Sentences with phrase «lives the high life selling»

Ace (Wood Harris) works at a laundromat, struggling to get by, while his friend Mitch (Mekhi Phifer) lives the high life selling heroin.

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Real life consequences include: high monetary fines, the suspension of your business or ability to sell that particular item, and in rare cases you may face criminal charges.

«I've been a hustler my whole life, selling baseball cards and sneakers,» says Tebele, 26, speaking from his disheveled headquarters in SoHo, where miscellaneous FuckJerry merchandise clutters corners and dishes pile high in the kitchen sink.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

These are safe high yield plays that can buttress an early retirement portfolio by making it completely unnecessary to sell shares to fund living expenses.

Living Goods told us that its current focus in Kenya is on selling «durables that deliver proven economic impact» such as high - efficiency cookstoves and solar lights.20

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Shoppers in Switzerland will be living the high life this month after budget supermarket Lidl announced that it will begin selling locally - grown cannabis to its customers.

If enough value is accumulated, the passive income will be high enough so that no shares ever have to be sold, and so the investor can live off of his or her accumulated wealth indefinitely while continuing to grow, rather than shrink, their net worth.

But financial products, esp the high - commission fee - loaded stuff the WFG wants to you flog like variable annuities and Transamerica's «Indexed» Universal Life (FFIUL) insurance policy, you usually sell once to a prospect and that's it.

The band that dominated your high school life sold 186,000 «equivalent albums» — adjusted to take streaming songs and full albums into account — of their brand new full length California Of that number, 172,000 were traditional album sales, which is the third largest week for a rock album this year.

Was he not in effect selling his life to the highest bidder?

Most do not want to return to a time when fathers owned their daughters and sold them to the highest bidder (Exodus 21:7; Nehemiah 5:5; Genesis 29:1 — 10), when multiple wives and concubines were a part of everyday life (even for men of God like Abraham, Jacob, and David), when women were forbidden from owning property, when foreign virgins could be captured as spoils of war (Judges 21), when a woman's lack of virginity could get her executed (Deuteronomy 22:11, Leviticus), when the stories of brave women like Tamar and Dinah and Esther and Vashti and Leah and Rachel emerge from contexts of oppression.

Accordingly, throughout the annals of the saintly life, we find this ever - recurring note: Fling yourself upon God's providence without making any reserve whatever — take no thought for the morrow — sell all you have and give it to the poor, only when the sacrifice is ruthless and reckless will the higher safety really arrive.

Mr Pringuet said Pernot just had to live with the high Australian dollar as it faced currency issues in the 80 countries it sells into.

However, Coca - Cola South Pacific plans to use the Coke Life formula sold in the UK and the US rather than the formula sold in South America, which has a higher stevia content and 60 per cent fewer kilojoules than classic Coke.

It's never as easy as in FIFA (Dybala was such a bargain and I can't sell Gibbs in the game for as high as in real life).

If you purchase the high - performance Cool On The Go batteries (sold separately), you can expect around 5 hours of continuous battery life on the high setting, and around 8 hours on low before requiring a charge.

I agree with the sentiment that English cricket shouldn't be selling itself to the highest bidder but neither can we living in some nostalgic backwater.

Ben Redsell: Morrison's voters are Labour voters because they tend to be pile it high sell it cheap merchants and they are prone to be aimed at those people who are living entirely on benefits.

He was trying to sell himself as a person of high integrity who believed in the family life and marriage when he was being thoroughly dishonest.

Do they wish to go down an old and trodden path with Supervisor Gromack that has taken the town to the second highest property taxes in the United States where senior citizens were to be sold out to protect the Town's reserve fund and its bond street rating, where the properety values of citizens living in the Town of Clarkstown would not be protected by implementation of a Ward System, where consolidation of purchasing functions with the County would not occur, and where systemic corruption would continue to grow as revealed by several arrests of individuals receiving compensation from the Town?

Astete said some of the highest mercury levels were in people who were not directly involved in mining, but who lived near places where gold is bought and sold, such as the shop where the emissions were too high to be measured by the EPA's gauge.

We both took lower paying jobs in a state with a higher cost of living and sold our cars and most of our belongings.

By selling such a high quality product at an affordable price, we not only positively affect the lives of our customers, it also gives us the financial means by which we can help those who are less fortunate to live a happier, healthier, and more productive life.»

Leanne Vogel is the founder of Healthful Pursuit, best - selling author of over 11 health programs, host of The Keto Diet Podcast, author of the international bestselling paperback, The Keto Diet, and the creator of Fat Fueled living — a holistic, paleo - friendly approach to a ketogenic, high - fat diet.

