Sentences with phrase «point about most of»

Not every well, it seems, because he goes on to repeat the point about most of the Lib Dem manifesto promises being implemented.

Not exact matches

Teasdale points to a recent Harvard study which underscores the scale of the problem: People spend most of their time during conversations talking about their own viewpoints and tend to self - promote when meeting people for the first time.

They also report that social media is the second most likely way U.S. Millennials will learn about a new product (26 percent of respondents), just 3 percentage points behind TV advertising (29 percent).

Case in point: Birch Coffee's «ignition initiative» in which customers can take a sign from the wall of the store (samples include: «Ask Me What I Ate for Lunch Today» and «Ask Me About the Most Embarrassing Thing in My iTunes Library»), and place it in front of their table if they'd like to encourage random conversations with strangers.

Worrying about your intelligence, according to psychologists, is one of the most surefire ways to lose yourself a few IQ points.

You always hear about the «overnight success» of a lot of businesses, but what most people don't see is the years of behind the scenes blood, sweat, and tears that go into pushing a business to that single point in time.

Think about it this way: most sales processes start with a single point of contact.

To emphasize this point, in the past year I've published a book, spoken at Google, maintained one of the most popular business podcasts on iTunes, and am having serious conversations about creating a television show about my life.

McKinsey further pointed out that such moves helped senior leaders avoid the typical pitfalls that inhibit success, most notably the perception gap pitfall between the top and the rest of the organization about what's really going on day - to - day, and the pitfall of over-planning.

The nice thing about building out your points one layer at a time is that you're making the most of your time.

«Most students find this experience very helpful in thinking about whether they'd like to start their own venture at some point, to join an early stage company, or to work at a firm that's further along in it's growth trajectory,» Deb Whitman, director of the Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies explained in an email exchange with Poets & Quants.

McGonigal points out that one of the most replicated findings about willpower is that it seems to be finite — that is, we only have so much and it runs out as we use it.

As another point of reference, the Starbucks app — the most successful mobile payments app in the US — currently accounts for about 1 in every 15 dollars spent in US - company operated stores three years after launch.

While not all gossip is bad — one can share secrets about wonderful things like a suspected pregnancy or job promotion — Epstein points out that «useful gossip is, in the minds of most people, not what gossip is really about,» and so the majority of the book focuses on the more naughty kind of tattling, the kind that makes your heart beat faster when the subject of ridicule comes around the corner.

In most deals with convertible notes or value - added co-investors who «want into the round» the negotiation re-opens after the term sheet and this is a source of frustration at a point where the founder and the lead investor should be feeling great about each other.

The key point here is that effective delegation is about placing your focus where it matters most, and letting others take care of tasks you shouldn't be doing.

But most of the correct points USA Today made about that issue were lost in a self - made haze of naked opportunism.

In fact, direct access to Google's cutting - edge mobile services may be the Droid Pro's most persuasive selling point: As of late 2010, the Android Market application storefront was home to well over 80,000 apps, while rival BlackBerry App World mustered only about 10,000.

And this is the most important point: When we talk about the qualities of a great leader or read their words on paper without truly understanding the enormous challenges they face and the rare strength it takes to overcome them, we may as well be two - dimensional stick figures trying to imagine a three - dimensional world.

In one of the most pointed exchanges of the interview, Lauer reiterated that the White House knew about that Flynn's misleading of Pence last month.

Since each point on a 30 - year fixed rate mortgage lowers Quicken's base rate of 4.38 % by 25 basis points, we found that you would need to pay about $ 2,700 to reach the standard mortgage rate of 4.00 % found at most major banks.

Because most wealthy Chinese seem to think about RMB in terms of USD or Hong Kong dollars, it is the fear that any depreciation of the RMB against those two currencies (the Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the USD through a modified currency board) greater than the couple of percentage points interest rate differential would yield less than equivalent USD or Hong Kong dollar bonds.

For example, on the most current version of the retrofitted self - driving Lexus, a mounted laser has about a 12 - degree field of view that it uses to essentially zoom in on details of points of interest.

While many companies started out using social media to get the word out about products, the most successful have significantly expanded their efforts to engage their customers at every step of what we call the «customer corridor,» touch points that start when a potential customer first learns of a product and extend through the moment they opt to make repeat purchases.

Your point about Enron, Tower, Hollywood, etc. really hits home & that's why most of my free cash flow (since my nut is covered already) goes towards buying stuff you can touch & see like real companies or real estate.

