Sentences with phrase «young thing in»

A bright young thing in Kent who wants to go into politics has two good options: join the Conservative Party, or leave Kent.»

I sat with a table of middle - aged bigwigs who are mentoring bright young things in the drinks industry and I... effervesced.

Not exact matches

I think the main thing I would tell any young actor is that you can't put your happiness in this business or any other business.

Last year, for example, the two biggest winners — in terms of viewership and online engagement — were Netflix's Stranger Things trailer and Budweiser's commercial, which featured a young adult Adolphus Busch emigrating from Germany.

So, I had this intuition when I was younger that we should do things faster — more intuitive, and more in a scientific way.

One thing that was important to Young was being closer to loved ones, so in 2014, Jenna and he moved their sons, now 8 and 10, from South Florida to the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Because disruptions are nothing new: We've seen dozens of them in recent years: A young entrepreneur has a big idea, shakes things up and emerges with a multi-billion dollar business that leaves people gaping, imitating, disbelieving and envying, all amid a dizzying swirl of emotions.

As Dave Hackenburg, who runs an industrial pollination services company in Pennsylvania, says, «If you start shortening lives of bees, just by a few days, young bees have to go to the field earlier, and the whole thing gets messed up.»

Help younger people understand how to keep things in perspective, enjoy the positives, and avoid being washed away by the negatives.

«It exposed us kids at a very young age to two things that are important,» Haroon said in a 2009 interview.

A few years ago he went beyond critique and created the Thiel Fellowship, which gives a US$ 100,000 grant to entrepreneurial young people who «want to build new things instead of sitting in a classroom.»

All young people can do is base their options on what the current health - care rules are today, said Carolyn McClanahan, both a certified financial planner and an M.D. «The number one thing young people need to do is continue to scream at the politicians to get some good health legislative policy in place,» said McClanahan, founder and director of financial planning at Life Planning Partners.

Paul Brody, the man who helped drive the effort to create a new architecture at IBM for connecting devices in the so - called Internet of things, has joined accounting and consulting firm Ernst & Young, known as EY, as the Americas strategy leader for the technology sector.

Even though some of the best talent working for small businesses these days is young and doesn't always see the value in things like healthcare or life insurance, business owners will be better able overall to attract and retain good employees by offering those benefits.

Here's another thing Aron likely understands about «frequent moviegoers» (which includes all age groups, not just young people): They account for 49 percent of all tickets sold in the U.S. and Canada but only 10 percent of the overall moviegoing population.

The only thing that surprised me, perhaps because I still think of him as the young Wonk - in - Chief of 20 years ago, is his appearance.

This is largely due to an information - rich internet that has allowed younger generations to re-discover things that have been left behind in our modern sea of mass - produced consumer products.

It's one thing to be a contingent worker in good times and when you're young; quite another in bad times when you're middle - aged... Indeed, America's startup businesses do need better access to credit.

Sometimes this has me scratching my head, and other times I'm in awe of these remarkable young people who are perched on the brink of accomplishing things never done before.

Because younger employees haven't been entrenched in «the way things are» for long, they'll bring something new to the table.

In addition to an outsourced CFO, the other perplexing thing about Zirtual is that, according to Donovan, it only had two board members: Donovan and Will Young from Tony Hsieh's Vegas Tech Fund (the company had five board seats, but only two were filled).

As a young man I did everything I could to scrape by without working and, since I didn't have much growing up, I wasn't really interested in material things.

Mayer left school at the age of 12 and stepped into the role of breadwinner at a young age, supporting his parents and four siblings by, among other things, collecting heavy scrap metal for resale during brutally cold Canadian winters in New Brunswick.

In this candid conversation, Shopify's Harley Finkelstein — one of the most influential and innovative young business leaders in Canada today — shares his experiences scaling Shopify from a scrappy startup to a world - leading provider of commerce solutions, covering, among other things, the key operational, strategic and culture components that differentiate truly great businesses from those that are merely gooIn this candid conversation, Shopify's Harley Finkelstein — one of the most influential and innovative young business leaders in Canada today — shares his experiences scaling Shopify from a scrappy startup to a world - leading provider of commerce solutions, covering, among other things, the key operational, strategic and culture components that differentiate truly great businesses from those that are merely gooin Canada today — shares his experiences scaling Shopify from a scrappy startup to a world - leading provider of commerce solutions, covering, among other things, the key operational, strategic and culture components that differentiate truly great businesses from those that are merely good.

