Sentences with phrase «year guy in»

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What causes one person to shop with you for years, driving out of their way to get to you, while the guy across the street won't set foot in your door?

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.

«When you talk to guys who've been in this for 25 to 30 years, they're likening what's happening now to the»80s boom,» Segura says.

This time, it's the regimen of Robert Patrick, star of the CBS series Scorpion, the new film, The Last Rampage, and a guy (if you're my age) you probably first saw twenty - five years ago as the shape - shifting T - 1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Boire is the fourth guy in four years to lead Sears, which saw sales decline 9.7 % in the first quarter compared to the same period last year.

We're getting guys who do this over and over again, so if you look at the number of companies that have been bought in M&A over the last 20 years, it's something like 1,500.

Guy Cormier, a 24 - year veteran of the company, succeeded Monique Leroux in the top job in March.

It's an unfamiliar role for a guy who just a few years ago was trundling around town in a Lexus SUV.

What started as two guys in a San Francisco apartment in 2008 has grown to 150 employees, 20,000 restaurants available in 850 cities, more than 1 million visits to its website a month, and a projected $ 150 million in sales this year.

Entrepreneurs such as Daymond John, who many know as the guy on Shark Tank, worked for years in seeming obscurity.

Introverts (I) rely on their own internal wherewithal and pretty much keep to themselves — like the guy in accounting who's been there for years, although no one is quite sure what he does.

That's a terrible thing in America, where a guy who has been a company commander in Afghanistan or Iraq goes to try and get a job at a tech company, some 25 - year - old HR weenie asks them if they've ever had a real job.

Seven years later she's got a view from Nasty Gal's 10,000 - square - foot digs in downtown Los Angeles, boasting arched windows, high ceilings and droves of impossibly cool guys and gals.

So if a guy living inside a giant, high - tech tin can floating in the most hostile environment imaginable for a year can find the funny in his everyday life, certainly most of us can do the same despite our mundane professional challenges and personal annoyances.

How did a year cooped up with one other guy in cramped quarters affect Kelly?

«To everyone else at the Trump White House, I'll see you guys at the reunion in 10 years — seven with good behavior,» she said.

And if the bank continues to keep the ratio of its revenue paid as compensation lower than usual, it could result in savings of about $ 300 million for the company in the year, according to an estimate from Autonomous Research's Guy Moskowski in the bank's earnings call.

«When I was 22 years old, a guy who owned a little bodega in my neighborhood told me, «If you really want to start a company, you better dig under your couch for a couple of extra dollars, stop going out to dinner four times a month, trade in your car for a cheaper one, and raise that $ 40,000 or $ 30,000, if you can, by yourself.»»

«It's like I am being persecuted because of where I made a decision to invest my time and money for the past 40 years, and now I'm being labeled the bad guy, and grouped in with CEOs making millions of dollars a year.»

It may have started as a pop - up shop in a ramen restaurant, but today Boba Guys operates a chain of tea shops — and premiered on this year's Inc. 5000 at No. 229.

Ten years from now, who will fly in the private jet — you or the guy next to you at the trade show?

«This is not something a guy who's making $ 100,000 a year, who's got a mortgage and two kids in college ought to be invested in.»

James Hahn, who won his first PGA TOUR event last year, was looking for an edge when he jumped to PXG in January: «I didn't feel the need to switch (from TaylorMade) but a small part of me was thinking, «I can't compete with a guy who hits 30 yards longer than me and one or two clubs longer than me.»

I had a few nerdy money guy rules that we discussed to ensure this mortgage was obliterated in less than five years:

My formal training is law, MBA, but I've been working in the technology industry for 20 years now, so I've taught myself technology and certainly surround myself with guys who are very knowledgeable about the technology industry.

A legion of Canadian corporations recently acquired new CEOs: Guy Laurence joined Rogers (which owns this magazine) last December, one month after BlackBerry brought in turnaround artist John Chen to fix its ailing smartphone business; at TD Bank, Bharat Masrani spent a year (some might say his entire career) preparing to take over for Ed Clark, while across the street at CIBC, internal candidate Victor Dodig was given just six weeks before he replaced Gerald McCaughey.

I became a real guy in those years, instead of a dreamer,» Laberge says.

