Sentences with phrase «by living a number»

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«An audacious company is one that measures its success or failure by the number of people whose lives are improved as a result of its work,» he told me.

As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

Naveen Jain's motto: «Success is not defined by the size of your bank account but by the number of lives you make a positive difference in.»

It's amazing the number of wildly successful women who, despite their hectic schedules, swear by setting aside a few minutes in the morning to consciously reflect on all that's good in their lives.

Those numbers were far diminished from what the show drew in its heyday, but they remain respectable by contemporary standards, with delayed viewing and increased competition applying downward pressure on live ratings across television.

A recent study by Accenture found that, for at least half of men and women, «work - life balance» is the number one determiner of whether or not they have a successful career.

Every important date in your life and even your personality are then determined by that single number.

But those numbers reflect life expectancy at birth and are dragged lower by people who die young.

A 2013 survey conducted near its Tasiast mine in Mauritania by local sociologists found that the number of households living below the poverty line had been cut by more than half since 2011 and the unemployment rate had declined from 47 per cent to 24 per cent.

As it is, 1,000 full - time employees in the United States and Canada surveyed by Virgin Pulse in 2015 rated work - life balance as the number one way companies can show employees they care; 40 percent said they wished their employers cared more about this balance.

Think about this number because the rest of your life will be determined by your decision to keep a percentage of your income today so as to always have money for yourself in the future.

Although Periscope has attracted a certain number of passionate users — and has been cited in the past by influential users such as Deray McKesson, one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement — it hasn't really achieved anything close to mainstream acceptance.

From an anecdotal standpoint, I've known a large number of successful people, most of whom earned it the hard way but some of whom were raised by wealthy families, and those who went further in their careers and were happiest with their lives were the former, not the latter.

We calculated the lifetime odds of death by applying 2014 life expectancy and population numbers in the US, and our analysis assumes each cause of death won't change drastically in the near future.

Not only do warmer waters cause bleaching of the living coral polyps that make up the mass, by leading them to expel the algae that give them color, but they have also led to an explosion in the numbers of a creature called the crown - of - thorns starfish.

«To get to your number, you need to determine how much income you think you'll need to live on each year, based on your retirement lifestyle goals, then multiply that by the number of years you expect to be retired, writes certified financial planner Matt Shapiro.

More than 63,600 Americans were killed by opioid painkillers last year — 11,200 more people than the year before that and the highest number of lives claimed by the crisis so far.

By repackaging the data in an easy - to - read dashboard and by layering in a social element, Nike allows its customers to connect, challenging each other through friendly competitions to run a certain number of miles «together» in a given week even though they may live 3,000 miles aparBy repackaging the data in an easy - to - read dashboard and by layering in a social element, Nike allows its customers to connect, challenging each other through friendly competitions to run a certain number of miles «together» in a given week even though they may live 3,000 miles aparby layering in a social element, Nike allows its customers to connect, challenging each other through friendly competitions to run a certain number of miles «together» in a given week even though they may live 3,000 miles apart.

«By appealing to young families as opposed to their parents, Leon's could sell them furniture over a number of life stages.»

«By now, you've spent a good portion of your life learning things about yourself, steering those things in different directions, hiding them, claiming new identities and any number of other adjustments we all make (consciously or not),» Kurtz writes.

«The reason I said I didn't like Samsung is because throughout my entire life, because of how my parents raised me, I have to work with the number one, I can't work with anyone but Jay Z because he's number one, I can't be with any girl but Kim because that's the girl that I look at her pictures the most and get turned on by.

Consider the numbers: Nearly half of all U.S. adults use a smartphone, according to recent findings by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

A substantial number of people whose lives were upended by Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy have suffered from — and, in some cases, continue to suffer from — PTSD.

Think and Grow Rich is the number - one inspirational and motivational classic for individuals who are interested in furthering their lives and reaching their goals by learning from important figures in history.

