Sentences with phrase «say my books do»

And yes, as I previously said, it's no easy hermeneutical task, but throwing one's hand in the air and saying this book doesn't make sense or this God doesn't exist or must be rejected is premature, lazy and arrogant all at the same time.

i've heard others say his books don't really reflect what he's like.

Let's say the book does sell enough copies to reach the $ 8000 net revenue threshold.

Now I will say my books do pay for their own book marketing budget and bring in the funds.

As I said this book doesn't follow that approach, what it does do is cover the modern game development cycle, a brief software engineering review, a c++ review and a very nice math primer in the first 4 chapters.

Not exact matches

«I didn't actually read «Catcher in the Rye» until I was 13, and ever since then I've said that's my favorite book,» he told the Academy of Achievement.

«The chance that Don Jr. did not walk these jumos up to his father's office on the twenty sixth floor is zero,» Bannon says in the book.

One of those revisionists is Mitchell Goldberg, president of ClientFirst Strategy, based in Melville, N.Y. Metrics like P / E and price - to - book are subjective tools that never mattered as much as most investors thought they did, he says.

But... do you want to write a book because you have something truly special and important to say?

Yes, this is tedious, but if you do this exercise, you'll find that you can not only cut a lot of fluff out of your book, you can also make your book sharper and more refined, and you'll be able to really hone in on what you are trying to say, and nail it.

But I don't know of a rule book that says we can't make amazing profits and not wreck the planet at the same time.

Biderman was a relentless publicity hound, publishing a book about marriage, posing for unfortunate pictures, and saying many things he probably wishes he hadn't, such as: «We have done a really great job of making sure our data is kept secret.»

«That set of rules and those thought processes are so ingrained in society today that it's hard to communicate exactly what the vision is, and I think «Reinventing Organizations» does a better job than any other book on communicating that vision and communicating that this is not just a hypothetical like, «Oh, wouldn't it be cool if we did this,»» Bunch said.

«We're living in what I like to call the «Thank You Economy,» because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old - fashioned way — and do it authentically — are going to have a prayer of competing,» says social media expert and author of the book The Thank You Economy Gary Vaynerchuk in a recent Entrepreneur.com column.

I don't know if that will translate into sales but it's certainly getting attention for the book,» he says.

And while the book doesn't have anything useful to say about Canadian business leaders, it does raise some interesting questions about what's going on in Canadian business schools.

«Do not suppress them and become like a balloon that's poking itself in and will eventually burst,» says Weiss, the author of the new book «How We Work.»

So instead of talking about the weather or your commute, says Levy, «I always have a story of something I've been doing recently or a book that I've been reading.»

It said JOURNALIST in big letters, proudly referred to publications that don't exist anymore and highlighted projects and books that, at the time, represented the peak of my career.

«We brought in the professor and researcher who literally co-wrote the book on differential privacy for a quick peek at what we were doing,» Federighi said, grinning at the audience.

You don't sit down in January and say: «The first week of June I'll read this book.»

Their book outlines a host of other recommendations — commit to what you do best, don't chase multiple opportunities, don't copy others — that they say highly successful companies follow.

He said that unlike rivals, he doesn't plan to focus on selling «hardware» or «books.»

If you want to write a book, setting a Challenge that says you'll write for 2 hours a day will automatically trigger some progress and mental momentum, because you know that if you just do that over and over again, for six months, chances are very good you'll have at least a rough draft in place when you're done.

As a bank CEO, you're pretty unconventional: You gave up your personal parking space in the company lot, adopted «screw the status quo» as a mantra, and in your book, Weology, you say you don't know your bank's mortgage rates.

«I read blogs, books, I went to seminars, I did online courses, I just consumed any piece of information I could get my hands on so that I could learn and get an edge,» he says.

«It didn't make sense that these very popular books, which I know are quite good, aren't on the silver screen,» says Jeffrey Steiner, president and CEO of New Franchise Media.

However, the company does guard against ads that try to dupe travelers into believing they're booking travel on a hotel's actual website when they are really being sent to an OTA, the representative said.

We meet fans at book signing events, and they'll come up to Yo and say, «I want to be a YouTuber when I grow up,» and it's like, «OK, but doing what?

At first, I was worried that «The Jungle Book» would end up like «Avatar,» in which striking visuals don't actually say much.

«How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman does what it says on the tin,» notes Book Riot's Raych Krueger.

Now, we've always had a small number of very powerful players — what we're saying in the book is there's a very high likelihood that it could be a different set of players if the traditional industry folks don't move quickly.

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.

One line from that book has remained true, however: «A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Savile Row suit.»

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.

But while airlines offered some cheap flights out of south Florida after complaints, passengers said that did little good if all the flights were fully booked or canceled.

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.

If you learn by reading books and going to seminars, when I say «don't read my books, don't go to seminars,» I'm actually not picking on you.

In the cases were someone requests and apology that you don't agree is deserved, you're left with two options, says Paul Lima, a business writing trainer who has written several books on business writing.

The whole book is full of things you can do and say to make your work life easier.

As Jeff Goins says in his most recent book, «Real Artists Don't Starve:» «There is a new Renaissance that is turning starving artists into thriving artists.

«What you're getting [in the book] is one essay somebody wrote and you don't see how they fit into their entire set of four,» says Lam.

«I realized,» he says in an interview, «that if you generalized what a public intellectual does to [creating] media objects» — i.e., not just books and essays — «then one could possibly create software companies that had public intellectual impact.»

McGraw says that he keeps this in mind now with all of his work, whether it's a book he's writing, an answer he gives in an interview, or an episode he does.

There are plenty of five - minute podcasts out there, and if you can't sit and read a book, they can be a great way to learn while doing brainless work, says Saranya Krishnamurthy.

An unlike a factory where, say, books are made (which is what I used to do), since restaurant orders are unpredictable the demand for components constantly changes.

«I don't understand how Apple could ruin the record business in one year on Mac,» said Doug Morris, the head of Universal Music, according to Appetite for Self - Destruction, a new book about the record industry's ills by Rolling Stone writer Steve Knopper.

«What the little one has to do is figure out what the big one either is structurally unable to do because the rule book says you can't, or they're unwilling to do because they don't have that entrepreneurial spirit,» he told «The Brave Ones».