Sentences with phrase «good things of the world»

Thus she went away wholly delivered from the heavy burthen of the cares and good things of this world, and found her soul so satisfied that she no longer wished for anything upon earth, resting entirely upon God, with this only fear lest she should be discovered and be obliged to return home; for she felt already more content in this poverty than she had done for all her life in all the delights of the world.»

Not exact matches

Someone can see what they feel is the greatest advertisement in the world and be dead set on buying from that company, but if a friend tells them good things about another company that offers the same goods or services, most of the time they will take their friends advice and go with the alternative company.

«Its theory seems to be: Let's get lots of people to push for all sorts of things and the world will get better, it's kind of a shot gun approach rather than a targeted one.

We've always looked at professional sports, not because we want to model exactly what other sports do, but even when you're attempting to innovate, sometimes there are things that already exist in the world that work really well and work for a reason, and we shouldn't be afraid to use some of that.

His thinking: Some of the world's best innovators have accomplished great things without graduating.

The corporate world may not condone spring break officially, but any excuse to turn on your out - of - office to escape the city is a good thing.

Even if you had the best PowerPoint presentation in the world with great visuals, staged animation, and all the other cool things you can do with PowerPoint (I'd be lying if I said I didn't like all of that PowerPoint geeky stuff, too), it still is one in a line of many all using the same format and structure.

This whole «good deed» thing got me thinking about how in the startup world there are also a multitude of ways in which the best of intentions can easily lead to bad decisions and lousy results.

This is no small thing, for the world desperately needs the best of what each of us has to offer.

With one recently - auctioned 14 - bedroom, two - pool mansion on Park Lane Circle being modelled on the Palace of Versailles, it's clear that the residents of Bridle Path have a cultured eye for the world's best things.

Of course, this type of marketing will require a good deal of fine tuning — the last thing a retailer can afford to do right now is completely alienate customers with overly invasive promotions in an increasingly privacy - obsessed worlOf course, this type of marketing will require a good deal of fine tuning — the last thing a retailer can afford to do right now is completely alienate customers with overly invasive promotions in an increasingly privacy - obsessed worlof marketing will require a good deal of fine tuning — the last thing a retailer can afford to do right now is completely alienate customers with overly invasive promotions in an increasingly privacy - obsessed worlof fine tuning — the last thing a retailer can afford to do right now is completely alienate customers with overly invasive promotions in an increasingly privacy - obsessed world.

And perhaps their whole thing was... a revival of the true brand sentiment of what WestJet is in a world where Porter has very much taken on a friendly «we're here for you» type of brand as well,» he says.

Though the philanthropy under Bill Gates» name has partnered with cryptocurrency firm Ripple in a bid to help the unbanked, the world's second richest man said Tuesday that the main feature of Bitcoin and its ilk is not a «good thing.»

Though the idea may sound out of this world, the nascent space tourism industry is set to take off in the next decade, and humans will need a way to pay for things in space as well as send payments to Earth, said PayPal President David Marcus.

«Man, if we could get more really smart MIT computer science graduates to try and fix education and health - care and poverty instead of building another photo - sharing app, that would be a good thing for the world.»

Finally, freakishly, there is an American president who does not want to lead the world, and doesn't want to do anything in the world except get out of Afghanistan and Iraq on an acceptable basis, doesn't care a fig for the western alliance, and doesn't think American strength or leadership is a good thing.

This line of thinking is especially difficult to adapt in the consumer tech world, where every company does their best to convince you that this year's Thing is constantly superior than last year's Whatever.

We feel he's the best person to get things back on track, with his world experience, and view of the world.

This should be a good thing, because the U.S. is still the world's biggest oil consumer, using 19 million barrels a day and importing about half of it.

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 good.

Just hoping things will turn out well stops us from making tough choices, believing the best about others can get you taken advantage of, and a failure to look at the world as it truly is can be harmful to both your business and your personal life.

After a few months playing, things were starting to click and I was starting to have good results, a few of the players in the game suggested I go to the World Series of Poker in Vegas.

In his 1990 book The Age of Intelligent Machines, Kurzweil foresaw things like the internet's fast and widespread adoption, wearable devices, the cloud, and the ability of artificial intelligence to beat the world's best chess players by 2000.

The thing is, though, that I'm 52 years old, familiar with the field and the world of conventions, moderately well known to many professionals in the field, and relatively well - liked.

In other words, «manufacturing hell,» as CEO Elon Musk had so elegantly put it last year, will continue to reign, which is not a good thing for an amateur manufacturer in a world full of pros.»

Many millennials are driven to do things outside of work that will change the world and make it better.

Well the first thing is if the United States raises interest rates that's going to push the dollar way up against the Euro, and most of all against third world and Asian countries.

It's tempting to compare the second - largest phone market in the world to China, but in fact the latter is significantly richer and has a much larger high - end that primarily values status; the former, meanwhile, is very well - informed about things like processor and camera specifications, and is likely to be particularly appreciative of the SE's aggressive feature set.