If you live in the Clearwater, FL, area and youre looking to sell your car, LKQ Pick Your Part buys used cars and has the highest payout in the bay area.

These guys an be very funny and they go above and beyond to sell their zany jokes and larger - than - life characters, best typified with Hefferman (Sky High).

The film, also starring Helen Mirren and Barkhad Abdi, is one of the few movies — Fruitvale Station comes to mind — that allows the audience to come to know victims before tragedy strikes, giving high value to a single life; in this case, it's a little girl selling bread who's in danger of becoming «collateral damage.»

The story of Burt Shavitz, the bearded, backwoodsy photojournalist - turned - homespun entrepreneur whose beekeeping and honey - selling business morphed into the Burt's Bees empire, «Burt's Buzz» spends its first hour as a charming character study of an idiosyncratic man who lives a ramshackle life («sort of like a high - class hobo») when he's not serving as the public face of a huge brand.

What few human survivors remained lived under the rule of a ruthless Kree lord, a villain who sold off Inhumans to the highest bidder.

At the time, enormous American firms, household names like Xerox and Ford, found themselves fighting for their lives against challengers from overseas that were making higher quality products and selling them for less.

All in all, the highest selling compact sedan justifies its numbers because it is a very reliable car to live with.

years I am the second owner of this car it has been well maintained I am selling it because I had to upgrade to a bigger vehicle it does have faded spots from the sun and driver side seat is worn a little but this car is a great car the miles is high but I do believe this car still has some life to it if it remains took care of for more details please feel free to call or text me anytime.2, 500 OBO

Some of the most popular small cars sold in India, including Maruti Alto 800, Tata Nano, Ford Figo, Hyundai i10 and Volkswagen Polo, have failed crash tests showing high risk of life - threatening injuries in road accidents, according to Global NCAP.

It seems like about the only summer tires sold are high performance, with low tread life.

Amazon's best - selling tablet is now even better — Fire 7 features a thinner and lighter design, an improved 7» IPS display with higher contrast and sharper text, longer battery life with up to 8 hours of mixed use, 8 GB of storage with support for up to 256 GB of expandable storage, and better Wi - Fi connectivity, plus Alexa — all for only $ 49.99.

But in the case of Munro's Books of Victoria in British Columbia, owner Jim Munro wasn't content with selling his business and living off the proceeds in high - style.

ResultSource makes its living selling this type of thing to high - profile individuals with sufficient funds to pay to game the bestseller list system.

would LOVE an 8 ″ display, combine that with a higher res screen and better battery life, and you would have me sold!

Having been a software developer myself for nearly two decades, I would ask that you allow me to paraphrase Khalaf's remarks: if you sell something using your app (be it virtual currency or physical merchandise) people will want to buy it, users are loyal but expectations are high (meaning you can create life - long customers if you support your app, and update it regularly to offer the features and functionality your users demand), and larger devices mean more screen real estate to play with (but not as much as tablets can offer, and you don't want to alienate users still stuck in a sub-5-inch-screened world).

As if the «evil empire» of book selling hasn't done enough to live up to the reputation that its critics have put forth, a new interview in the Financial Times with Waterstones» CEO James Daunt describes how Amazon is causing unemployment rates to skyrocket, especially in terms of high street booksellers.

«Spying in High Heels was the first book I had ever published and sold, so the fact that it's getting a fresh life to a new group of readers through ereaders is really exciting to me.

The announcement follows a number of high - profile success stories in recent years: EL James's best - selling erotic novel 50 Shades of Grey began life as a self - published ebook, while thriller writer Rachel Abbott's first six self - published Kindle novels have together sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide.

And even those of us who live in (or just outside of) major metropolitan areas have only one reliable way to find out that, for example, yard waste collection has been delayed by one week, the local high school's drama club is selling tickets for their latest performance, or what's open and what's closed on a given holiday the local newspaper.

I am a U.S. citizen living in Germany and would like to sell some movable property at a higher price than I bought it for.

I was surprised by that last comment, but upon meeting with the management of our parent company that was selling us, along with the life insurance company that we managed, they told me that yes, I should lead the unit until the merger closed, but rely on the high yield manager in our group to advise me for the duration, which was going to be three months.

That salesman who hides behind the «financial advisor» title but is selling whole life insurance gets paid a huge commission (as high as 75 % of your first years premium!!)

Permanent life insurance policies, particularly those that build cash value, only make sense in certain situations, but agents make higher commissions by selling them.

So, if I happen to have a very high interest rate mortgage, well I guess it's either sell the house or live with it.