Sentences with phrase «with about a great deal»

Three months later, I am approached by a wholesaler I do business with about a great deal that must close in 2 weeks.

Not exact matches

One way to escape the bubble and see what's really going on in an organization is to develop relationships with line employees, including manufacturing workers and salespeople who know a great deal about the company's interactions with the outside world.

When they said, «This is just the beginning, so give us a great deal on this one and then we'll pay full price on the future stuff,» I retorted with, «Boy, multiple opportunities sounds wonderful, and we'd be very excited about that — so excited, that if you pay full price for the first one, I'll give you increasing discounts on the following projects.»

One of the great things about transitioning from the executive world to the non-executive world across a different range of organisations is that you encounter different experiences and issues to deal with.

Talk about a great deal: «We're in a position where we can use that tax savings to start taking bigger risks,» says Cheryl Volkman, co-founder of AbleNet, based in Roseville, Minn., a 100 % S corp ESOP with $ 8 million in sales.

In most deals with convertible notes or value - added co-investors who «want into the round» the negotiation re-opens after the term sheet and this is a source of frustration at a point where the founder and the lead investor should be feeling great about each other.

Amazon cloud execs can sometimes seem a tad sanctimonious when they talk about how their business goals completely align with the greater customer good, but one thing that Andy Jassy said Wednesday resonates, especially in light of reports later that day that Dell is considering a purchase of EMC in what would be a massive $ 50 billion deal.

Asking a candidate to do something or share what they have done reveals a great deal about how they interact with others and what thought processes and trade - offs they make to get the job done.

«You look at what Trump says about America First, and most of it is very international in character and has a great deal of continuity with, say, US national security policy under Clinton, Bush, and in many ways even under Obama,» he says.

While there has been a great deal of buzz about open floor plans and unassigned workspaces, most organizations provide employees with a large degree of autonomy concerning where and how they work.

However, the company has not changed its perspective about speaking directly to members of the Great White North Franchisee Association, preferring instead to deal with a 19 - member franchisee board that meets regularly with head office.

Indeed, there is still a great deal of complacency on the sentiment side, with only about 30 % of investment advisors bearish and the CBOE volatility index not even reaching 28.

The former, which consists only of the five Arctic states with direct borders on the Arctic Ocean — Canada, Denmark (Greenland), Norway, Russia, and the United States — primarily deals with oceanic issues.74 Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu even complained in 2015 about non-Arctic states using their military and economic power to «strive for greater roles in the Arctic,» 75 which likely was an implicit reference to China.

Its initial $ 1.8 billion fund — that was met with great fanfare when it was raised by rockstar investor Roger McNamee, rockstar gaming executive John Riccitiello and actual rockstar Bono — is about 70 % invested and the two biggest deals are duds.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

While there's a great deal of variation across individual market cycles, that's roughly the historical average for a 5.25 year market cycle: a 135 % gain, a 30 % loss, and a 65 % full - cycle return (about 10 % compounded annually, with the full - cycle return coming in at less than half of the bull market gain).

There has been a great deal of speculation about Elon Musk's relationship with President Trump.

And a great deal of excitement mixed with uncertainty about the technology's true potential and possible use cases.

It has a great deal to say about sex, all of which speaks against a concordat with the sexual revolution.

There is often a great deal of talk about opposing a sense of victimhood and entitlement — which most people in my neighborhood would probably agree with — but we must recognize that people are still being victimized by police brutality and other forms of trauma; they are entitled to both the basic necessities of life as well as opportunities to provide those and more for themselves.

And this concept was adhered to till Newton proposed his theory of gravity (in about 1680), which initially was met with a great deal of opposition (until Edmond Halley persuaded Newton to publish it in 1687).

The latter of course can tell you a great deal about how bricks bond with one another and how their juxtaposition, one against or on top of another, contributes to the formation of a wall, a corner, a tower, etc..

When we are dealing in general with the gradual development of the noosphere into planetary consciousness we must of course do full justice to the great, the essential part played by the other sections of the human race in bringing about the eventual plenitude of the earth.

