Sentences with phrase «talk about themselves all of the time»

In a rather desperate attempt to claw back support, Cameron has performed yet another U-Turn: possibly the most talked about of his time in office.

The people you like to talk to at a party are people that listen, don't talk about themselves all of the time, and perhaps offer helpful advice.

Not exact matches

The most effective salespeople, for instance, have been shown to only talk about 30 percent of the time — the rest is spent listening.

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.

So, instead of worrying about it, concentrate on what you want to communicate, such as asking good questions, not engaging in time - wasting small talk, and looking people in the eyes.

«One of the last times I spoke with the president, he said Melania had seen me on «Fox & Friends,» and she told him there was this really handsome guy on television talking about him,» he said.

Every one of Marsh & McLennan's 60,000 employees has heard Glaser talk about this many times.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Team Penske, which made it the perfect time to talk to Roger about business, leadership, and what he believes has contributed the most to his long - term success: people.

«People talked about the demise of physical books as if it was only a matter of time, but even 50 to 100 years from now, print will be a big chunk of our business,» Penguin Random House chief executive Markus Dohle told the Times.

Despite that, almost every insurance company I talked to was spending an incredible amount of time and money trying to get people to think about their insurance company more often.

I spend a lot of time with startups, and I hear many companies talk about their approach to sales and their interactions with customers.

You can also think of this model similar to how Dan Sullivan of the Strategic Coach talks about how you need to spend most of your time doing the things you are best at and enjoy doing that you can also make money doing.

«Everyone talks about the importance of being willing to fail, but more importantly it's being willing to have enough humility to recognize ahead of time that you don't know all the answers, that you do need other people's help.»

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

McAlpin: I spent a lot of time talking with farmers and buyers about how they do business and how they could see this working.

While the company has talked about wanting a piece of the European pie for some time, investor still reacted negatively to the news.

It's all about getting the capital access — the politics of it we can talk about another time.

Offerpop's marketing head, Kevin Bobowski, talks about how he makes the most of his time in — and out — of the office.

It's a conference about big ideas, and the most popular talks of all time cover topics like creativity in schools, body language, and the power of introverts.

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

I've been spending a lot of time lately talking about how fastest - growing startups should negotiate when they are trying to hire experienced, relatively senior talent (especially in the sales area) for their companies.

BAA, the U.K. airports operator, is in talks to sell a half - share in a group of warehouses and offices around Heathrow airport for about # 600 million ($ 1.18 billion), the Times newspaper reported.

So, a portion of the time you spend on social media should be focused on sharing and talking about content published by others.

Speaking to The Irish Times, Kenny said, «European leaders need to be over here talking to Republicans, Democrats and the administration about what membership of the European Union means and the relationship that it can have with as powerful an entity as the United States.»

David MacNaughton says he's feeling more optimistic about the state of the talks than he has in a long time.

And since we're talking about video games, the Entertainment Software Association of Canada has released a few new snippets of data just in time for E3.

«A lot of times people will just talk about what they're working on or turn to their neighbor and ask them,» says Bacigalupo, (who, by the way, was recently featured on the cover of Inc.).

He found they spent anywhere from 70 % to 90 % of their time in meetings, but «when I asked what they were doing about making meetings better, almost all of the leaders of large corporations that I talked to just sort of shrugged their shoulders with a resigned air of defeat.»

In the new issue of Inc., I talked to the billionaire venture capitalist about why he's been putting so much of his time and money into biotech startups, particularly those focused on health and human biology.

«If two women each talk to their friends the same amount of time, but one of them spends more time reading about friends on Facebook as well, the one reading tends to grow slightly more depressed,» Burke says.

Last week we talked about multitasking and the associated «time costs» of splitting your attention between projects, on - going tasks, and interruptions.

So over time I've gotten fairly good at Social Jiu - Jitsu, the ancient art of getting people to talk about themselves.

It is anomalous to see financial journalists talk about the futility of market timing in the stock market but then give the impression houses should be sold to avoid an anticipated collapse in prices.

For those who didn't get the memo about Einstein, Salesforce's planned artificial intelligence effort, chief executive Marc Benioff spent quite a bit of time talking very generally about it.

The last time we talked with Tony Hawk, CEO and «chief trick - rider» of Tony Hawk Inc., he was nervous about the release of Tony Hawk: Ride, a video game that debuted an expensive skateboard - shaped controller.

Over the years, I've spent a lot of time talking to executive leaders about how they run their businesses.

We spent a lot of time talking to investors about what we are trying to do and making sure they are on board with this vision.

The sometimes - activist hedge fund, founded by billionaire Barry Rosenstein, also said it owns about 593,000 shares of Sprouts, which earlier this year held preliminary talks to be taken private by Cerberus Capital Management and merged with its Albertsons Cos. brand, people familiar with the matter said at the time.

Let's get rid of the early and late terminology and just talk about what we can learn from people who get on board at different times.

It was the iPod that Steve Jobs was talking about in 2003 when he uttered the line that has become one of his most defining, and frequently quoted, aphorisms: «Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,» he told the New York Times.

Amazingly, the insurance companies at that time never talked to each other or exchanged information about suspect VINs that should have been taken out of circulation.

BAA, the U.K. airports operator, is in talks to sell a half - share in a group of warehouses and offices around Heathrow airport for about # 600 million, the Times newspaper reported.

We've been talking about our open - ended PTO policy for a while, and whenever we do, the same questions arise: Don't employees take advantage of the company by taking too much time off, damaging business results?

With the NBA All - Star Game being held in Canada for the first time this year, the president and general manager of the Toronto Raptors talks about leadership on the court and off, the «Drake Effect» and when to drop the F - bomb:

At the same time, members of the GOP are already talking about cutting welfare and other social programs next, and there are signs that they'll be doing so at a bad time.

When I did my MBA, I interviewed hundreds of women and spent a lot of time doing digital anthropology... going to chat rooms and getting people to talk to me about things they wouldn't necessarily feel comfortable talking about in person.

Talking about the past, while painful at the time, provides children a sense of where they came from and builds resilience over time.

I was doing a seminar many years ago on networking and was talking about the value of collaborating with your competition from time to time, and how it is actually possible to increase your business by collaborating and cooperating with people who might be your competitors.

According to recent research, we humans spend 60 % of our time talking about ourselves.

The London, Ont., native doesn't talk much about his early days, but Robert Rosiello, a colleague of Pearson's from his time at McKinsey and Valeant's current chief financial officer, says getting hired straight out of college was an impressive feat.