But so far, it's hard to imagine that this earnest red - haired guy with 36 years at the company is a secret revolutionary in a plaid jacket.

One of the reasons I wrote this book is, I spent 21 years coaching one of the most brilliant guys in the world who never loses money.

Keep in mind that Ackman is the guy who successfully pushed for changes at J.C. Penney after becoming the Texas - based retailer's largest shareholder last year.

For a guy who has made his share of missteps over the years, he does a very impressive job of staying in the lines.

In the last three years, we've seen Tandem Expansion Fund and now OMERS Ventures step into that void as Canadian technologically - focused growth equity guys.

«I got the first piece of advice when I was 22 years old, from a guy who owned a little bodega in my neighborhood.

«The guys and gals Boyden acquired are best of breed,» says Mark Surrette, a former Halifax - based Odgers partner with more than 30 years in the business.

There's a guy in my office I've worked with for years, but I still don't know his name.

The things you guys are going to learn about at Def Con today — you know, often people are like, «Oh, well, in a year this is going to be a big deal for everybody» — well, it's quite possible what you're learning about at Def Con today was a problem for us six months ago.

On the worst days of the year, he's in the field beside his guys — and it motivates them all to work that much harder.

«In 10, fifteen, twenty years, you guys will be the one's running the industry.»

While you might not be able to pull off in the same year paying cash for BOTH the $ 85 million pièd a terre in Manhattan that Russian guy bought for his daughter, AND the $ 150 million megayacht of the Sultan of Dubai, you'll be in pretty good shape.

His preference for Summers comes from two years of working with the guy every single day and two more years in which they were routinely in touch.

In the spring of 2000, I went into my local brokerage firm and said to these guys: ««Why did I only make 12 percent last year, when other people are making 40 percent.»

RITHOLTZ: Let's talk a little bit about you guys hanging your shingle in 1980, really the final innings of a 16 - year bear market; how did you guys have the nerve to launch into that environment and how did you get clients?

O'Reilly: Actually, on that note, did you guys hear that Fox ordered from Seth MacFarlane — it's going to come out in a year or two — a live - action comedy space exploration show.

In that scenario, by the time its next big TV deals come up in a few years, the TV networks will be less willing to pay top dollar for sports, because audiences will keep melting away — and the digital guys won't show up to replace the TV guyIn that scenario, by the time its next big TV deals come up in a few years, the TV networks will be less willing to pay top dollar for sports, because audiences will keep melting away — and the digital guys won't show up to replace the TV guyin a few years, the TV networks will be less willing to pay top dollar for sports, because audiences will keep melting away — and the digital guys won't show up to replace the TV guys.

In some way it would've been depressing to find out about these guys 10 years before you are ready yourself, and you see how other people achieved this already.

In Fort McMurray - Wood Buffalo, four - term MLA Guy Boutilier, who crossed the floor to the Wildrose in 2010 after sitting for 12 years as a Progressive Conservative MLA, was unseated by municipal councillor Mike AlleIn Fort McMurray - Wood Buffalo, four - term MLA Guy Boutilier, who crossed the floor to the Wildrose in 2010 after sitting for 12 years as a Progressive Conservative MLA, was unseated by municipal councillor Mike Allein 2010 after sitting for 12 years as a Progressive Conservative MLA, was unseated by municipal councillor Mike Allen.

«One strong indicator of who Guy is as a person and as a fair - minded and effective business leader is that people who partnered or invested with him years ago, in some cases all the way back to 1981 with Chauvco Resources, keep coming back to invest with him again,» says Mike Tims, member of the DBLA selection committee and past recipient (2007).

I can tell you for sure that people on parties will be more interested in the guy who says «I have made $ 5,000 with Bitcoin in the last year» then your story of buying a share of Johnson & Johnson and have a very safe dividend that will be increased every year like the last 55 consecutive years.

A guy in his 50's facing retirement in fifteen years and risk averse, may choose 55 % stock investments and 45 % bond investments.

We have talked about Bitcoin before and again I'm far more interested and I'm on record for over a year saying that I'm more interested in the blockchain technology and the concept of it buying Bitcoin, to my own detriment, but I'm with guys like Druckenmiller — I can only trade what I understand.