Sentences with phrase «pretty good companies»

I think this is like debating between two pretty good companies.

«As I told my client, I'm in some pretty good company,» Mitchell said before listing other major polling institutions that missed the mark with the Democratic primary.

I have some pretty good company in that assessment from Robert Shiller to Jeremy Grantham and many others for whom I have a great deal of respect.

So there's pretty good company out there arguing that the core of Christianity is a set of beliefs.»

Pretty good company.

As you can see our 2 wide boys are in pretty good company.

Randy Moss, Anquan Boldin and Mike Ditka... pretty good company to be in for a rookie receiver like Amari Cooper.

And England, though in pretty good company, were also in pretty good shape.

Dear Abby: After spending yet another night alone while my husband was out having a few beers with his friends, I decided to write him the following thank - you note: Thank you for the countless times you've gone out with your friends and left me home alone; it's made me realize I'm pretty good company.

All the pieces are really cute though, and it must have been a pretty good company to work for if you stayed for 10 years.

I still can't spell, but neither could Thomas Jefferson, so I figure I'm in pretty good company.

looks pretty sweet, i du n no how fast its gonna run windows 7 though, ive seen netbooks with similar specs and its sluggish, asus is a pretty good company though im sure its gonna be a top notch product, cant wait to try one out.

This is the 16th year of dividend increases, which puts this OMI in pretty good company.

They are still found in some pretty good company these days with the likes of Sigourney Weaver, Seth Myers, and Uma Thurman all being owners of IGs.

Stevie Ray Vaughn, Willie Nelson are pretty good company.

Stevie Ray Vaughn and Willie Nelson are pretty good company.

In other words, the Switch is in pretty good company — the Wii sold a total of 12.75 million units in Japan, and the PS2 sold 23.2 million.

(from Emerson's essay, «Self - Reliance») So, if it is the case that a conscientious scientist trying to raise awareness of global warming, and trying to use reason regarding our use of coal, is misunderstood, that scientist can at least consider himself in pretty good company.

Rob was at the forefront of everything for our mob back in the 1970s through to the nineties and understandably kept some pretty good company.

Not exact matches

So chances are pretty good that you might have made a purchase on Amazon or will in the near future, especially as the company expands.

The company will have some domestic flights as well, and said it's «pretty far along» in talks with one of the three largest U.S. airlines about adding secret fares, he said.

A friend suggested Chameleon, thinking the creature would be a good representative for the region where the company sources its beans — and make for a pretty cool logo to boot.

This year, Adidas has created what it's calling «the perfect sneakers for Oktoberfest,» a pair of $ 200 ($ 238) kicks designed to repel beer and vomit, as well pretty much any other liquid you can throw, drop, or pour on it, a process the company is calling «Oktoberfesterization.»

It's the latest survival strategy for a company that's pretty good at surviving.

The companies on Inc.'s Best Workplaces list have some pretty great benefits for their employees.

At Cisco, I made every decision based on what was good for the company, and that pretty much ruined my marriage and my health.

But that said, we can look at FCA's most recent quarterly results and get a pretty good idea as to how important Jeep is to the company's overall bottom line.

And we now have really good people at the company focused on this, so our ability to sniff out in diligence a promising idea or approach versus companies that aren't bringing a lot of value to the table is pretty good.

It worked pretty well, getting him an interview with the famously selective company.

They do a pretty good job of positioning the brand a direct - to - consumer service, not really favoring one [media company] or the other.

[Nickerson] later introduced me to my wife, he was on the board of my last three companies — so he's a pretty good example of an important mentor.

«We think there's some good earnings growth potential from these companies, because they do have, and they will have, a pretty good advantage, having access to cheap energy [and] cheap labour, and we're seeing manufacturing come back to the U.S.»

As many customers note, however, South Shore customer service seems to be pretty good, and the company will likely send out replacement parts for any defective parts you receive.

You can tell that this kind of concern is weighing on the minds of Disney (DIS) investors, because the stock dropped by close to 10 % following the release of the company's quarterly financial report, despite the fact that the overall numbers for the entertainment conglomerate were pretty good.

«And when I look at my friends who are running other good companies, the single biggest difference that I see in whether the companies end up becoming really great and reaching their potential or just pretty good is whether they're comfortable and really self - confident enough to have people who are stronger than them around them,» Zuckerberg said.

Good news for Mozilla: if Yahoo implodes — as in, if the company is eventually sold to someone that completely mucks up Yahoo's strategies and vision — Mozilla still gets a pretty big payout.

Still, the stock has done pretty well since the Oracle of Omaha first revealed his stake in the company.

«It's pretty good when a production manager at a sales - driven company can win,» notes sales director Bill Litsinger.

For the better part of the last decade or so, cable and TV companies have watched the upheaval going on in the movie and music industries — not to mention the newspaper business — and felt pretty sanguine about their prospects.

It's pretty difficult to nurture leads, especially as a fledgling company, when your well - known competitor is using the exact same method.

I know it's not popular to say in 2011, but compared to places like Argentina, the U.S. remains a pretty good place for a middle class person to start a company:

«I think as a company, if you can get those two things right — having a clear direction on what you are trying to do and bringing in great people who can execute on the stuff — then you can do pretty well.»

We are pretty much in the same geographies but we don't compete directly often so for us it's really a good fit for the two companies,» Couche - Tard chairman Alain Bouchard said during a conference call.

In fact, failure is probably the constant of modern commerce: Companies are launched, they exist for a period of time, and then, well, they pretty much all fail.

(Lucky for the company so far, the money has been pretty good.)

«We're weathering the storm pretty well,» says Burrows, noting that the company's assets are backstopped by signed contracts.

Companies realized cartoon characters were a pretty good way of selling junk food to children.

The home of Amazon and Costco, Boeing and Expedia, as well as rising stars like Adaptive Biotechnologies, online marketplace OfferUp and space company Blue Origin, Washington has the old and new economies covered — as well as pretty much everything in between.

(Google notes that other companies are free to set up caching systems to use with AMP, but given that Google's will be free and, one imagines, pretty good, broad competition here seems unlikely.)

«We've been up a bit more than others because the perception is we've done a pretty good job managing the company.