Sentences with phrase «who run big»

«If you speak to people that don't operate inside this world, whether it's people who run their own family budget or people who run small businesses or people who run big businesses they will say that may be the way it works in government but that is bizarre,» Cohen told Kramer.

Or to put it another way, the UK's continued membership of the EU is today more uncertain than it has ever been - and many investors and those who run big multinationals will hate that.

Now the lawyers who make the laws, the managers who run big pharma, and the doctors who prescribe the pharma are trained in expensive schools that teach a kind of token morality, (passed off as complete enough), whereby their chosen professions» wrongdoing is made somewhat obvious, but the practical teaching of powers for righting such wrongdoing is neglected, enfeebling them so that reforms and remedies appear impractically strenuous.

Well, they young guys who run BIG THINK (with, I hope, good reason) think of themselves as something akin to the founders of GOOGLE or YOUTUBE.

Someone who runs a big division of Facebook, she argues, may be just as knowledgeable as a higher - level executive elsewhere.

The directorial debut for famed writer Aaron Sorkin is Molly's Game, a riveting tale of a former almost Olympic skier, Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain) who ran the biggest high - stakes poker game in both Los Angeles and New York.

His godfather in Cleveland (who was also, Geraci gradually learned, the Godfather of Cleveland) had connected him with Tessio, who ran the biggest sports gambling operation in New York.

However, as subsidiaries of large media conglomerates, the executives who ran the big six had all been given their marching orders about the internet: DRM restrictions would be mandatory on all ebook sales, lest rampant piracy cannibalize their sales of paper books.

After all, who ran the biggest deficits?

Perhaps Mr. Carney doesn't remember that Bernie Madoff who ran the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, to the tune of 50 Billion dollars, once sat on the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.

If a man who runs the biggest social network on the planet said that, then we have to stop and think about it 100 + times.

Not exact matches

The only good news about the big guys is that there is another group of them (think AOL and Yahoo for starters) who are so lost, so behind the curve, and so desperate to deliver something for their shareholders that they are constantly running around and throwing money at the shiniest new things in a panic.

Jonathan Crandall, who runs J.C. Landscaping in Danvers, Mass., is a big believer in holding out for financing deals that pop up at the end of a model year.

Mervyn Kitay has been anointed as chief executive in waiting at Crowe Horwath Perth, Western Australia's eight biggest accounting firm, taking over from Geoff Kidd, who has run the partnership for the past 19 years.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

In 2016, Anthony Scaramucci, who was running the hedge fund, SkyBridge Capital, appeared on «Big Think» to speak about effective communication.

The run - up to the upcoming German election has begun with the second - biggest party announcing who will fight against Chancellor Angela Merkel.

«Even if Uber can get 10 percent of that market, in the long run that still gives them a revenue of $ 200 billion [a year], which will make them one of the biggest companies in the world,» says Sundararajan, who didn't divine when he thought this might happen.

But time is running out, according to some big name entrepreneurs, like Steve Case, founder and former chief executive officer of AOL, who spoke to Inc. in late May about immigration reform.

Comey added that the flaw, which is now believed to have been found by hackers who worked with the FBI, would only work on an iPhone 5c running iOS 9 — a relatively small slice of Apple's total iPhone users who have largely moved on to the bigger iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s lines.

23andMe is a seven - year - old company run by Anne Wojcicki, a biotech entrepreneur who is married to Google (GOOG) co-founder Sergey Brin, who is, in turn, a big investor in 23andMe.

Inside the story of Molly Bloom, the 26 - year - old who ran a private weekly poker game for some of Hollywood's biggest players.

Some of the biggest names on Wall Street are embracing the digital currency, including Fundstrat's Tom Lee and value investor Bill Miller, who is running a fund with nearly a third of its assets in bitcoin.

Bob Hoban, an attorney who runs his own cannabis law firm with clients in 17 U.S. states, says state - guaranteed insurance for California's industry is a big deal for businesses.

Indeed, adds Brady Forrest, who runs a startup accelerator in San Francisco, «There is a big difference between being a product and being a company.»

