But how about the time you asked for a raise, took on responsibilities beyond your experience or cold called that new business prospect?
Prospects are essentially ruling competitors in or out before first contact, often before the business knows the prospect even exists.
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Coming home to set up his own business was a prospect that he felt did not seem so realistic in the past.
For even a casual reader of the Japanese business pages, that prospect still seems fanciful.
For this business owner, the prospect of higher taxes is providing an incentive to try a little harder and be a little more productive in order to maintain the same after tax level of earnings, lifestyle and wealth.
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The prospect of forgoing business school in favor of real-world accomplishments is scary for many new college graduates.
It seems absurd to listen to EchoStar claim hardship from the prospect of losing business it never earned in the first place.
In the first article, I allowed that it can be exciting for business leaders to imagine a global prospect base of more than seven billion people.
Over time a business environment has been developed in which entrepreneurs are revered and the idea of starting your own business is an accepted and encouraged prospect.
Many are run by retired nurses lured back to work by the prospect of owning their own business.
Far more likely to pull talented French people back home than Britain's economic doldrums is the prospect of France becoming more business-friendly.
Although India is one of Sony's best regions, Michael Grindon, who runs the international side of the business for Mr Feltheimer, views the prospect with equanimity.
To the extent the federal money is spent on needed highways and bridges, or other items that serve the public at large and thereby reduces the barriers to doing business, there is at least the prospect of additional economic activity.
That's an attractive prospect to any company making its business providing consumers with tools to communicate on the Web.
Despite the fact that application of the business death penalty has been relatively rare the prospect has scared investors and businesses out of the state.
This is music to the ears of Sir Colin Chandler, chairman of Vickers, who shares French nervousness at the prospect of a land-systems business dominated by Germany.
And I think that the other thing that happened is that when I won election in 2008, one of the reasons I think that people were excited about the campaign was the prospect that we would change how business is done in Washington.
The technology implementation behind social business, by comparison, is far easier a prospect.
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After you have found the perfect prospect and have become familiar with their business, it becomes time to reach out.
So the prospect of banks in northern Cyprus gaining business, while the financial system in the Republic of Cyprus is in disarray, is a tempting one.
This is the prospect that any and every aspect of your business might go viral on YouTube.
The Street continues to get all tingly at the prospect of Apple potentially jumping into the television business.
The business lobby, naturally, is particularly alarmed by the prospect of a default.
With no prospect of credit to enable them to stay in business, and no one prepared to accept their letters of credit, many companies have nothing to repay their loans with.
If Mittal wins its bid for Arcelor, it has undertaken to sell Dofasco to the German firm, perhaps not relishing the prospect of absorbing two new firms into its existing business.
Names of people, associations and corporations will be left alone for now, which is a good thing because most foreigners would be hard-pressed to associate Hyeondae with the venerable business giant that builds cars and ships. (The prospect of changing the passports of all those Kims isn't particularly inviting either.) The exemption isn't permanent, however.
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For Sir Martin, the prospect that he would not be able to run the business he was buying for a chunky premium was untenable.
That means he is turning his back on the kinds of large-scale seismic testing used to prospect for elephant fields--a high-margin business dominated by Schlumberger.
If you find the prospect of going full out on both the job and the business too daunting that you never get started, then forget this suggestion and go for slow growth.
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The prospect of tens of thousands of new jobs and a new business sector is often the focus of the buzz, but Smiertka said the benefits of Michigan as the next major transportation and logistics hub go far beyond the state itself.
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