Sentences with phrase «years of doing business»

And btw, Years of doing business do not necessarily equate to knowledge.

4) Look, give Buffett some credit here — after so many years of doing business and trusting his managers, he has one blowup from a fellow who is temperamentally hotter than most of his managers.

The company only sells roughly about 300,000 units of e-readers in the first few years of doing business there.

After 25 years of doing business in this country, Subaru has succeeded in selling vehicles only in a few markets, especially the Northeast, where heavy snowfall has made its lineup of all - wheel drive vehicles popular, and in import - oriented California.

The struggling Japanese automaker has never really had a strong presence in the United States.After 25 years of doing business in this country, Subaru has succeeded in selling vehicles only in a few markets, especially the Northeast, where heavy snowfall has made its lineup of all - wheel drive vehicles popular, and in import - oriented California.

I'd order the vehicle and he never in all the years of doing business with them ever asked for deposit or down payment until the vehicle arrived for me to take delivery.

So did the roughly half of U.S. business owners who shut down their companies within the first five years of doing business.

Stunned, the franchisee continued: «I have never, ever heard an American say that in my 40 years of doing business with Americans.»

Fourteen months after the Chengdu launch, that market was already 100 times bigger for Uber than San Francisco was after a year of doing business there.

Sarah: As we move toward our 10th year of doing business, we thought it would be a good idea to revisit all of the reasons why we share the crafts and activities that we do, and why we adore the nature focused, imagination inspired goods that we sell in the shop.

Every year of life brings new challenges, but every year of doing business with you also brings new pleasures, as we get to know each other better and continue to support each other's enterprises.

We are in our 35th year of doing business in the great state of Alaska.

Not exact matches

To start, he needed both people and funds — futuristic home doodads don't invent themselves — so he secured $ 12.5 million in subordinated debt financing from the Business Development Bank of Canada and Quebec's Fonds de solidarité FTQ, with flexible five - year payment terms (the latter a reward for years of solid financial management).

If half of businesses fail in the first five years, what are the other half doing right and what can entrepreneurs learn from them?

Businesses with more than 50 employees that do not offer coverage will be taxed based on the size of their payrolls, but the cost will be significantly less than the cost of providing insurance benefits, and the tax is not set to go into effect until the 2014 fiscal year.

The Small Business Success Index, as it's called, is the third in a series of surveys the pair have done over the past year.

Beyond this sense of optimism, seven out of 10 business owners said they fared the same or better than they did a year ago in the fourth quarter.

Every dollar counts for business owners, so if you don't know where you stand on a monthly basis, you may not be around at the end of the year.

There is always a long list of to - dos for a business owner, however, it's essential to check off these three resolutions for a strong start to the New Year.

Having done more deals in more businesses than I can count, I've got a few simple rules that have saved me tons of money, helped me dodge more than a few bullets, and added a few years to my life.

What we in the West definitely don't know is the current location of Bo or Wang, what repercussions will be felt by Bo's powerful allies in politics, business and the military (the Financial Times reported May 14 that Bo's mentor and standing committee member Zhou Yongkang had been relieved of his duties as head of China's police, courts and spy apparatus), and who is going to lead China for the next 10 years, let alone what their policy leanings may be.

You can't justify spending the hundreds of hours over a year or more, away from your business to do it right.

As I have repeatedly said over the years, I do not believe that the overwhelming majority of advisors - be they wirehouse, hybrid, independent or RIA - have gotten into this business because they want to work against their clients.

Only time will tell if Under Armour can return its shoe business to the growth of a year ago, but it doesn't bode well that such a young category for the company is already struggling.

All these tweaks and improvements are great, but they'll only be of minimal value to you and your business in the coming year if you don't also actually get in the habit of putting out compelling content.

«What we do know is that this year quite a lot of businesses are saying «it's business as usual».

I was at a conference for technology CEOs a couple of years ago, and a former head of Canada's civil service said the government has done all of the policies right, and now it's time for the business community to step up.

So Biderman, — the self - described «King of Infidelity» — who just last year told PROFIT 500 researchers that «there's no such thing as bad attention for our business» — did something that would be unthinkable to most entrepreneurs: He fired himself.

Sort of like people in the newspaper business, they'd like to go back to a day 20 or 25 years ago when the internet didn't pose any threat.

When you have years of experience running a business, as I do, you recognize patterns and can give good advice, even if you haven't been close to a specific company.

One of the best things we did for this business was spending four months in the Silicon Valley at Y Combinator program last year.

In the absence of decisive, quick action to tackle this slow - motion crisis, the best - case scenario for the next few years is that America becomes a much riskier place to do business.

«Encouraging people to shop small just one day out of the year does nothing to help my business grow.

«Years ago when I was very young,» recalls Taffer, the host of TV show «Bar Rescue» and a former business owner, in a recent interview with Business Insider, «a VP of Hyatt looked at me and said, «You look, but you don't see.»business owner, in a recent interview with Business Insider, «a VP of Hyatt looked at me and said, «You look, but you don't see.»Business Insider, «a VP of Hyatt looked at me and said, «You look, but you don't see.»»

He does have 30 years of experience in the base metals business.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company will likely enter the grid services business eventually, and its acquisition of SolarCity last year gave it even more tools and motivation to do just that.

She does often win (she is second in WTA earnings this year, though a far - off second) and she has been praised for her careful management of her businesses and her brand image.

According to the Small Business Administration, the number of startups funded by VCs in 2012 was an abysmal 300 of the approximately 600,000 new businesses started in the U.S., that means 99.95 percent of entrepreneurs did not gain access to VC for their new businesses that year.

If Trump doesn't live up to his deal - making promises we could face another four years of legislative stalemate — which for many businesses may not be such a bad thing either.

If the company has a 20 - year track record of awarding business to Company X, there really isn't much that you can do to steal that business away.

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.

But because many of these multinationals do most of their business outside of Portland, the actual dollar amount deducted for the tax would be miniscule: the city estimates it will generate about $ 2.5 to $ 3.5 million per year from this initiative.

Tim Interesting comments - the miners [and speaking as a miner] have seemed to get it wrong and done so many times over many years resulting in increased cyclic behaviour of their businesses.

But the first lesson of business school is to tap into your natural network, and veterans, who have often spent years overseas cut off from regular society, often don't have the contacts they need to make the transition into civilian business.

When you think about conventional management thinking and practices in a dog - eat - dog, transactional business world, not enough leaders spend the time to do what Watson had to learn over his many years at Chevron: Getting results through the people and relationship side of the business.

My view on that, having been in sales for many years, is that if you have a client who will take their business elsewhere simply because you aren't accessible every second of the day, either you are doing something seriously wrong or you need to find new clients in a hurry.

The beginning of a new year for many means a new opportunity to review some things your business is currently doing and decide where you can make adjustments or changes.

With the rush of prepping for the end of the year, taking stock of goals, and managing the to - dos and emotions of the holiday season, the end of year can be a tough time for business owners and employees.

The most useful mental models and rules of thumb, in other words, are often dead simple, which is why an interview Adam Bryant of The New York Times did with Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston earlier this year is so helpful (hat tip to Business Insider for the pointer).

Seth Godin has been a man I've looked up to and respected for his big brain thinking and sense of fearlessness in the way he does business for many years.