Sentences with phrase «think of a better term»

It is not logical or reasonable to assume without any evidence whatsoever that this «eternal soul» (not making a claim just can not think of a better term for self awareness without time or space constraints) is constrained to our time line or space as it did not originate from there.

She's authentic — its one of the things that makes her a good writer and «leader» (can't think of a better term but there is one).

I wish I could think of a better term than «De-Commodification».

Geologists aren't so sure it's the right word, but I can't think of a better term for framing the environmental, ecological, and societal challenges that we now face.

Some may consider «denial» some sort of insult, but as long as the case being put is that the only possible flaw in the modeling is that it's pessimistic, I can't think of a better term.

Not exact matches

It may be that students seeing the new pictures of the oil industry will think better of Standard Oil than did their fathers who were taught in terms of the Rockefeller trust and gushers.

Ultimately, Kreiter said, using Dalio's terms, it's a matter of balancing how «bright» (high IQ, able to think analytically) and how «smart» (sharp common sense, able to synthesize large amounts of information) candidates are, as well as how open - minded.

Or as Stephen Gordon puts it, academic economists «generally remain open to the idea of using well - thought - out infrastructure projects to promote long - term growth.»

What that means is that you are in an environment that is going to have further trouble in terms of investment returns that are in areas that are based on economic growth and areas that do relatively well like bonds... Broadly speaking, I think that investors should be looking for lower prices on most risk assets in these developed countries with the exception of Japan.»

«So you're both supporting the case of an investment belief — that these corporations will do better than the market, because they are long - term focused — and you're also creating a new trend that would support corporations in general to think more long term,» says Winslow.

Kelly Blair, a Toronto - based senior partner at executive search firm the Caldwell Partners International, prefers the term «career tactic» to «exit strategy,» but says more executives are thinking in terms of time lines, as well as end rewards, when evaluating new roles.

She really didn't think in gendered terms, she says; she was «more concerned about being the daughter of the founder and therefore needing to perform better than others so as not to give the impression of nepotism.»

He goes on to say, «They get outside of their to - do list of short - term priorities and they realize that the real key to creating more margin in their life isn't about working faster, or somehow «prioritizing» better, it's about learning to think differently.»

«What I see a lot of the time is that founders are focused on valuation and vanity metrics rather than thinking about what's going to be best for the business long - term,» he said.

It's long - term - thinking strategy and one of the best investments companies can make in their futures.

It's the kind of long - term thinking guys like Stephen used to enrich our economy 130 - odd years ago, and that smart leaders would do well to emulate today.

«While there are going to be some near - term deficit increases, we think the long - term health of the American economy is going to be much better as a result,» the Arkansas Republican said on «Squawk Box.»

While it's good that manufacturing firms think that the United States is a great place to do business, their success in America will not have the same impact, in terms of providing a huge number of well - paying jobs, as they did a half - century ago.

«People think it'll be like falling in love, but it's better not to think of a right fit in purely emotional terms.

I don't think we're there yet in terms of getting it down to the one - to - one marketing level, but at least leveraging it for insights that can provide better direction is the fact that, payments companies have essentially customer behavior data of purchases before and after someone leaves your store.

«This is certainly not the first, nor will it be the last, such hack attack on cryptocurrencies and, all things considered, I think they're taking it fairly well in terms of price,» Colas added.

On one hand, a Board thinking primarily in terms of consequences might well reason this way: «Look, we need to get past this unfortunate incident.

This means you must think not in terms of why you want to sell your service or product to them, but why they want to become a customer and how you are going to make their life better.

Then all of sudden when you get a strong lead term sheet everybody wants to chuck in «just $ 250K» and before you know it the round is $ 3.5 million and the founder starts thinking, «Yeah, $ 3.5 million would be better than $ 2 million.»

The alternative, he argues, is to think and plan in terms of seasons as well as days, weeks, years.

I think we are still in a pretty good position as founders in terms of equity.

«Individual preferences are still the main drivers for «doing good,» and price matters, too, in terms of tax relief, but we have to think about social interactions in order to really understand behavior,» Smith said.

In a deposition related to the case, he said: «These are the people who I want and — and who I think will serve the company best, and I think that the compensation plan that we have is doing its job of attracting and retaining them over the long term.»

«If the government wheeled out a significant medium - term infrastructure program, I don't think I'd have a big problem with it — they can borrow very cheaply and there's a pretty good case to be made that there's lots of demand for infrastructure.»

