also take that challenge.

Not exact matches

«People I've talked to who have looked at the books — to the extent you can — of the state - owned enterprises and estimated what would be their profit margin if they had to pay market rates for their inputs is that a lot of them would go bankrupt or they would be far less profitable,» Dobson says.

«People read each other's intent as soon as they see each other,» says Nick Morgan, speech coach and author of new book «Power Cues: The Subtle Science of Leading Groups, Persuading Others, and Maximizing Your Personal Impact.»

The book shows «how we could cut emissions by up to 50 percent without asking people to make big sacrifices,» Gates says, and he even claims it's a relatively light read.

«The anniversary has already opened old wounds for Camilla, people are being reminded of the fact that she was instrumental in ending this marriage that was described as a fairy tale,» said Morton, who has released a revised version of his book to mark 25 years since its release.

Adam Braun, founder of Pencils of Promise, described in his book, The Promise of a Pencil, what it feels like when business people appear to lose interest in him after he says he has a non-profit.

Charlie «Tremendous» Jones, a business leader and motivational speaker, once said «You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.»

He stopped publicly criticizing the central bank while in office, this person said, but was back at it in 2005, with his book, «Successes and Failures of Fiscal and Monetary Policy.»

«The premise of the book is that people everywhere have a wisdom of their own and the book is there to guide them to their own wisdom,» Nepo said.

Few days go by without at least one person saying to me, «I'm going to write a book one day.»

Now, I'm not saying you become self - absorbed and narcissistic when you write a book, but people are going to ask you about it.

«My brain ended up deciding that instead of trying to avenge my son's life, I wanted to give life as a result,» says Gawdat, who published his book Solve for Happy in January of this year and has given several talks on the subject through a campaign he launched to make 10 million people happy.

«I love books about people coming into their vocations, and this haunting memoir by musician Patti Smith brilliantly evokes a time and place in New York City, as she and Robert Mapplethorpe began to build artistic lives for themselves,» says Rubin of this one.

As Umpqua Bank CEO Ray Davis said in his book Leading Through Uncertainty, «I always tell our people that they're entitled to get answers to every question they have.

«For many people, I think their first impulse is to have an event,» says Joan Schneider, president and creative director of Boston public relations and marketing communications firm Schneider Associates, and author of the book «The New Launch Plan: 152 Tips, Tactics, and Trends from the Most Memorable New Products.

«The AHCA takes the opposite approach, so that old and poor people will drop their coverage,» says Matthew Fiedler, an economist at the Bookings Institution.

The other issue that faces all companies is, as you get to a large enough size, there are people whose job it is to protect business lines — they're just doing their job — but this is the classic case of «The Innovator's Dilemma,» the famous business book, which says that when companies ultimately fail, whether it's Polaroid or whoever, it's not because they were big and dumb; it's because they were actually really smart.

There are quite a few people out there who've said that A.I. is an existential threat: Stephen Hawking, astronomer Royal Martin Rees, who has written a book about it, and they share a common thread, in that: they don't work in A.I. themselves.

If people repeatedly come to you with requests in areas where you don't feel adequately qualified to help, having a few stock resources, such as books or articles, to point them to can ease the pain of saying no, Grant suggests.

As Peter Thiel said in his book Zero to One, «It's hard to blame people for dancing when the music [is] playing.»

«Generally people are booking early, because they know they have a set window to travel,» Sherman said.

«There's this attachment people have to books that we were trying to tap into,» Buckley says.

Free your mind Don't be afraid to give your product away, Chris Anderson says, you'll figure out how to make money later The secret to success in the digital age is giving people what they want — literally, says Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired and author of the controversial new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price.

«Many people automatically book round - trip fares for vacations, but if you aren't sure about your itinerary and you're using points, you should absolutely consider booking a one - way ticket,» said Sean McQuay, NerdWallet's credit card and banking expert.

Dennis Cowhey, author of the book What Does It Mean — The Personal Stories Behind Vanity License Plates, says business people have used all sorts of creative combinations of numerals and letters to let the world know what they do.

As Evernote CEO Phil Libin said via Ryan's book, «People [who are] thinking about things other than making the best product never make the best product.»

Sinek, best known for his book, Start With Why, said that current consumer - minded business models that prioritize the needs of customers over people within the organization are outdated, having first been adapted in the 80s and 90s.

«In one hour, three people booked appointments,» he said.

Longo also created a company that sells the meals people consume while on the fasting portion of the diet, though he says 100 % of his shares in that company and all profits from the book go to a non-profit foundation he created that's dedicated toward research on treating and preventing disease.

«He has to do some digging to find out who the contact person would be at those companies,» says Sherman, author of Raising Capital (Kiplinger Books).

In his book 6 Secrets of Startup Success, Bradberry puts forward five steps that he says will help a person prepare to start a company.

In his new book, «David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants,» Malcolm Gladwell says most people get this famous Biblical yarn all wrong because they misunderstand who really has the upper hand.

«Open - book management has bettered me as a person,» he says frankly.

Kirkpatrick, who wrote the book on Facebook, said Zuckerberg's true genius is understanding how, in a new age, people and computers can interact.

«If you're trying to create a high - trust organization, an organization where people are all - for - one and one - for - all, you can't have secrets,» he says in the book.

Now back at Breitbart, Bannon is quoted in the book as saying that if such a meeting needed to take place, Trump Jr. and Kushner should have set it up «in a Holiday Inn in Manchester, New Hampshire, with your lawyers who meet with these people,» according to The Guardian.

How I Did It,» bestselling author Tim Ferriss said that nearly all of the 140 successful people he included in his latest book, «Tribe of Mentors,» had some sort of mindfulness or meditation habit.

«In 1934 a company's book value and its market value were highly related, because that's how people thought about valuation,» he says.

«People come in for something to drink and say, «Oh, books!»

«For people who are trying to figure out career decisions, there's a very interesting one,» Ng says of this book.

«These people write books saying if you just cut out a cup of coffee a day and invest it in the stock market, you can make millions over the years.

Head of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, says in his book, Work Rules!

This, the company says, usually results in anywhere from 3,000 to 10,000 people downloading the book in a short period of time, thereby catapulting it to a high ranking.

Something that really hit home for me in the book is you said something like, «Personal finance writers believe that if people would just listen carefully to our advice, everything would be fine.»

Traditional publishing is a slog — find an agent, pitch a book and if it's picked up by a publisher, sign away the rights to your work, then spend years doing edits and waiting for the book to slot into a publishing schedule — and the majority of these people don't score a deal, because most entrepreneurs «aren't in a position to be commercially published,» says Sattersten.

«The gatekeepers can no longer stop people from getting their voices heard, whether they're black, Hispanic, women or disenfranchised,» says JT McCormick, CEO of one of the industry's biggest new players, a company called Book in a Box.

«People don't forget it — and you see these people every day,» said career and workplace expert Dan Schawbel, author of the forthcoming book «Back to Human.&People don't forget it — and you see these people every day,» said career and workplace expert Dan Schawbel, author of the forthcoming book «Back to Human.&people every day,» said career and workplace expert Dan Schawbel, author of the forthcoming book «Back to Human.»

In his new book, The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us, American psychology professor James Pennebaker explains how he can gauge what people feel and think — even if they're lying — just by counting pronouns.

My favorite example of what I'm saying is my client Steve Siebold's book, «Die Fat or Get Tough: 101 Differences in Thinking Between Fat People and Fit People.»