Sentences with word «spent»

«I spent a lot of time sitting in the restaurants, getting a feel for the guest experience, deciding whether this concept would work outside of Tampa.»

Most entrepreneurs who become «overnight successes» have spent years learning, researching and making mistakes.

Business Model «Time spent on your business model drives growth,» says Schleckser.

She owns two locally - based companies and spent nearly a decade advising organizations on technical and creative solutions.

Zuckerberg, who is speaking with a handful of lawmakers before his congressional hearings over the next few days, spent more than an hour in a one - on - one, closed - door meeting with Nelson.

Half of small business social media users complain that the platforms take more time than they'd thought, but almost the same number believe it's time well - spent — that their social media initiatives will pay off financially in a year or less.

«I had a most extraordinary Christmas, and I have come to the conclusion that I would not have spent it out of the trenches for worlds,» another British soldier said in a letter to loved ones.

Don't skip lunch, give yourself a break and your time will be better spent in the afternoon.

It's hard to focus on being creative when a good part of your creative energies are spent trying to figure out how to work within a system that doesn't tolerate dissent.

Similar data for China was not available, but the country's consumption has been growing, Last year, Chinese consumers reportedly spent 840 billion Chinese yuan (just under $ 140 billion) in retail and catering services over the week - long holiday, an increase of 11.4 percent from 2016.

Of course that initial $ 2.04 per week, after inflation and other escalators, works out to $ 44 billion spent on affordable housing over the next 10 years.

Apple reportedly spent $ 150 million to bring the iPhone to market.

I have spent the last seven years studying these questions and searching for both the truth and the correct answer.

Entrepreneurs fall into a trap where they look at the time spent on a particular idea, project or employee and think they need to continue investing more time accordingly.

González Franch has run AI alongside CEO Tomas Bello Garza for almost 30 years, and by their own admission the broader well - being of their 4,000 employees wasn't something they'd spent a lot of time thinking about.

Without it, people could potentially lie about what they spent, recycling the same money in different places — a would - be disaster.

Apple has never spent more than the $ 3 billion it paid for headphone maker Beats in 2014.

Ford also tangled with President Donald Trump, who spent more than a year criticizing the automaker on the campaign trail for expanding operations in Mexico.

Steve Jobs knew this — it's why, when he was starting Apple, he spent day after day calling investors from his garage.

This doesn't come as a shock to someone who just spent the better part of an hour trying to convince Comcast (CMSA)-RRB- that $ 180 is way too much to pay for too many bad TV channels; often - unreliable broadband; and downright terrible phone service.

It's a big win for Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd., whose officials spent years pushing to scrap a ban on weighted - voting rights, which give founders and executives control even with minority ownership.

That deal, though, saddled Whiting with billions in debt just as oil prices cratered, giving Continental an edge as it spent cash to improve ways it fracks wells.

Given the billions in stimulus dollars that will be spent in coming years on infrastructure projects, demand for planners is likely to grow in lockstep with the flow of federal and provincial dollars to social housing, transit, public spaces and recreational amenities.

It's a pretty great way to consider whether you've spent your time wisely or not.»

«Those two things moved him from being just another sheriff in the Midwest to someone who has to be reckoned with nationally,» said Daniel Bice, a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal - Sentinel who has spent years covering Clarke.

«In fact, founders like Michael probably have spent more time with their company than their kids.

Those of us he has spent time with appreciate the questions he asks, and the fact that he uses those questions to provide us with tools we can use to improve ourselves.

We spent a ton of time thinking about it and tried our best to keep up the collaboration, but Kanye was too busy and we haven't gotten together on it yet.»

Psychologist Angela Duckworth has spent years studying kids and adults, and found that one characteristic is a significant predictor of success: grit.

Krasinski spent his first semester teaching English in Costa Rica before returning to Brown, where his favorite classes were «Management of Industrial and Nonprofit Organizations» and an introductory biology course.

The CTC halted funding for U.S. - targeted marketing in 2012 on the grounds that existing campaigns were ineffective, U.S. visitors to Canada spent less than overseas visitors and the Commission's limited funds were better allocated elsewhere.

The New York Times reported in December that Trump spent four to eight hours a day watching TV, though he has insisted that he does «not watch much television.»

Toy makers and retailers spent most of 2014 boosting inventory to meet demand.

Telecommuting occasionally can increase engagement and productivity, both during the time spent working from home and the time spent in the office.

Kolibree's Connected Electric Toothbrush pays attention to how you brush, and lets you know if you haven't spent enough time brushing, or if you haven't paid enough attention to some of your chompers.

Gates says he was inspired by Kalanithi's thirst for knowledge, his career and his courage, and that he found the details of the neurosurgeon's last days — spent with his wife Lucy and their daughter Cady — heartbreaking.

Outsourcing expertise is money well spent when it gets you to concentrate on the things a founder should.

Most recently, she spent a decade as the Editor in Chief of Hudson Valley Magazine, but she's also held staff positions at Vanity Fair, People, and TV Guide.

After graduating from Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Business, she spent five years working in international operations management.

Measuring GDP is a bit complicated but the calculation can be done in one of two ways — by adding up what everyone earned in a year, or by adding up what everyone spent.

Thomas Thurston, the founder of Growth Science in Portland, Ore., has spent the last seven years building databases and algorithms aimed at finding commonalities between businesses that thrive and fail.

Ask him how many nights he spent away from home last year, and all he has to do is consult a spreadsheet.

As a teenager he spent summers cleaning trucks at a Tropicana distribution center near his home.

Markets around the world spent the first month and a half of 2016 zigzagging up and down over troubling news out of China and worries about losses in the banking sector.

He also spent seven years at CNN, producing financial news programs including launching the successful «In the Money» show with anchor Jack Cafferty.

«I spent the next two weeks on my laptop trying to figure out how to pull in National Weather Service radar data to see if there was a way to solve this problem.

Pastoll says the company spent six months completing the necessary paperwork and is now a registered dealer with an offering memorandum in every province except for Quebec, where it doesn't yet operate because of the language difference.

Viome recently hired Guruduth Banavar, the former head of cognitive computing at IBM Research who spent years working on Watson, to lead its A.I. efforts.

The push in recent years to patronize small businesses for holiday shopping resulted in the creation of Small Business Saturday, and this year's holiday shoppers spent an estimated $ 5.5 billion at small businesses the day after Black Friday.

But in the 45 minutes they spent with this man, he never asked a tablemate any question.