Kullman didn't comment on the DuPont - Dow merger specifically, but she said that deals in which companies are put together only to be broken up — which is what is happening in the DuPont - Dow transaction — are the product of short - term thinking, and not what's best for long - term shareholders or the company.

I think she is astonishingly good in terms of running the Congress and as a Democratic leader,» Steyer, who is also from California, said after being asked whether Pelosi should remain the House Democrats» leader.

I think about going public, or maybe a partnership, but we're entering into a very high - risk, demanding phase of the company's development, and strategically I think being private will allow us to make some good long - term choices.

The Beacon Institute, a new think tank created by EY (formerly Ernst & Young), studied companies that are best in class in terms of «embedding and exploiting organizational purpose.»

«I know it's so tempting to go ahead and make investments and it looks good for today,» he also commented, «but when this thing ends, because we've had speculation, we've had money building up four to six years in terms of a risk pattern, I think it could end very badly.»

Even with the talent its well - respected universities produce... is Amazon, a company that thinks of growth in terms of decades, going to locate a headquarters in a place where it might have to hire over 4 percent of the metro area's labor force with uncertainty over whether that labor force will ever grow?

ZINO: Well, I think in the interim term, what we have to look at in terms of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is what can they sell within that services business, you know, via the ecosystem that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has and when we look at the quarter here, growth of about 38 percent.

Although this rally can definitely continue over the short - term, I think over the long - term intermediate bonds are probably a better bet for a lower risk portion of the portfolio.

Richard Russell of Dow Theory Letters (www.dowtheoryletters.com) has noted, rightly I think, a break in the Dow below its July low of 10,175.64 would be a significant event in terms of market action as well as sentiment.

So it's better to think about changes in commodity prices in terms of the terms of trade than on the exchange rate.

The forecasts for some of these projects are good in the long term and I am told that their price will increase in the following years, so do your own research and buy if you think it is worth it.

6 «Wall Street greed» — prosecutors» preferred term for «people getting paid a lot of money at their investing jobs» — is probably a big part of it: Once you hear how much money Newman and Chiasson made, it's easier to think they were up to no good.

«As long as the maturities are spread out, and the interest cost is built into our content budgets, we think long - term debt is the best way for Netflix to finance the production of content.»

That framework's been in place since the early 1990s, we have hit the target over that 20 year period, the average inflation rate's pretty close to 2.5 per cent, so we regard that as successful by the terms of the definition that we set ourselves and I think that's made a big contribution to economic stability more generally and I don't think it's an accident that that period of fairly low predictable inflation has coincided with pretty good sustained growth in the economy.

«I think no deal is probably better for the longer - term because it continues this process of rebalancing and there is no rebalancing without pressure and pressure comes through lower oil prices, through tighter credit and we're seeing all of that playing out nicely,» he said.

A contrarian strategy means the fund's managers view periods of market volatility as an opportunity to build positions that they think have good long - term value potential.

HASTINGS: Well, the mistakes in Pure was that every time we had a significant error — sales call didn't go well, bug in the code — we tried to think about it in terms of, what process could we put in place to ensure that this doesn't happen again, and thereby improving the compWell, the mistakes in Pure was that every time we had a significant error — sales call didn't go well, bug in the code — we tried to think about it in terms of, what process could we put in place to ensure that this doesn't happen again, and thereby improving the compwell, bug in the code — we tried to think about it in terms of, what process could we put in place to ensure that this doesn't happen again, and thereby improving the company?

«I do think that the industry is off to a good start in terms of good behavior,» Allergan Chief Executive Officer Brent Saunders told investors here this week during J.P. Morgan's annual healthcare conference, the largest industry meeting of the year.

I might argue (especially if I've had a good glass of wine in me first) that in a well - thought out process, what you're calling «buying» cycles should already match your «sales stage» cycles — so that really you and I are just discussing semantics in terms of segmentation....

They point to an article that you wrote in March, I think, of 2012 in Policy Options, where you basically said, dirty oil, the tar sands it's called, dirty oil and the future of our country, where you argue that the development of the, as you use the word, tar sands, it's become a political term, by the way, as you know, is basically not necessarily good for the country, in fact it takes jobs away in the manufacturing sector of Ontario.

, the best way to avoid any emotional hemming and hawing is to think of your compensation strictly in terms of business.