They quickly pointed out that Europe is too large simply to assume that the world can absorb large changes in its capital and trade accounts, and as they debated about the ways global constraints would affect the assumptions about European surpluses most of them quickly decided that either the markets would not permit surpluses of this size, perhaps by bidding up the euro, or the impact of these surpluses would be very negative for the world.

In the most recent assessment, the City has stated that they have redefined project boundaries to minimize impacts on the abandoned Mill Creek channel, but they haven't addressed the more important point — what about the impact of the project on potential efforts to re-animate the channel in the future?

Despite having been in the investment business for over a decade at that point, most of my reading had been about other value managers, so I was excited about learning from traders who used completely different investment philosophies than we used at Oakmark.

It can be difficult to have the correct perspective when you are following the markets on a daily basis, but most average investors don't have to worry about this type of lump - sum, point - in - time investment performance.

At present, the price is a little over US$ 290 per ounce, about 15 per cent above the recent low point but about 30 per cent below the most recent peak of US$ 415 per ounce (Graph B1).

Although companies have been quick to talk about the benefits of tax reform — most expect their tax rates to drop by 6 to 7 percentage points — many have been opaque about how they intend to use those savings.

The CPP premium rate hike for most proposed reforms is about 3 percentage points on top of the current 9.9 per cent rate.

The most recent and thorough of these, by Lukasz Rachel and Thomas Smith at the Bank of England, concluded that for the industrial world, neutral real interest rates have declined by about 4.5 percentage points over the last 30 years and are likely to stay low in the future.

But the score increase will be minimal — only about 10 points — for most of those people.

Therefore, the card's rewards rate varies between 1.5 % and 3 %, and your annual point bonus is worth about $ 90 — thus covering most of the card's annual fee.

FANG stocks have led the market higher throughout most of the nine - year bull market, so it's not surprising the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled more than 330 points (1.3 percent) on Monday, while the S&P 500 fell about 42 points (1.5 percent).

We have pointed out numerous times about how most successful investors think like owners of businesses rather than owners of stocks.

Most of the content is about them, a mental snapshot of who they are at that point in our lives that often morphs into a painfully long narrative for anyone under 25!

That is only a fraction of the income - tax rate that most workers pay — on top of which is piled the 11 % FICA wage withholding for Social Security and Medicare that all workers have to pay on their salaries up to the cut - off point of about $ 102,000 (This cut - off frees from this tax the tens of millions of dollars that hedge fund traders pay themselves).

Note: Although I suspect most of you know by now, I want to point out that I've launched Money Boss, a new blog about «advanced personal finance».

In a richly valued market, that sort of risk control is most appropriately established using call options having a strike price situated at about the point where various trend - following measures would turn negative — what is known in finance as a «contingent position» because the position creates its own exit if the market deteriorates further without an interim recovery - and particularly if it deteriorates abruptly.

As my colleague Tim Green pointed out in an in - depth article about Buffett's IBM investment, most of IBM's revenue comes from clients who use multiple IBM solutions, which creates big switching costs (this is what Buffett means by «stickiness»).

As you can see, conversations about medical ethics can get complex and circuitous very quickly (like many socio - political issues do)-- which is precisely the point that most of us miss.

One of the most challenging points to get across about this issue in general is that a larger proportion of the exploitation resides inside forced manual labor, rather than in sex slavery.

Most Christianity today is, in my opinion, not a religion that Jesus preached, but a religion made up about Jesus by various authorities, and as the cartoon points out, some still have a lot of issues with gender, sexism, sexuality, power and control.

As to the point of Judas being the «most trusted» of the disciples, that idea is opposed to what the Bible suggests about Judas.

This particular item can perhaps be dismissed as an oddity, but its appearance underlines the more general point that the most important intellectual and institutional expressions of the Christian faith, including Rome and Canterbury, have found almost nothing of value to say about the current Middle East crises, and more generally about the West's struggle against militant Islam and terrorism, and the terrifying possibilities now facing the entire civilized world.

If I was laying there waiting to die and I summoned my chaplain, and I wasn't allowed to talk about the things I most wanted to get off my chest before dying, the things I needed to make sure were said before the last drop of life in me was gone, what is the point of calling anyone in to talk to?

Patriarchae, my point is that Pastor Jeffers» comments about Mormonism perfectly exemplifies the main problem with the hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of Protestant denominations (most of whom can not agree on the time of day much less matters theological).

Comfort lists them on p. 30, and while I most of them are good rules (I have serious misgivings about several), the application of these rules is highly subjective, as Comfort himself points out.