But in 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis, we started noticing that young people were doing some awfully significant things, whether in the financial world (Meredith Whitney had just made her bold call against Citigroup), in the tech world (Facebook was beginning to crank into high gear), or in other industries (Kevin Plank's apparel upstart Under Armour was giving Nike a real run for its money).

One thing to know: Chen enters the Olympics undefeated this season, continuing his rise as the youngest and most dominant skater in the U.S. delegation.

But here at Inc. we've already assured them that you can be taken seriously as a bright young thing as an entrepreneur — in fact, research and anecdotal evidence suggests youth can actually work to your advantage.

But there's one easy, important thing you can do to settle in and become efficient in your new role, writes John D. Spooner, author of «No One Ever Told Us That: Money And Life Lessons For Young Adults»: Take an experienced employee out to eat.

The Navy showed me obedience and that's the thing that pushed me to realize the mistakes I had made in my young life at 19 - years - old and that I could do something with myself and become somebody,» he said.

While Google Glass is being touted as the next big thing in technology and much of the media has pulled out their pom - poms, here are a few reasons young entrepreneurs should wait to purchase the devic...

Jason Mendelson, director of legal services at Softbank Venture Capital in Mountain View, Calif., advises start - ups not to bother with EPLI on the premise that young companies have better things to spend their money on.

You could say that 2018 is still a young year and it's way too early to judge things, which is true, but the level of volatility in both stocks and bonds during February is making this year feel like we've lived through two full years already, and I think what the markets are signaling is more likely to be a sea change than a blip.

In a way, the acquisition brings things full circle for 20 - somethings Young and Ready Campbell.

«Young guys, especially those in their 20s, don't really go out to buy things, and they buy pretty much everything online,» she said.

If your company too is looking to find locations rich in potential young employees, you'll probably want to narrow things down, aiming not just for any old inner - city location but one that is the among the hottest for well - educated young people.

As a young employee, I was in a meeting with my superiors and that was the explanation I was given for why things were getting done a certain way, when it was obvious the status quo wasn't working.

On the other hand, more Republicans than Democrats say it's a bad thing to encourage young boys to play with toys or participate in activities typically associated with girls.

Some companies, such as PricewaterhouseCoopers and Cisco, are currently exploring formal reverse - mentoring programs that allow younger employees to train their older co-workers in things like social media and technology.

Often, the first thing anyone will ask you in an interview (when you're young) is where you went to school, even if you have work / internship experience that should trump it.

The phrase «social justice warrior» has become a pejorative, much as «PC culture» was mocked in the»90s — as if over-earnest young people are the worst thing.

«Young bankers and managers caught up in the momentum of markets do things no gray - hair would think of doing.

Meredith has built three companies in the fashion industry, launched B2B marketplace Shopthefloor.com, and created a charity to benefit young entrepreneurs called The Next Big Thing.

«It's Still Grayish»: A talented young coder living in Silicon Valley speaks with Alexis C. Madrigal about the one thing standing in the way of his success: his immigration status.

Demographics are indicating more university spaces becoming avaialble over next 8 years (already started in eastern Canada) as well as labour shortages for younger people (Foote) and generally better things ahead using same arguments by Dent.lt looks like we are headed for BOOM times which will really get going by 2020.

While young / first - steps content marketers can learn many things from their more mature peers, one of the most striking — and encouraging — observations about those in the early phase is that 71 % agree that their organization is focused more on building long - term relationships than on getting quick results from content marketing.

Welcome to Refresh — a new initiative by young people, for young people, to provide a free - market response to Britain's b iggest issues

Everyone in politics agrees on one thing: that the political centre ground, for two decades a fiercely contested battlefield, increasingly resembles No Man's Land.

«I think part of the thing I see missing in the space right now is that people who are first time entrepreneurs get very focused on raising the capital,» Young said.

In the long run, Brazil has several things working to its advantage: a young population, a large and growing middle class, stable democracy and abundant natural resources.

In a recent survey of young Americans, only about one - quarter of respondents said Facebook could be trusted to «do the right thing» most or all of the time

A lot of young people that I know in Beijing — high school and college students, young professionals, musicians, etc. — were horrified by the violence that occurred in Paris and very eager to express a real sympathy for Parisians, which they did in the ways that young people express themselves today, via smart phones, social media, and all the other things that wouldn't have occurred to me.