Sentences with phrase «wasting time»

In 2015, Dimon attended Fortune's Global Forum conference where he told attendees they were «You're wasting your time» with Bitcoin.

On Tuesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company's biggest event of the year, its F8 developer conference in San Francisco, by wasting no time addressing the elephant in the room: the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Feelings are ugly, gooey messes but if you ignore the emotions you end up wasting time and usually making matters worse.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who took the reins two months ago, isn't wasting any time helping Microsoft play some serious catch - up.

If you offer opportunities to someone who consistently fails to follow up, you'll soon stop wasting your time with this person.

You won't be wasting time consulting the wrong people whenever you want to launch a new project, or redesign an existing process.

It will save your reputation, and stop you from wasting time.

What's more, if you feel as though your current gig doesn't offer you what you're looking for now or in the future, then why are you wasting your time?

«I hate wasting time,» Leto said.

This is excellent advice, but what we often forget is that even if you know what the top 20 percent is, you still need to avoid the pitfall of wasting time on the remaining 80 percent of tasks.

Some of the businesses that are doing content marketing might be wasting their time and resources.

Learning this lesson early will prevent you from wasting time on the wrong people and give you more time to work with the best people you find.

It sounds simple, but considering the gadgets most people have in hand most of their waking hours, it's easy to thoughtlessly check out by scrolling social networks or wasting time online.

New year, same story: another New Year's resolution to «stop wasting time at work» that falls by the wayside come late January.

If you blast your message out to vast demographic groups at large, you're wasting time and money by targeting people who aren't — and never were — true prospects.

For instance, if an individual already has experience with a software program the company uses, there's no point in wasting time on retraining.

The speech prompted a response from the White House that left unclear whether Trump — who had tweeted that Tillerson was «wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man» (using a mocking nickname for North Korea's Kim Jong Un)-- had approved the shift in policy.

The most successful customer profiles are as detailed as possible and allow your marketers to make quick decisions about a lead's potential viability without your wasting time.

«I was watching very, very intelligent people wasting their time on tedious work.»

Said McCain: «I want America's smartest people creating jobs, not wasting their time, energy and capital navigating our incomprehensible tax laws.»

Agriculturally rich with a decent amount of oil, Vietnam is wasting no time to rapidly develop its manufacturing sector and move up the value chain.

If you are not following through and taking it seriously, then you are wasting their time and they are going to give up.

I've seen startups go through the long and painful process of re-branding — and trust me, you want to avoid wasting your time if you can help it.

There's no shortage of reasons, from wasting time in entirely unnecessary get togethers, to overlong scheduling, and meandering conversations.

Somehow, I still end up burned out, or wasting time on YouTube or chat.

Your goal is to increase conversions without wasting your time, without calling IT, without hiring an expert, and without losing your sanity.

Also, if you're able to find something through a friend of a friend, it takes away some of randomness, and you at least know you're not wasting your time with a scam.

Hammer Metals is wasting no time following up last month's exciting drill hits at the Jubilee copper - gold prospect near Mt Isa, with a second RC drill program set to get underway later this month.

This keeps your helper from wasting time on things you already know didn't work, Clift says, and keeps you from coming across as lazy.

If you thought database marketing was just wasting your time with fliers and mailing lists, take another look — at the Net.

Start being more focused: If you want to succeed, you have to stop being distracted by everything around you and be more focused in what you want to achieve, your distractions are wasting your time, and keeping from being focused.

If you think no agreement is possible, and that we may be wasting our time, perhaps we could disclose our thinking to some trustworthy third party, who can then tell us whether there is a zone of potential agreement.»

And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.»

This can be effective because employees can talk about what they accomplished the day before and what they plan to achieve today, without wasting time preparing a report.

«We're not wasting time talking to unqualified leads anymore.»

No one wants to see employees covering up their essential beliefs or wasting time hiding harmless bits of weirdness, but as Jarrett points out, quoting Shakespeare, it is worth keeping in mind that «all the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.»

Under former prime minister Stephen Harper's leadership, the group declared victory over the financial crisis too soon, wasting time in 2010 negotiating a pledge to narrow deficits and reduce debt that has since has been abandoned.

Five things you should do immediately in order to stop wasting time and start earning the real dinero:

Your clients are paying you, your advice and expertise, and if they're not accepting it, they're wasting your time and their money.

They stop partying, and they stop wasting time fantasizing about the future or reminiscing about the past.

You should understand that every single person has the ability to become successful, and wasting time focusing on other people's success or achievements will just sidetrack your own progress.

Being ready with this list of actions means you can take care of small tasks while waiting for an appointment to begin, for example, rather than wasting that time thumbing through Instagram pictures.

For example, say you wanted to imply that your coworker takes too many coffee breaks without actually accusing him wasting time at work.

Either way, you brought the buyer all the way through the sales cycle without wasting time or ruining a relationship.

My suggestion is that you only take advantage of the best opportunities and don't get stuck wasting your time with other not so relevant «early adopter» opportunities.»

Maybe you're measuring things that don't matter and wasting time and money doing that.

«Otherwise we would not be wasting our time with them.»

If people can't see how their problems could be solved by what you are providing, you may be wasting your time and resources.

But you are likely wasting your time, these journalists are probably too busy to respond to or even read unsolicited pitches.

The bottom line: Ask yourself regularly if you are wasting the time of already busy people.