Throughout the world, a growing number of social impact - motivated entrepreneurs like Mycoskie are doing well by doing good, truly making a difference in people's lives while generating economy - boosting profits in the process.

Like any of number of fictional futures, from Metropolis to Altered Carbon, it is a society where the wealthy in live in glistening towers in the clouds, surrounded by technologies of luxury and convenience, looking down on an underclass that can not afford basic necessities.

But while the total number of U.S. life insurance policies — bought by both private citizens and employers — is shrinking, standard life plans are still among the most popular form of coverage purchased.

I've played several of them, and am always blown away by the numbers that appear on the screen: «Cash Show» consistently draws more than 100,000 players and gives away a total of $ 20,000 a day on weekends ($ 9,000 on weekdays); «The Q,» a hilariously ramshackle app out of Charleston, South Carolina, gets approximately 10,000 players going for as little as $ 100 per quiz; «Quiz Biz,» on the popular live - streaming app Live.me, gives away up to $ 50,000 — a pop — to tens of thousands of players.

Some immediate annuities attempt to address such issues by offering limited access to a portion of your investment while you're still alive or by stipulating that the annuity will make payments for a certain number of years (five, 10 or whatever) whether you're still living or not.

A number of asset managers are being hit with similar lawsuits by employees, such as New York Life Insurance Co. and American Century.

Unlike rural Michigan, large numbers of people live or work close to Burrard Inlet or shorelines that might be impacted by a bitumen accident.

ESPN does this with a number of its live shows, including Pardon the Interruption (PTI), which is generally sponsored by a spirits company.

In February 2016, federal cabinet ministers acknowledged that the true number of Indigenous women and girls whose lives have been stolen is likely far higher than reported by the RCMP.

More than 5 million Americans are currently living with the disease, and that number is expected to triple by 2050, placing a staggering burden on society.

HHI provided medical care, food and supplies and by mid-September, the numbers in the camps had grown to 3,000 refugees living in four camps.

One way to calculate this number, especially early in your business's growth, is by looking at what you need to cover your basic living expenses.

It's important to follow analytics and ensure you're reaching your audience, but don't live and die by your numbers.

The fertility rate as measured by the number of live births per woman in Europe has dropped substantially in a number of countries according to The Economist.

His numbers were correct and showed that if the same number of people continued to move to California as had in the previous 10 years, then everyone in the United States would live in California by the year 2000.

Since the company's initial public offering in 2013, Voya has reduced the number of variable annuity policies with living benefits in its closed block by 35 percent to 199,000 policies at the end of the first quarter.

Buying gold from an online dealer offering storage will make your life easier in a number of ways (as long as your metal will be held by a third - party custodian, not the dealer itself).

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

Once you know what your essential living expenses are likely to be month - by - month, you can begin to focus on spending LESS than this number.

It's something we actually live minute - by - minute when we bring on a new property management contract, run the numbers on an apartment community we're thinking about buying, or map out the strategic direction for our company in the coming year.

What this implies is having reached a point in life where a large number of lifestyle expenses are covered by passive income...

Canada has also not moved to align itself with the growing international consensus that the term of copyright protection is more appropriately the life of the author (known as pma, or post mortem auctoris) plus 70 years, as adopted by the US, all EU countries and a number of others.

As a result of the recurring transfers of Bitcoins to pay the Sponsor's Fee and the Trust expenses not assumed by the Sponsor, the net asset value of the Trust («NAV») and, correspondingly, the fractional number of Bitcoins represented by each Share, will decrease over the life of the Trust.

One option would be to deliver a stand pat budget in 2014 that simply updates the economic and fiscal numbers, surrounded by a lot of rhetoric on how well Canada is doing compared to other G - 7 countries and how we should be happy we don't live in Greece.

«A 2012 study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life reports that just 6 % of the US population are atheists even though the number of religiously unaffiliated has grown from 15 % to just under 20 %.»

If the force of gravity varied by any more than this infinitesimally small number, then stars would burn either too hot or too cold for the chemical building blocks of life to form.