Sentences with phrase «year books for»

TB: For UK I do have something too, actually rather fine stuff, but what strikes me is: How come I have had no luck finding meteorological year books for the UK?

I can't tell you how many times I've browsed my parents highschool year books for inspiration.

Not exact matches

For example, I clump most of my necessary phone appointments during a month into one day and book my Phone Day in each month a year ahead.

To be sure, * The Magic of Thinking Big * was not written strictly for entrepreneurs — I'm not sure the word was well - known in the 50s... but applying the principals from this book has contributed to the enormous growth my public relations agency has enjoyed each year of our existence.

To my eternal regret, I wrote an article for Fast Company a few years back saying that business books were the new business cards.

«The anniversary has already opened old wounds for Camilla, people are being reminded of the fact that she was instrumental in ending this marriage that was described as a fairy tale,» said Morton, who has released a revised version of his book to mark 25 years since its release.

Last year, Paul English, a co-founder of the travel booking site Kayak — which Priceline bought for $ 1.8 billion in 2012 — looked at his calendar.

I read this book well after I started my business, but I think the hardest lesson for entrepreneurs to grasp is that in order to give your business the best chance for success, you need to reinvest the profits for at least the first year.

It was «a year for the record books.»

'» It became known as the «Frisbee speech,» and for years it gave foreign acquirers confidence the government wouldn't throw the book at them if they failed to live up to their promises.

If you're looking for book suggestions to fill your reading list this year, you could do a lot worse that follow the blog of Microsoft - founder - turned - philanthropist Bill Gates.

«For years, I've been saying Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature was the best book I'd read in a decade,» writes Gates, who is clearly a long - time Pinker fan, but he continues, «his new book, Enlightenment Now, is even better.»

Under the Post 9/11 GI Bill, any veteran who has served for three years after September 11 is eligible for full tuition reimbursement, in addition to a book and living stipend to attend school.

Willink has been retired from the SEALs for seven years now, and passes on his philosophy of discipline through his leadership consulting firm Echelon Front, his podcast, and books.

But for bookworms, the true highlight of the season might just be the avalanche of «best books of the year» lists.

Dubbed the best business book of the year last year by The Financial Times and McKinsey, this one by a Pulitzer - Prize winning journalist looks at what happened to Janesville, Wisconsin when a General Motors factory that had been operating in the town for 85 years closed.

I've been working with, and marketing for, small businesses for many years, and let me tell you — this book has it all.

Over the years, the acronym has become a sort - of mantra for the famed Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers venture capitalist, who more recently turned it into a book (Measure What Matters; Portfolio, $ 14) he describes as «my love letter to our future.»

The event's world - class speakers also regularly recommend books for further reading from the stage, and this year's event, held recently in Vancouver, British Columbia, was no exception.

The process for writing a book is almost the same as it was 50 years ago, except you type on a computer instead of a typewriter now.

Charlie «Tremendous» Jones, a business leader and motivational speaker, once said «You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.»

The Canadian mining sector has been in people's bad books for years, while energy shows few signs of rebounding after brutal performances in both 2014 and 2015.

According to Jaunted, trips aboard «Triumph» can already be booked for as early as April of this year.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

Fujifilm said it would book restructuring costs of 49 billion yen ($ 450.95 million) in the second half of the fiscal year through March, lowering its operating profit forecast for the year to 130 billion yen from a previous 185 billion yen.

Although the incident comes at the height of the busiest time of the year for cruise bookings, a period known as Wave Season, travel agents weren't bracing for a downturn in business Monday, in part because the incident had yet to get major publicity, said Mike Driscoll of Cruiseweek, an industry newsletter.

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

By 8:30 a.m. (the time I usually ended up rolling out of bed), I had read several chapters of a good business book, listened to part of a podcast, spent time in prayer, done some P90X Yoga, and worked on a side - project that I'd been «too busy» to work on for years.

We also pay our employees to attend one local and one remote conference every year, and offer to pay for learning materials such as books, online courses and workshops.

In two moves last year, the company lopped $ 2.9 billion off Safeway's book value — half what it paid for the business.

The company booked revenue of $ 125.1 million for the year ending January 2017, and loss of $ 105.3 million.

On that note, we've opened our books for five years running to a third - party auditor, and they checked our debits and credits, and we had five consecutive clean financial audit opinions.

For the past two years, I've explored that question in researching my forthcoming book, EQ, Applied.

If you want to be the best, and there's no reason you shouldn't, you need to be striving for that 50 - books - per - year goal.

But within a few months, I had a great job, doing pretty amazing stuff and that all led to me writing books, traveling the planet and have a great life - for the past 20 years.

While more people booked travel on Southwest in the third quarter, fares on average were lower than they were a year earlier, especially for last - minute bookings.

A book a week, for 30 years, would be 1,560 books - doesn't seem like that much does it?

Though tourism numbers were (again) at record highs, up 23 % for the first nine months of 2013, further violence would certainly jeopardize bookings for the rest of the year and in 2014.

In that first year at Reed, Jobs also read «Diet for a Small Planet,» a book about protein - rich vegetarianism that went on to sell three million copies.

«My brain ended up deciding that instead of trying to avenge my son's life, I wanted to give life as a result,» says Gawdat, who published his book Solve for Happy in January of this year and has given several talks on the subject through a campaign he launched to make 10 million people happy.

In 2014, the Guinness Book of World Records gave her an award for Longest TV Career for an Entertainer (female), for her, at that point, 70 years in the industry.

Halfway through last year, Jason Kint of the advertising trade group Digital Content Next looked at the total ad revenue booked by those two companies as a proportion of the overall industry, and found that they accounted for about 90 % of all the growth in the business.

Author and London Business School professor Lynda Gratton, along with her coauthor, Andrew Scott, had a simple premise in mind for their 2016 book, The 100 - Year Life: What is going to happen to us all, when everyone starts living to 100?

One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, «The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People» has captivated readers for 25 years.

Just a few years ago, self - publishing (a.k.a. «vanity publishing») was an embarrassing last resort for writers unable to secure a «real» book deal.

Diversified miner Independence Group has booked a $ 58.8 million net loss for the 2016 financial year, on the back of acquisition costs and lower commodity prices.

Going gluten - free has become something of a fad in recent years, with cookery books about «clean eating,» and myths being spread that wheat is bad for digestion.

As important as the difference to the world, that difference — if you act according to your values, as Thoreau did by living nearly alone for two years, for going to jail to oppose slavery, for self - financing his risky book venture, for resiliently taking on his next book — makes a difference to you, yourself.

The company has steeply discounted books for years and reaped low profits as a result, which has been its business strategy.

Take, for instance, Ryan Holiday's breakdown that shows how he's written three books in three years.