As a relatively small and unknown manufacturer in the big world of recycled materials, GreenMantra Technologies (No. 20) knew they needed to give their clients (who run the gamut from packaging to construction materials, paint, rubber and tire manufacturers) some peace of mind before convincing them to partner up.

I did a little homework and soon found the dental practice's website, and sure enough, there was a big smiling photograph of the man who nearly ran me down, and he was clearly identified as the Dentist and owner of the business.

«And when I look at my friends who are running other good companies, the single biggest difference that I see in whether the companies end up becoming really great and reaching their potential or just pretty good is whether they're comfortable and really self - confident enough to have people who are stronger than them around them,» Zuckerberg said.

«One of the biggest flaws with the UK set up is that it is based on self - reporting and Companies House (which runs the UK Corporate register) has limited resources to go after people who fail to provide information or provide incorrect information,» he said.

«The most excited group out there are big CEOs, about our tax plan,» says ex-Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn, who runs the National Economic Council in the Trump White House, in an interview with CNBC's John Harwood.

So here we have a big, lumbering guy weighed down with armor, who can't see much more than a few feet in front of his face, up against a kid running at him with a devastating weapon and a rock traveling with the stopping power of a.45 caliber handgun.

Of course, the Oracle doesn't worry himself with the day - to - day management of companies he owns; his biggest act of participation in four decades was in 2006 when he installed longtime Berkshire insurance man Brad Kinstler to run things after Chuck Huggins, who had been with the company 54 years and was CEO for 33 of them, retired.

«We have a Cannonball Award that goes to somebody who took a big risk and hit a home run,» says Regan.

Bill Gross, the legendary investor who once ran the world's biggest bond fund and now manages a portfolio at Janus, fanned the flames Tuesday.

McKelvey's biggest challenge has been the social and emotional journey of running a startup — but he takes comfort in knowing that there's someone down the block who knows how he feels.

«The big names in the industry are becoming increasingly monolithic,» says Jim Harmon, who ran Odgers» Ottawa office and is now Boyden's managing partner in Toronto.

Williams» first foray into entrepreneurship was conceiving a fast - food chain «Big Al's,» which was based on the character Al Molinaro who ran «Arnold's» on Happy Days.

One of Defy's biggest success stories is Coss Marte, a convicted drug kingpin who at one time made $ 2 million dollars a year running one of the New York City's largest drug rings.

The biggest potential snag is finding the right franchise partners; the people who will buy a local branch of your company and run it as their own.

«There has always been lots of books out there on how to run a big company,» says McFarland, who now runs his own consulting business, McFarland Partners based in Salt Lake City.

The plan has run into serious opposition from big shareholders, who think the company is worth more than Michael Dell and his partners have offered to pay.

For most people who work out in the gym or run outside for 30 minutes on dry days, this won't be a big deal, but if you're a concerned about moisture or want to run with your iPhone 6 or 6s (normal or Plus) in inclement weather, the TuneBand may not be for you.

Even our biggest retailers who get 80 to 100 cases run out in an hour.»

Then there was the supplier who asked if we could pay him a month early for a big production run, «just this one time.»

Troy Jones, who runs the website www.nukepills.com, said demand for potassium iodide soared last week, after Trump tweeted that he had a «much bigger & more powerful» button than Kim — a statement that raised new fears about an escalating threat of nuclear war.

In the lead - up to his dinner at the White House planned for Thursday night, Chinese premier Xi Jinping met with the people who really run things: Leaders of the world's biggest tech companies.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is seen as someone who shares Cohn's views, but he doesn't have quite the proximity of a presidential adviser and has his own big department to run.»

It's a big shift for Bannon, who just last summer proudly declared Breitbart, which he used to run, the «platform for the alt - right.»

And that's just another way of saying, «This joint runs great for those who can hire armies of lobbyists and lawyers and have them make big campaign contributions, but not here for real people.»»

The agency has toughened mortgage rules and fined big banks for allegedly taking advantage of consumers, but it has run afoul of Republicans who say it has gone too far, contributing to an environment in which consumers are having more difficulty getting mortgages and credit cards.