Sentences with phrase «even winning the lottery»

Making one mistake doesn't doom you to a lifetime of financial struggle, and getting lucky once — even winning the lottery — doesn't necessarily mean you're set for life.

Yes, it sounds downright un-American, but study after study has revealed a surprising truth about the pursuit of happiness: None of the stuff we think will lift our spirits — new cars, new homes, even winning the lottery — actually does the trick in the long term.

Lump sums can come from several different sources — a pension payout, inheritance, the sale of property or a business, or even winning the lottery.

People generally choose to set up this kind of annuity if they experience a large one - time lump sum payment in their lives, such as a significant inheritance, the sale of a business, or even winning the lottery.

One can hope that they find a straight path to earn a significant amount of money or that one even wins the lottery, so that the earnings could be available to increase Mr. Johnson's quality of life.

It does not all start with a good job or a good education or a lot of money or the right connections or years of experience or being clever and smart, or even winning the lottery.

Not exact matches

You may fantasize about landing a much higher paying job, getting an enormous bonus (or a sweet stock option), coming into an inheritance, or even having a winning lottery ticket.

This comes as no surprise, since 70 percent of these working Americans love what they do — to the point that 80 percent would continue working even if they won the lottery.

I think the causal link between working hard and being successful is a very flimsy one — there's very little in the way of empirical evidence to back it up, even Buffet himself talks of winning the «ovarian lottery».

Like you, many people dream of winning big, either in the lottery or at a casino, and one of the advantages of playing online is that the payout ratio is even higher than that of a land based venue.

Even if i won the lottery i would not dirve a bentley while people are starving in this country.

I have always said that if I won the lottery and had millions of dollars I would still want a job doing something every day, even if it involved being a custodian.

Some don't even know about him due to winning the unlucky geographical birth lottery.

Even though you've never won the lottery, somebody else always does.

One hastily set up website, «Prayer List for Powerball,» even charges people a dollar a piece to be included on a «list of those wishing to pray for each other to win the Powerball lottery.»

You even sometimes hear people say «I believe I will win the lottery!»

I can even recall coming across them in a vending machine and feeling like I had won the lottery.

Even though most of us swear Conor has won the lottery lol The UFC can not sue Conor for lost PPV's, his lawyers can simply counter with their inability to book a main event hurt the buys, and that this attention only helped them.

Nobody's that lucky, even at a time in our history when people are constantly testing their luck, when it's O.K. for ambition to be satisfied with a winning lottery ticket.

I reckon (and I know this won't go down too well), even someone like Alan Pardew could walk into Arsenal now, look at all the players at his disposal and think he's won the lottery having never had so much talent to at his disposal.

We signed Mustafi and Perez real close to deadline so it isn't impossible to get a couple done, even if the chance of me winning the lottery is 10 times as good XD

Put it this way: it's possible that anyone here can win the lottery, but arguing about «the best way» to spend your new - found wealth is dumb, because the probability of that happening is likely even less than of such a trade going down.

if they are after the money.Let them go and win the lottery elsewhere.Its too bad that even at this stage they are not contented with what they have when they came from such humble backgrounds.

If I were giving odds as to whether this is likely in the next twenty years, let us say, I would prefer my chances of winning the National Lottery; even though I never buy tickets!

This season, 2009 - 2010, Blackpool, one of the favourites to go down at the start of the campaign, have produced one of the biggest shocks the Championship has ever seen simply by reaching the lottery of the play - off's, but their efforts will be in vein, probably not even remember, should they not win the final itself on Saturday.

«To set the figure significantly higher than even the # 13,400 gross annual wage effectively denies young people and many thousands of low - wage earners in full time employment the ability to be joined by their non-EEA spouses from abroad unless they happen to have wealthy relatives or to have won the lottery.

Mr Johnson last week only succeeded in making Labour look divided — and even more dangerous, irrelevant to that vast majority who not only will never earn enough to pay the top rate of tax, but who are realistic enough about their own aspirations to know that have more chance of winning the lottery than doing so.

«Even so, the probability that this nonlinear interaction occurs on any given atom is less than winning the lottery.»

Even if I won the lottery, I don't think I would change my shopping habits.

If I were to win the lottery tomorrow I would definitely buy myself a whole new wardrobe, is that even a question?!

Malware scammers send emails and social media messages at random with links purporting to be on something topical — news, an Advance fee lottery scams — you know, those messages that claim that you've won a vast sum of money in some overseas lottery that you've never even

Im down to earth pretty much so even more so if i could win the lottery but hasnt happened yet.Im new to this site and see how it goes did i forgetto mention i have a foot fetish

When he learns that he has won a lottery organized by his boss, he is applauded and congratulated by the whole team, flown by chopper to a mountain retreat that not even the pilot is allowed to get too near, and begins to bond with Nathan (Oscar Isaac).

Kids in some NYC private schools are composing multi-page research papers while even parents of children who won the lottery for placement in

You have a far better chance of winning a lottery than breaking even on your investment.

Even if I doubled my salary or won the lottery overnight, maybe I could just barely afford something.»

Of course you could always go the charitable lottery route, where the odds of winning are even better.

Your chances of winning big with the fast - food chain are even worse than at the big national lotteries.

I could have won lottery but... even though I bought many tickets in my life, I haven't won yet.

If your situation improves, if you get a better paying job, if you inherit some money, even if you win the lottery, you're not required to pay this thing off any quicker than what you've agreed to.

Even though the tontine in England in 1693 paid only 8 % and a life annuity paid 14 %, the promise of a bigger payoff if you outlived everyone else still caused some to choose the tontine, since like a lottery someone had to win.

If you recently came into some unexpected money — say, through an inheritance or because you won the lottery, or even an unexpected investment gain — use the sum to pay down your mortgage principal.

This illusion of control helps explain why people who buy lottery tickets are given an option to choose their own numbers, even though all combinations have the same (and staggeringly low) chance of winning the jackpot.

Yes, everyone wins in that game... Even the clerks working at Taco Bell or Walmart (if they lied, went stated, etc.) who bought... just hoping their 6 lucky lottery numbers come up...

But if we change our habits and place any unexpected extra money (such as an inheritance, cash gift, tax refund or even the remote possibility of a lottery win) into the stock market instead, that money will leave you a much bigger impression later on than if you simply spent it.

Some people don't even realize how much money they're paying hoping to win a lottery one day.

Or you know... there are those of us who start and run 501 (c) 3 animal rescues for free in our spare time away from our full time unrelated jobs and don't make excuses that we will do it when we retire or (better yet, my favorite * insert eye roll *) when we «win the lottery» I save HUNDREDS of senior, special needs, medically needy, shy, plain and hospice animals every year and find them forever homes I manage to do this while living in the most expensive area in the country, going back to school for another graduate degree and maintaining my other life responsibilities including my family and even other volunteer obligations.

Some people are opposed to boledo and lottery on these grounds, saying that it only takes the poor man's money, and even if he wins, it leaves him a poor man still.

I think I need to win the lottery or rob a bank to many interesting games and not enough money to buy them all.The Witcher 3, Batman Arkham Knight, MGS5, Uncharted 4 and Battlefront 3 are my favorites but there are easily 10 other games I would like to play not to mention the next FIFA, CoD, PES, AC and NFS are not even on that list

I believe we wouldn't appreciate them nearly as much if we got them all at once... even though I sure would be happy to win the lottery or Publisher's Clearing House!