Sentences with phrase «talking little companies»

We love high yield corporate bonds; they pay a lot more interest than treasuries and also because these are not the greatest borrowers — I'm not talking little companies; think CitiBank and other very big companies that don't have a pristine credit rating — they can not lend money out very long so the maturities of our high yield bond fund is closer in.

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Lots of companies talk the talk on diversity — but it's the little touches that demonstrate how your culture really works

«They're all talking about the bounce, so right now everybody in this room has to like me at least a little bit,» Trump told the CEOs of Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Google's parent company, and other tech titans.

«No matter the size of the company you're talking to, you're ultimately connecting with a single person, who, like most people, probably likes things such as proof of success, kindness, a little sense of humor and not working with jerks.

Meanwhile, despite much talk about change, Congress and the Trump administration have done little to control drug prices or threaten drug - company profits.

For all the talk of fostering superclusters and creating new companies, it should be noted that there's very little in the way of new financial resources to back that up in the budget — despite the big deficits.

In a piece he wrote for Medium recently, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz talks about the early days of the company and how he slept little and ate badly, and was hyper - competitive with co-workers.

Musk is expected to talk a little bit more about how the company plans to finance several of the projects he outlined in his master plan, which includes solar - powered roofs, self - driving trucks and minibuses and a shared network of self - driving cars.

But he becomes increasingly anguished when we talk about Starbucks, not because of Schultz's missteps — he's proud of the company for taking a stand — but because it solidified to him how little support there is for black issues in general.

If our device could be moved close to where it is needed, but still on the energy producer's side of that equation, yet just outside the meter, then the energy producers could have millions of these small devices that they own and operate, because grandma doesn't want to become her own utility company because she has a solar panel, but if the utility companies and energy providers could compete with each other to have small units that are so close to the loads, they still get the full advantage of being a supplier of energy, except with just millions of little plants, they can avoid needing transmission lines, distribution lines, substations, et cetera, that everybody is talking about being expensive, unreliable, and subject to issues.

If you read between the lines on this Caisse / Lightspeed deal; or, if you can find the video interview with CEO Dax Desilva talking about this deal; it is obvious to me that this was a clear instance where the US - based venture company was trying to force an exit strategy to support their own exit methodology and x-return on capital goals; and likely with little concern for Lightspeed's long term goals as a stand alone company.

Sorry Christards, at the end of the day, when the change comes to allow same-s.e.x marriage — and it's coming, don't kid yourself — it will be because people across the country are talking to gay and lesbian co-workers and neighbors, meeting same-s.e.x couples and their kids at Little League games, and working at companies with domestic - partner health plans.

If you are the chief executive of a bus company and you spend all your time talking about the gospel and not looking after train timetables and your staff you would probably get sacked and it felt to me that as the main message carrier for the party it was a little bit like having your main advertising hoarding permanently damaged, permanently vandalised so your me.

Caryn Hartglass: Okay, let's take a little break, and when we come back we're going to be talking about a new product, and a company that's making a tempeh.

While we're talking about the awesome products that SilverFern sent me to bake with, let me tell you a little bit about the company.

I've talked about eShakti before... OK I'm a little obsessed with the company.

I spent a blissful Saturday on the beach in the best company, lounging in the sand, catching a little sun, talking and loving life.

have been spending extra time talking on the phone and enjoying the company of the ones I love and holding them a little tighter and just feeling grateful for this life that we live.

Recently, have been spending extra time talking on the phone and enjoying the company of the ones I love and holding them a little tighter and just feeling grateful for this life that we live.

The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).

In order to delve a little further into how much, if any, the modern paradigm has changed, as well as enquiring about how schools should select the best photographer for their needs Education Matters Editor, Campbell Phillips talked to the Owner and Managing Director of Photo Hendriks, Western Australia's longest - serving school photography company.

No one in the company wants to talk about that, although Pagani would have you believe that the capital all came from his little plastics molding shop, which seems improbable.

As much as we like to laugh a little we also enjoyed seeing auto companies talk about more serious topics.

It's easy to zone out a little when a company chief starts talking up the merits of their latest creation, but when it's a man like Preuninger with cars on his CV such as the 997 GT3 RS 4.0 and his success in making the current 911 GT3 so darned good, in spite of those initial doubts on the electric steering and PDK gearbox, his opinion on how it drives is worth listening to.

Many traditional published authors have talked about how a lot of the book marketing falls on them after releasing and they get little help from the publishing company.

Categories include Books to Talk About, History Buff, and Crossover Teen, among others, promising to add a little bit of what makes the company's in - store browsing so appealing.

