Sentences with phrase «who got me to this point»

Wasik was a former Dell exec who got to that point by selling Force10 Networks to Dell at a huge premium.

It's likely that you can look back at significant landmarks in your life and find each of them include people behind the scenes who got you to that point — the youth worker who wouldn't leave you alone, the family friend who became a parent, the sports coach who went the extra mile.

As a doula, I feel empowered by the women I've worked with who got me to this point.

This point is usually a bit of a make or break point for some of my peers - I have known a number of bloggers who got to a point where the love of it changed and they found something else, retiring their blogs.

In my experience most clients, other practitioners and judges appreciate somebody who gets to the point rather than waffling on.

A tough, straight talker who gets to the point right away, Kyla Lee has particular knowledge and skills in defending drinking driving charges.

Not exact matches

The point is that businesses need to be more transparent and come clean with customers about how their data is used — and who it's getting handed off to.

And while Denton might get along famously with Epstein, Mr. Vekselberg is still an unknown commodity who may, at some point, decide to exert some muscle on Gawker.

I work well under pressure, and my brain's gotten to a point where it will only give me an idea while I'm talking it out with my best friend, who's my makeup artist.

It got enough attention to the point where founders who were starting to deal with regulatory problems started coming to us, and that allowed us to create a new approach to venture.

New developments would allow connected cars to link up with smart city infrastructure to create an entirely different ecosystem for the driver, who is simply used to the traditional way of getting from Point A to Point B.

We received several sales inquiries after the article ran, and the article was also a point of pride for our staff who worked so hard to get us to where we are today.

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

Judging types (J) need closure — like the colleague who's always pushing you to get to the point in meetings.

Elza Seregelyi, director of L - SPARK, points out that a «fatal flaw in (a) founding team (is when) founders who are self - aware may successfully get help to overcome a gap or conflict in a certain area, but those who are blindly one - sided (e.g., too technical or lacking domain expertise) or dysfunctional as a team will be unable to execute.»

Most businesses get stuck at a growth inflection point, requiring knowledgeable managers who can push growth to the next level.

«We discussed how to get around filing FARA and I was uncomfortable at that point,» recalled Torossian, who has advocated more uniform foreign - lobbying disclosure requirements.

My point here is that people are getting lazy when it comes to communicating and I see that as an opportunity for those of us who are prepared to do the work.

We point to business and policy uncertainty, people are still unsure as to who has their hands on the steering wheel... People have got to start believing in the real economy and I don't think we have that belief yet.»

Perhaps the point of contact you despise leaves and is replaced by someone who's more pleasant to work with, or, better yet, the person you do enjoy working with gets a better gig at a competitor and sways his or her new company to hire your firm.

We've all heard the speaker who takes too long to get to the point.

It becomes an objective in itself, when the real point should be to get money into the hands of people who are going to do something with it.»

That last point, Lemonis insists, is essential: The best addition to your team is someone who's going to reliably get things done, as opposed to making promises.

«Even for the patriotic, diehard Canadian who insists on their startup being in Canada, in many cases the company gets to a point where it's forced to sell to a U.S. big tech firm,» said Pashootan, portfolio manager at First Avenue Advisory in Ottawa, a Raymond James company.

«You could find anything else on the internet, but you couldn't get from point A to point B using non-air transportation,» says Raygorodskaya, who's now 31.

After my traditional line of questioning and selling the great points about the career ahead for anyone lucky enough to get this position, I launched into my full disclosure and she sat staring at me like one does a child who is walking a fine balance atop a 4 - foot brick wall — with anticipation, excitement and a heaping does of sheer shock and wonder all mixed together.

At this point, those who had Eagles -9 had been gifted a miracle push, and an extra point could get them a win, while other bettors who had taken Philadelphia at -10 needed the extra point to salvage their bets.

«The point of this bill in those states that get a waiver to do what they need to do to make it work better in their particular states has support exactly for that very person who, if, in the course between a year, get extra aid for support for pre-existing conditions,» Ryan explained, citing what he said were successful examples in Wisconsin and Maine.

Says Diamond, «The high point of my career is getting thank - yous from the littlest shelters, the ones that can't do anything to help me, but I know I have helped people who truly are doing what they can for animals.»

At one point, his computer server started choking on too many ads, slowing to «a chug, chug, chug,» says Davis, who had to spend an unexpected $ 500,000 to get his systems up to consumer - friendly speed again.

Unlike many executives who never seem to get to the point, comedians have to get to the point quickly or else we lose the crowd!

Wickersham points to an example when the Patriots played the Los Angeles Chargers this season, and instead of hitting a downfield target, Brady threw over the middle to receiver Chris Hogan, who got hit immediately and injured his shoulder.

There you tend to get into who lost and gained a percentage point of market share.

«When people finally get to the point of coming to talk to me, it usually takes another six months for it to sink in that they have to file,» said Cara O'Neill, a legal editor with Nolo who also is a bankruptcy and litigation attorney in Roseville, California.

«Andrew got to the point where he could out - Jesuit a Jesuit,» Rev. James Martin, the author and editor - at - large of the Jesuit weekly America who was a consultant on the film, said in the Times article.

«I had to at some point get my sea legs as an entrepreneur,» said Webb, who added that the dispute over Sparkling Ginger was the first real argument in which she prevailed over Gurwitch.

Last are those who get wrapped up in the wishes, hopes, dreams, and «making people happy» mindset, and eventually they find themselves having invested so much time at Disney, that at some point, they no longer have the desire to leave.

Rather, the point is to flag IFSD's attempt to offer a fix for data junkies who get the shakes waiting for StatsCan releases.

Once she can start aggregating data from her patients with data from other doctors who are using the app, she will have a huge number of data points that she can use to track everything from the efficacy of the surgery in certain patient populations, to which doctors might get the best outcomes.

When people who know I love surfing ask how to get started, I just point them to Kohner's wonderful photos.

That point was reinforced just after the build concluded when a mother who lived at the development came over as volunteers were cleaning up and said she hadn't been able to get out of work to help build, but throughout the day she received pictures from her kids who were watching the build happen with growing excitement.

Ultimately, when you get down to it, the Capital One Venture card is good for those people who are really, honestly casual travelers, who don't necessarily want to worry about transferring points out to travel partners and just send a simple way of redeeming their points.

Borrowers who chose a loan with a shorter repayment term in order to get the lowest interest rate and maximize overall savings reduced their interest rate by 1.71 percentage points and will pay $ 18,668 less over the life of their new loan, on average.

«Canadians may still get the odd piece of spam, but the point of this is to go after the people who make a living out of spamming Canadians,» Mr. Enwright said.

All I knew at that point was that I was out of work and had a lot of friends who told me they were making three to five thousand dollars a week and I wanted to get into the business.

It must get to the point where evryone who has been taken by the banks and finds out they are terminal, takes out one banker at the top that they feel has taken way more than his share of the pie.

Mr. Cummins later dismissed that criticism back in April in an interview on Public Eye Radio stating, «I guess that's what you'd expect a lobbyist to say who may be looking to get some government money at this point.»

Providers will make it a point to give the necessary aid to help these programs run full speed ahead and guarantee that these projects get to run out smoothly, as in general, nonprofit organizations are similarly insured as those who are in the private sectors, there are just some particular needs, ideals and requirements that they have to accomplish for them to be able to provide the necessary policies for those who work within their businesses.

Getting to know the competition is a good starting point for figuring out who your potential customers are.

There are some analysts who believe that Chairman Powell and his colleagues on the FOMC may try to get ahead of the curve and increase rates by more than 25 basis points when the Fed next moves.