We create Models from those observations and iterate towards the truth about the PHYSICAL universe Philosophy, like metaphysics and including religion, deals with the greater reality beyond the PHYSICAL universe.

The great flood — if you think about when the bible was actually written — it only dealt with that location — it wasn't a world wide flood.

There's been a great deal of commentary about the attempted assassination of Congresswaman Gabrielle Giffords and the deadly rampage that followed, with some eager to pin blame on pugnacious conservative rhetoric, and others denying the link.

Q.: One final question: coincident with the expanding frontiers in science, medicine and technology in the past decade, there also has been a great deal of discussion about a theology of hope.

And Carr and Whitehead spent a great deal of time with each other for about a year.

«One is felt by people who care a great deal about social issues, especially white evangelicals, who are uncomfortable with Mitt Romney.»

A true statement, «One is felt by people who care a great deal about social issues, especially white evangelicals, who are uncomfortable with Mitt Romney.»

Of course he was no literary artist, but only a humble clerk, not very familiar with Judaism or with the Old Testament; perhaps he had never seen Palestine in his life, but he had a good memory, and he had heard a great deal about that land, or rather about the Master who had lived and taught there.

Though Hartshorne has never given a great deal of attention in his writings to concrete religious phenomena, he has always been concerned about the religious significance of his work, He advocates the neoclassical conception of God partly because he believes it is more in keeping with religious experience than classical formulations of either theism or pantheism.

You may have great ideas about how to deal with people — which are better than how the Church currently deals with such things.

But he's speaking with the devil here about a great deal more than bread.

Most readers unobsessed with literalism find that these stories say very little about the mechanics of birth, but a great deal about the dimensions of faith in threatening circumstances.

I don't know if that definition is right or wrong, but I do know that it has a great deal to say, underneath, about the relationship between culture and spirituality, about what you do with what you are and why you do it.

They are teaching Christians a great deal about how to be engaged in compassionate work without treating those with whom we disagree as enemies.

I would agree with you when we're talking about adults, but we need to use great caution in dealing with any medical treatments for minors.

The familiar Hemingway conflict, we are told, deals with grace under pressure — or rather that's what the Hemingway hero strives for: he's the Good Sport and must play the game, not really caring whether he wins or loses but rather what the One Great Scorer (and this is about as close as Hemingway ever gets to the divine or even the cosmic) thinks of the game he's played.

These rightists appeal to the real anxieties of a great many Americans about some serious moral issues, but their prescriptions are not likely to help in dealing with those issues; moreover, they threaten other moral values.

Then we have looked at public prayer, saying a great deal about its congruity with human nature and human life and attempting to show that it is both a duty and a privilege for anyone who would call himself a Christian in any serious sense of the term.

Christians who ACTUALLY care about sinners would be dealing with the far greater number of Christian ADULTERERS who divorce and remarry according to the Bible.

When you are unable to support your ideas about the Universe with nothing more than a scribbled fantasy from the past, it says a great deal about your approach to life.

The opposition is between the view that the further back you go, you go to more and more rudimentary judgements and the view that there is a real difference between perception and thought; and also that you don't in perception come down to a (Kantian) inchoate manifold which you work up with conceptual schemes, but that you come down to something given in sense - awareness about which you can say a great deal more than that.

I strongly disagree with the political stances on most issues with the Republicans being targeted here, and I realize there's a great deal of moral hypocrisy within a Republican Party that pretends to care about God, but blames poor people for their poverty.

Without getting into a great deal of song and dance about a side topic, I'll just say that I believe our GDP growth would explode as companies rushed to establish operational headquarters in the US, and the changes in the individual income tax codes would have a chilling effect on both the Wall Street money churners (people would be rewarded for going long with their investments instead of shuffling money around to chase pennies) and the out - of - control executive compensation at the expense of the long - term health of the company.

But as we talked, I began to think that his ideas about the eleventh century may have a great deal to do with the once and future Times Square.

In my bones I know that this discipline has a great deal to do with Jesus» teaching about servanthood.

This is to say, so far, only that good poets can teach those concerned with intermediary theological reflection a great deal about how to form new contexts for old truths.

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