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 worl
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 worl
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 worl
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
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 Tomor
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 Tomor
Best 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.