Sentences with phrase «much less live»

Believe it or not, back then you couldn't drive a nicer car than your boss (or you'd never get a raise), much less live in a nicer house (with more than a third of your pay cheque going to your mortgage).

The corporation then appoints its own charter school board with people who do not even have to live in Washington state - much less live in the school district to oversee the corporation.

Honestly I don't know how these people sleep at night, much less live with themselves.

It's difficult for us to perceive, much less live from, our innate capacity for love, generosity and compassion.

But studies I have seen show that there is a much less life lost to storms.

The impact is usually so significant that there is no possibility of having the career one envisioned, much less living life prior to the injuries.

Not exact matches

Food, transport, accommodation and clothes cost much less than in the U.S. Retirees looking for a high quality of life at a low cost will not be disappointed.

Nicaragua allows you to live a higher quality life for much less.

What about those individuals living in the developing world without electricity — the 1.5 billion people who can't turn on a light switch much less charge a device?

Third - party contracting firm benefits aren't only less generous, but the exorbitant Silicon Valley housing prices and rents make life as a contractor so difficult workers from contract companies often can't afford to elect a benefits package, because doing so will take too much out of their paycheck.

Add to this that English is the official language, business laws are based on British laws with protections for investors, and the lower cost of living and you can enjoy a high quality of life for much less.

«When you go through life, what you'll find is what you take out of the world over time — be it money, cars, stuff, accolades — is much less important than what you've put into the world.»

For instance, recent research on the sleep habits of hunter gatherer bands living much like our long - ago ancestors did found modern humans actually don't get much less sleep than our tribal forebears.

Entrepreneurs need to spend much less time at their computer imagining their new business and more time out engaging with real, live customers.

Segmenters typically experience less conflict between their work and home lives, while integration «allows you to work much more,» Devereaux says.

It's much less likely that our business cards will spring to life via magic eyeglasses than it is that we just... won't carry business cards anymore.

Today, the people who run the most successful companies have learned that helping workers balance their lives on the job and off results in a healthy environment with less stress, much higher productivity, and much lower employee turnover.

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.

Shaq's book report revealed it had been less than transformative: «This is about a young man who has power, wealth, and women (much like me), and gives them all up to pursue a holy life (not so much like me).»

Your life would be so much better in that you could work less and get more done all at the same time.

Yet, when a newly purchased product doesn't live up to expectations, that cycle can be irretrievably broken: Excitement turns to disappointment, and the customer's likelihood of having a positive feeling toward the retailer, much less making a repeat purchase, drops precipitously.

If you only have one product or service, your business is almost certainly not a viable business, but more like a hobby or avocation: You may make sales and get paid, but you will never grow very large or become very profitable, much less make a living off selling that one product or service.

Some live well on much less.

These couples have actually met (and mated, though we don't know if they're still together), they're sometimes answering questions about matters of life and death, and they have much less incentive to lie.

In that spirit, here are seven things you can do to destroy your wealth and guarantee you spend your life in much less affluence than you would have enjoyed.

[30:08] Life is too short to suffer [31:01] It's the thoughts that are stressful that you believe that mess you up — when you question them, you break the pattern [31:20] The more you train yourself to do it, the easier it becomes [31:40] Don't wait to be rich, richness is joy and abundance [32:01] Loss, Less, Never: the sources of all suffering [32:06] The antidote is to see it for what it is, know it's «BS,» and find something to appreciate [33:49] So much of our life has become about expectatLife is too short to suffer [31:01] It's the thoughts that are stressful that you believe that mess you up — when you question them, you break the pattern [31:20] The more you train yourself to do it, the easier it becomes [31:40] Don't wait to be rich, richness is joy and abundance [32:01] Loss, Less, Never: the sources of all suffering [32:06] The antidote is to see it for what it is, know it's «BS,» and find something to appreciate [33:49] So much of our life has become about expectatlife has become about expectation.

