Sentences with phrase «things numbers do»

One thing those numbers don't take into account is the power of dollar cost averaging, which you do when you make regular contributions through a 401 (k) or IRA.

Not exact matches

He could try and do this (assuming he becomes president) by doing a number of things, including stacking the court with judges favorable to his views.

I rarely think about this number, but checking that column every week provides a feedback loop that tells me if I'm doing the right things.

If companies are looking to attract tech talent, the number one thing they can do is take a stand on some of these social, moral and ethical issues.»

Just because the number of women in technology - related fields has always been dramatically lower than that of men doesn't mean that things will stay that way.

An employee's profile page includes badges for reaching milestones such as service anniversaries, a certain number of recognitions sent or received, or for doing things such as putting an item from the store on a wish list.

Bottom line: Not necessarily the place that the numbers or non-stop notoriety would ever take you, but the right thing to do if you're trying to make an important difference in people's lives.

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Says Purdy, «We've been doing a number of things to get our hybrid fibre and cable system to a level where, both on broadband and on TV, we have a superior product in market.»

So we've done a number of things.

You may not be able to control the exact circumstances when you meet your customers, but you can do a number of things to prepare the setting.

There's an ever - so - slight learning curve in figuring out what Amazon's Alexa can and can't do, but once that's passed, the Echo Dot can forecast the weather, read an audiobook, order a pizza, tell Dad jokes, or any number of things Mom should find charming.

Nevertheless, there seemed to me a number of simple things they could have done to significantly increase their income.

According to Emma Seppala — science director for Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education — there are a number of things you can do to replenish your mental energy that don't involve drinking more coffee or high - caffeine sodas.

Having some standard to get to, whether it's a word count you'll write or just a number of days for which you'll do a thing, sparks that tiniest bit of competitiveness and energy.

The professor at Arizona State University's business school and author of The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse, asks her clients, «What are the things you would never do at this company to get a client, to keep a client, to make sure you met your numbers for the quarter?»

In the second group are existing cable and satellite companies, who will be making a number of arguments about why this opening up isn't necessary — including the argument that they are already opening up themselves and therefore don't need the FCC to barge in and wreck things.

«Without a doubt, the number one thing that's influenced me is her saying, «Just get it done.

Lewis points out, for instance, that early baseball stats didn't bother to record the number of walks a batter earned — mostly because one of the early promoters of baseball stats, a journalist named Henry Chadwick, happened to be a fan of cricket, a sport where there's no such thing as a «walk.»

Every person has a unique personality and unique ideas, so if you are someone with an idea and you want to make videos, the number - one thing to do is to just do it.

But in order to do so, we need to know basic things such as the units (jobs vs. person - years of employment) of the numbers we're debating.

«Any number of random things could work on YouTube,» Womack says, «and things that don't cost money often do work.

If you stay on top of the numbers, there are many things you can do to monitor and improve your performance.

All young people can do is base their options on what the current health - care rules are today, said Carolyn McClanahan, both a certified financial planner and an M.D. «The number one thing young people need to do is continue to scream at the politicians to get some good health legislative policy in place,» said McClanahan, founder and director of financial planning at Life Planning Partners.

There's an ever - so - slight learning curve in figuring out what Amazon Echo's Alexa virtual assistant can and can't do, but once that's passed, it can forecast the weather, read an audiobook, order a pizza, tell Dad jokes, or any number of things your father should find fascinating.

In New York City, we've done a number of things.

«They did things like pull insurance records to make sure each building in the model was the right color and had the correct number of floors.»

If you're not using a method of communication that gives notifications and prompts immediate responses, then you want to minimize the number of emails needed to get things done.

I don't think now that they have a majority they're going to all of a sudden rock the boat with Conservative principles, which could mean any number of things in terms of cost - cutting and other policies.

«There are a number of things they can do to enshrine independence,» he says.

The CEO adds that IBM has done a number of things to keep women working, including shipping breast milk back to babies when their mothers are traveling on the job.

There's an ever - so - slight learning curve in figuring out what Amazon Echo's Alexa virtual assistant can and can't do, but once that's passed, it can forecast the weather, read an audiobook, order a pizza, tell Dad jokes, or any number of things your dad should find fascinating.

It's the number one thing you can do to put someone at ease.

Generous daycare subsidies might be the smartest thing governments can do: Extensive research shows the most effective way to increase the number of women taking part in the economy is to ensure reliable, affordable child care.

Vanity Fair contributing editor Sarah Ellison said that Trump has also talked with advisors often about his ability to drive high traffic numbers for networks such as Fox News and CNN, and feels that he could do the same thing for his own media company even if he is unsuccessful in his presidential bid.

Because the number one way to mess up sales quotas is to pay your sales team for things that don't pay you.

«We're... reducing the number of things that can and do go wrong by proactively managing you.

When planning their online store, one of the first things Balestrieri and Melville did was hire a website hosting company that met widely used PCI DSS standards for processing credit card payments, which include a number of mandatory security measures.

Those and four dozen more sordid facts of 9 - to - 5 life have been collected in 50 Simple Things Your Business Can Do to Save the Earth (EarthWorks Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1991), a slender paperback enumerating the number of trees, gallons of oil, cubic yards of ozone, and so on, that industry squanders.

Assuming the letter you've received doesn't paint the whole picture for you, calling this number will be well worth it as talking to a person not only helps you understand the nuances of the situation but there's comfort in knowing that a human being with a name and a face at the IRS is there to help you figure things out.

Of all the people I've talked to over the years about starting their own business, the fear of failure is the number one thing that keeps many people from doing what they really want to do.

He takes the quiet time to do a number of things, claiming to read the papers, exercise, listen to music, look at email and watch TV all at once.

While there are probably a few things Millennials themselves can do to beat back perfectionism (for the love of all that is holy, spend less time on social media, for instance), the underlying causes of this shift suggested by the study, including an increasingly terrifying scramble for a shrinking number of slots in the middle class, are something we're all going to have to address together.

The number one thing is to really believe they can do what's asked of them.

One of the first things I did was buy a ton of lawn signs with my number.

There's an ever - so - slight learning curve in figuring out what Amazon's Alexa can and can't do, but once that's passed, the Echo Dot can forecast the weather, read an audiobook, order a pizza, tell Dad jokes, or any number of things they should find charming.

«You have 11 players, and if you say each player can do one of 4 different things, then your number of possible actions is four to the power of 11 — which is about 4 million,» Togelius says.

«One thing that we noticed is that if you want to get large number of people to do something, they tend to have a what we call a shared identity,» Baghai says.

Office workers are often judged by petty things completely unrelated to the quality and quantity of the work they do, such as what time someone gets to and leaves work, the number of breaks they take or if a passerby happens to notice they've got Facebook open.

Verne Harnish, co-founder of Entrepreneurs» Organization, the largest association of top entrepreneurs in the world: «Your job is to find that front domino, that number one thing that if you could accomplish, [that] will knock over the other 98 and get more done than the other 98 combined.»