Myriota has won several global awards including best industrial start - up at the 2017 Internet of Things World Congress in San Francisco, Best New Business at the 2017 SA Telstra Business awards, and was selected as one of Westpac's 200 Businesses of Tomorbest industrial start - up at the 2017 Internet of Things World Congress in San Francisco, Best New Business at the 2017 SA Telstra Business awards, and was selected as one of Westpac's 200 Businesses of TomorBest New Business at the 2017 SA Telstra Business awards, and was selected as one of Westpac's 200 Businesses of Tomorrow.

Could stand to learn a few things about becoming a recognizable name, a household brand or a leading expert like my clients who have appeared on the major national TV shows, in the most prestigious magazines, radio shows and Internet sites... and have helped sell millions of dollars worth of my clients» books, products, professional services, and promoted causes that have changed the world for the better, using popular media to tell their stories for over two decades?

It's good to see how the rest of the world is seeing things.

a good suggestion is to travel around the world and experience a lifetime of «mis - steps» and you'll be smiling when you get back home and understand the best thing about coming home is being able to «relieve yourself» in «factual comfort».

For the U.S., it should be a good thing and resolve the Triffin Dilemma in favor of higher growth, productivity, savings and employment domestically, but it seems like it could be pretty chaotic for the world.

, money's most important role is that it gives options and solves problems, and there are way too many stories of successful individuals doing great things with their wealth to make this world a better place that go unreported.

New advances in the world of sensors, chips, hardware devices, swallowable cameras, 3D printing, artificial organs, data mining technologies, and more could help us diagnose diseases earlier, provide better treatments to patients, and even ease things like chronic pain and depression.

But when oil companies (and governments) talk about oil supply, they include all sorts of things that can not be sold as oil on the world market including biofuels, refinery gains and natural gas plant liquids as well as lease condensate.

Simply stated, we believe in taking a realistic approach to the economy and investment markets that starts by stepping back from all the noise and fear in the daily news and, with the aid of our deep network, focusing on the search for the world's best income opportunities and for great companies doing great things — both in North America and around the world.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

Well, in a world where a new restaurant pops up every day, true competitive advantage is one of the most difficult things to attain.

Google is moving deeper into the world of the Internet of Things, announcing a new operating system — Brillo — as well as a communications layer at its Google I / O developer conference.

«One of the things that the china beige book plans to do is to give people a real picture of not just the growth dynamics, but also the labor market, the credit dynamics, the macro implications of Chinese growth, indications of future Chinese demand, implications of commodity markets around the world, we try to give the people a much better picture on what's actually happening instead of just relying on official data and press release».

«Planned markets are sick markets, markets that are always in crisis, because their most - important social function — facilitating selection between competing pools of capital on the basis of what way of doing things in the real world works best in practice, distinguishing between real capital formers and fools — has been disrupted by the planner's clumsy interference.

And at the end of the day, more capital that is tied to company building VCs in the startup world is a good thing for entrepreneurs.

John is a world - renowned financial writer of New York Times best - selling books including Code Red, Bull's Eye Investing, Just One Thing, Endgame, and most recently, The Little Book of Bull's Eye Investing.

If we keep building on our openness — attracting the best and the brightest citizens, generating and exchanging new ideas and new ways of doing things and welcoming investment in our economy — Canada can position itself at the centre of the networked world that is emerging in the 21st century.»

While we can sit here and debate the value of things, there is one company that is looking to blend the best of both worlds through the use of a crypto token that is based on real - world assets, but can still take advantage of everything that makes digital currencies so appealing — the blockchain and smart contracts being two examples.

And if you think that the world economy is going to enter a time of instability where a lot of things start falling apart then of course we can say that Bitcoin or other Cryptocurrencies will well maintain their utility value for that reason.

The best thing about being a part of a global network of employees is being connected with investment professionals all over the world.

Here's a letter to the board of Biglari Holdings re: executive compensation [Noise Free Investing] & then more thoughts on Biglari's compensation agreement [My Investing Notebook] Where things stand in the market [Bespoke Investment Group] A list of stocks Nasdaq is canceling trades in from yesterday's madness [Business Insider] The best interest rate chart in the world [Trader's Narrative] A great macro overview from Barry Ritholtz [The Big Picture] A look at John Paulson's possible ownership of Bear Stearns CDOs [Zero Hedge] John Mauldin on the future of public debt [Advisor Perspectives] Top buys & sells from Morningstar's ultimate stock pickers [Morningstar] The truth about «Sell in May & Go Away» [WSJ] An interview with hedge fund manager Hugh Hendry [Investment Week] Bill Ackman: Let's have a public registry for stock opinion [Barron's] Hedge fund Harbinger hires ex-Orange chief for wireless plan [Dealbook] & Deutsche Telekom has been in talks with Harbinger [FT] Hedge funds begin to restructure fee system [FT]

One of the great things about working in my world is that I get to run around with some very smart, very successful people, who also happen to be very good investors.