Owners of fixed indexed annuities (FIAs) with guaranteed living income benefit (GLIB) riders are much less likely to surrender their contracts than they were 10 years ago, according to new research based on 3.3 million policyholders.

As previously stated, Social Security benefits are often insufficient to cover all living expenses, much less to build savings to leave to future generations.

The largest living generation, millennials appear to be much less at risk from the effects of the anchoring bias than baby boomers.

This might be too much of a sacrifice for the true - blue coffee lover, but if you could go either way, keep in mind that a cup of tea brewed at home can cost as little as four cents per cup, compared to 12 - 43 cents for less - than - fancy home - brewed coffee, according to Living Stingy.

«To succeed in the Gig Economy, we need to create a financially flexible life of lower fixed costs, higher savings, and much less debt,» Diane Mulcahy, a senior analyst at the Kauffman Foundation and a lecturer at Babson College, writes in her book «The Gig Economy,» which is part economic argument and part how - to guide.

Hemp phytoremediates contaminated soils, uses much less water to grow than corn, soybean, and cotton, and it doesn't need herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides to grow successfully; hemp does all of this while producing more material in it's twelve or so feet of sun stretching life.

Participants» choices are limited when bear markets occur, he argues: «You pretty much can't go back into the workforce (so) your only course of action is to reduce your standard of living, spend less.

A breakthrough could also come from programs under way at less mature biotech companies, including Axovant Sciences (NASDAQ: AXON) and the much riskier Anavex Life Sciences (NASDAQ: AVXL).

In either case, there's no evidence to support wasting one's only life as if one or more of the god fables is true, much less running a nation or world as if it were.

Yes our quality of life is still quite good relative to SOME other countries... that not really what people are thinking though when they use the term «3rd world country» — they are talking about the trending that they see — and the media reflects a perception out there that things are trending in a negative direction... look, if you read my original posts, you will see that they have much less to do with our economy as they have to do with WHY we are involved in the middle east and the SOCIAL impact of that.

So long as you know how your money is being allocated and have a plan for what to do in different scenarios, you will go through life with much less financial stress.

The reporters and producers were much less likely know anyone in their personal life very well who participated in, or strongly approved of, the Tea Party.

Not only is it a blessing, it makes one keenly aware that there is far more to this life than our five senses can possibly detect, much less our ability to fully comprehend God, the origin of our Existance, and His plan for us.

I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

And just because he may have initially started it all doesn't mean he exists anymore or has anything to do with the universe, much less our individual lives.

So, yes, one can live a completely moral life — even a «Christ - like life» — without necessarily believing in Jesus, much less believing in His divinity.

Well, judgement was passed when the mommy decided the baby's fate, deciding that jr. wasn't good enough to be born, much less to live.

We think that's much less of a surprise than he does, but to his credit Mehdi Hasan rejects the cultural left's «my body, my life, my choice» line.

The other possibility, the evocation of the transcendent good — grace, beauty, God — through the hard temporal realities of individuals in action is much harder to carry off, as evidenced in Greene's The Power and the Glory, Charles Williams» Descent into Hell, C. S. Lewis» Out of the Silent Planet, Tolstoy's Resurrection, and perhaps most poignantly in the dismal failure of most literary attempts to portray the central mystery, the life of Jesus — Kazantzakis» The Greek Passion, Faulkner's A Fable, or — most dismal of all, historical novels about Jesus (what could be less hidden?)

I think the point is this man was granted generosity by strangers in the 1940s... most people may help someone out, but not at their own expense, much less their family and very lives.

On the other hand, and with far less obvious justification, he believes that Christ is very much alive; that, indeed, he constitutes the life of our history.

«And yet, strangely enough, as much good as «living with less» has done me, it has also been too much of an idol at times.

God's will for our lives usually looks much less enjoyable than our plans for our own life.

The inference is that natural rights reasoning is insufficient to establish an enduring constitutional jurisprudence, much less one capable of protecting human life.