Sentences with phrase «longer than their useful»

«Too many people finance things for longer than their useful life,» said Fleming.

Not exact matches

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.

Instead of relying on market returns, it may prove more useful to keep an eye on the long term, and to look at the volatility of any particular moment with more objectivity than emotion.

If you believe we are heading into the decade of gamification then listen up, because you'll need to be watchful of leveraging this tactic in a useful way rather than one that diminishes long - term benefits.

These programs are useful if your business is very small or if you want to take the software for a longer test run than the trial period allows.

With long - term debt financing, the scheduled repayment of the loan and the estimated useful life of the assets extends over more than one year.

A lot of narrative fluff in this book that made it feel more like a long - form sales pitch than a useful tool.

Musk says the new solar roofs will cost less than a traditional roof plus the cost of electricity and last longer than traditional roofs which, according to the National Roofing Contractors Association, «are designed to provide useful service for about 20 years.

(A metaphysics of process — dealing with growth, development and decay — thus may in the long run prove more useful to the theological enterprise than a metaphysics of being; Whitehead and Bergson over Aquinas and Mascall.)

Religion no longer serves a useful purpose, other than to perhaps give some measure of comfort to the dying that there's somehow more after «lights - out».

In his encyclical letter on the importance of St. Thomas» work, Pope Leo also alluded to the Church's need to maintain a deep study of science: «When the Scholastics, following the teaching of the Holy Fathers, everywhere taught throughout their anthropology that the human understanding can only rise to the knowledge of immaterial things by things of sense, nothing could be more useful for the philosopher than to investigate carefully the secrets of Nature, and to be conversant, long and laboriously, with the study of physical science.»

If you want to insist on points totals then perhaps looking at longer trends is more useful rather than arbitrary snap - shots.

Eleven points off safety and with their closest rivals having made useful additions — Reading reinforced their back line with Premier League loanees Andy Griffin and Zurab Khizanishvili while Plymouth signing Damien Johnson was Birmingham's midfield lynchpin not so very long ago — Peterborough chose deadline day to part ways with manager Mark Cooper after less than three months and only 13 games in charge.

We men are nothing more than a means to an end apparently, and when we are no longer useful, and every last ounce of strength and ability to make money is used up, out you go.

Finally, it's worth noting that this sack also can have a longer useful lifespan than more traditional zip - up models on the market, because it can work as a jumpsuit during the after - swaddle, before - blanket stage.

Not just through hunting, but it has proven to be useful and effective on sealing foods in restaurants, fishing vessels and to homes preserving your food five times longer than normal storage conditions.

If your baby is older than 2 months, sunscreen and bug repellent can be useful as long as you don't get them in his eyes (and avoid putting repellent on your child's hands).

«Wider than other umbrella style strollers I've used, making it useful longer.

This high chair is more expensive than some, but has some features that may make it useful for a longer time.

The UK publication «Young Writer» magazine and the American «My Little Magazine» (now, sadly, no longer published) gave them more useful writing exercises than any text book, with the bonus of entering (and sometimes winning) competitions.

Nonetheless, the 13 chapters here provide a useful guide to the shifting sands of politics since 2005, and they suggest that Conservatism may be more fashionable in academic circles than for a long time past.

Because a significant proportion are diesel and their average annual mileage is usually considerably lower than that of a car or van, at that age they still have a long and useful life ahead of them.

In a letter to the Social Security trustees in December 2003, the American Academy of Actuaries, the leading professional organization of actuaries, warned that infinite - horizon projections «provide little if any useful information about the program's long - term finances and indeed are likely to mislead anyone lacking technical expertise in the demographic, economic, and actuarial aspects of the program's finances into believing that the program is in far worse financial shape than is actually indicated».

More than 700 MTA subway cars are considered to have outlived their «useful lifecycles» of 40 years as the agency waits for long - delayed replacements.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo vowed early in his administration to curb New York's practice of borrowing for short - term equipment purchases, arguing instead that the state should only bond for assets when their useful life is longer than the repayment term.

By taking away materials viruses need to survive rather than attacking them from the outside, the technique might be more useful against a wider range of viruses, and for a longer time, than any one drug.

I'm pregnant and our water filter doesn't get rid of it (it seems a good bit harder to get rid of than chlorine), and I've been drinking a lot of water, plus taking long salt baths so knowing something that will help neutralize it is really useful!

I believe that its developer and the team behind it have taken a long and dedicated time to actually make such a useful app for all gay men, which is different than other apps out there that are almost useless and expensive.

According to Game Informer, the slow motion mechanic (Reflex Mode) will be useful even for long time fans, and «feels more like a nice bonus than an easy crutch».

While a few of Goku Black's attacks may take longer than other characters, he has a very useful teleport and hits very hard.

If assessment results take more than a month to reach parents, 43 percent of them consider the results no longer useful or relevant.

We retain Personal Information for no longer than is commercially useful to carry out our business purposes, or as we believe may be legally required.

If international media wanted to provide their readers with real and useful information, they could report on a joint statistical analysis performed by the University of Tel Aviv, MIT and a Harvard graduate student that demonstrates that 79 % of all ceasefires were violated by Israel, 8 % by Palestinians and 13 % by both sides on the same day; and that of twenty - five ceasefires lasting longer than a week Israel violated twenty - four; and that Israel violated all fourteen ceasefires that lasted longer than nine days.1

At 1066 kg, the Jazz is now a useful 12 % lighter than before, and its new chassis features a 2530 mm wheelbase, up 30 mm over the outgoing mode: longer than its Fabia / Polo rivals (2470 mm) and the Fiesta (2489 mm) but falling short of the Mazda 2 (2570 mm).

The glove box is of a useful depth and the cubby under the front center armrest is of an equally handy size, but we would have preferred the door bins to have been a little bit broader and longer than they currently are.

Used - car financing rates typically are several percentage points higher than on new - car loans and used - car loans usually don't run as long as 60 months based on the simple fact it is a used car and some of its useful life is behind it.

«It took longer than anyone thought, and more money than anyone thought, but eventually, just because the technology is so incredibly useful, and really does something unlike anything else in the world, it eventually found its place to the point now that it's extremely ubiquitous,» Albert says.

It is very possible that the useful life of most of these devices will be at least two to three times longer than comparable devices from other companies.

Thus, it's primarily the most useful for blog posts and other articles — nothing really longer than serial short stories.

The advantage may turn out to be less than useful in the long run, however, and not just because of the impact it will have on customer satisfaction.

The Citi ® Diamond Preferred ® Card is only marginally more useful in the long term than the Chase Slate ®.

With long - term debt financing, the scheduled repayment of the loan and the estimated useful life of the assets extends over more than one year.

This useful manual is over 350 pages long and includes more than 400 pictures.

Half Constant Terminal Value Rates are useful for those whose retirement is likely to last longer than 30 years.

Constant Terminal Value Rates are useful for those whose retirement is likely to last longer than 30 years.

Malls that are no longer so useful serve lower - margin businesses for locals, become homes to mega-churches, other area - intensive human gatherings, or get destroyed, and the valuable land so near many people gets put to alternative uses that are better than the mall, but not as profitable as the mall prior to the internet.

I do think that reading these kind of books is maybe also more useful in the long run than reading the 15th book about Warren Buffett.....

While paper liners are effective and useful, some bird owners favor litter because it is absorbent and looks good for much longer than liners.

This drug is unlikely to be useful in the long term as therapy longer than 8 weeks duration is not recommended as this may increase the risk for stomach cancer.

It's also useful when I have to leave my dogs home alone for longer than their bladder will allow.