While talking with an old friend of mine, who founded and majority owns a company that makes the best commercial lawn mowers in the world (full disclosure: I own a little less than 1 %), I told him about my blog, and he thought it made perfect sense for me to do it.

This brings up a side note: any of the no advance fee settlement companies NOT paying their reps on commission???? And I am not talking about the sneaky little trick credit counselors did in attempt to keep their 501 C3s by scaling salaries based upon number of deals enrolled.

Ben Graham gave a couple interviews in 1976, after the final, 1973 edition of The Intelligent Investor, where he talks about the «group approach» or the idea of «buy [ing] groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued — regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company.»

Doug Hoyes: It makes no sense, and I know in our firm we keep a very detailed list of every bank, every credit card company, every major creditor because some of them are willing to accept a bit less, some of them tend to be a little higher than what you're talking about, and that's where you're getting this roughly one third ratio from.

As I've said, if a small but attractive dairy brand is plugged into another company's much larger manufacturing & distribution network, there's v little incremental cost / investment required — therefore, the incremental operating margin to be earned can be pretty substantial (not to talk of the increased revenue potential).

The day ended on a high note when I met with the President of the company, Scott Liles who was gracious enough to stay a little late and spend a few minutes talking about the vision for the future of the company.

By selecting the best safari company and talking to a safari specialist you can be confident that every little detail will have been perfected through experience, avoiding the one - size - fits - all approach of some of the more generic brands.

In regards to the DPI from personal experience and from talking to others I generally believe that 2,500 will meet the requirements of the majority of gamers, the vast stats attributed to other mice being little more than numbers that companies love to spew in their marketing, however there is always the chance that you're one of those that do prefer a very high DPI rating then either consider adjusting or simply look at other mice.

Until we are willing to talk to utilities companies and pay a little more for clean electricity, I think that these internet sites will just remain useful knowledge, not a potential tool for change.

But Pearce argues that companies are often a little judicious with the facts behind these claims — Eurostar, for example, is fairly quiet when talking to the green market about the fact its low emissions are due to French nuclear power, and while Virgin's pendolino trains claim a pretty low carbon output, many of their other trains are still powered by dirty diesel (the UK is way behind Europe on electrification, which would cut emissions greatly).

It's possible that they do, but we're not talking about them individually; What we rejoice about is the death of a symbol for GM.There's no doubt in our minds that the vehicle that a car company picks as its iconic product has an impact on both the company itself (how it targets advertising, what the other models are like, what ideas it will reject as not fitting with a certain image, etc) and on what customers of that company expect, since the whole point of a halo product is to put a little of its DNA in the more affordable models.

CAMPBELL: The difficulty in talking about the big cases, I look at the little cases, and part of my concern is that where you may see some of the court decisions that become problematic for the areas in which you are involved because, think of the companies, and they may be reasonable size but not huge, that don't have an in - house IT person, don't have an in - house counsel and maybe cloud computing for servers, and they have got a major piece of litigation and they don't have a policy.

Do a little Internet research of your own into the company's founders and top executives and, if possible, talk to people with whom they've worked before.

They do a little bit of AAI work to appear to be keeping pace, but in reality they are rather like oil companies talking about how much they love wind and solar power....

Although McAfee confessed to knowing little about the legal field, the author of The Second Machine Age (affiliate link), a New York Times bestseller, nonetheless captivated the tech - loving audience with his talk on the rapidly accelerating power of technology and the characteristics of the companies that successfully use that power to disrupt their industries.

We are talking about a domain that morphs continuously, about companies and government agencies whose technologies impact the legal sector, but a domain the legal profession has done little to shape to suit its own needs.

Do a little research on insurance companies, take as many quotes possible, talk to different agents and narrow down on search.

Talking to an agent, instead of just working with a company through the phone or internet will often help you find those little discounts you may not have realized.

Shannon: I'm so excited to have you because, well, first of all, I love your company, and I want to talk about that in a little bit.

Not only Google Virtual Reality, but the company should talk a little more about its highly anticipated Project Tango.

Valerie just recently joined the board of Lyft, she's on the board of another internet company, and we were talking a little about tech stuff.

They talk of value being shared among all users of the network, instead of accruing to a single company... but they tend to elide the fact that such a network would be slower, more complex, and harder to use, in exchange for very little end - user value.

Remember that we're talking about a company that's been incorporated mere months ago, attempting a delicate resuscitation of a brand that retains a lot of nostalgic fans, but has little other advantages against some incredible fierce competition.

The consumer group says that it sent a «demand letter» to Samsung last month, leading to talks with the tech giant - but that «this did not lead to the desired result», leaving them with little option but to take the company to court.