Sentences with phrase «small number of successes»

Although these individual probabilities are rare, the payoffs are so high that a relatively small number of successes can boost a small - cap portfolio's returns.

Not exact matches

So, why do a small number of individuals and organizations consistently thrive in conditions of rapid change while so many more attain a certain level of success only to get stuck in a rut?

Indeed, there are a number of immediate changes small businesses can — and should — make if they want to see skyrocketing growth and success in 2016.

At last week's Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program graduation at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, N.Y., and again this week at the White House's United State of Women Summit, Buffett offered his number - one tip for business success.

Now, it is * possible * that while most projects fail, most of the money in crypto could wind up going to a smaller number of higher quality projects that become long - term successes — but that is obviously not guaranteed.

Here at Fundera, we've seen a number of wild success stories with debt refinancing — especially when it comes to graduating small business owners from expensive short - term financing to bigger and better loans.

Valued in the billions and the number one yogurt in America, the company is by no means «small» any longer, but it owes at least part of its success to how it manages to seem small and relatable to the public.

He has had success in a small number of relief appearances.

In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.

Later, in his campaign office, occupying the fifth floor of a small office building on East 21st Street in Manhattan, Mr. Massey cited the «brutal reality» that polling numbers and «headwinds fund - raising» made his success unlikely.

And the relative success of the programs in those cities seemed to deliver numbers far smaller than Mr. de Blasio needs for his plan, which calls for the creation or maintenance of 200,000 affordable units in 10 years, to succeed.

«A small number of those close to Mochizuki claim to understand the proof, but they have had little success in explaining their understanding to others,» wrote Peter Woit at Columbia University in a blog post.

This population decline has also been associated with low breeding success, with only a small number of chicks successfully fledging in more recent years.

At the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), which awarded 16 Pathway grants in 2007 and the same number in 2008 — more than any other NIH institute except the National Cancer Institute (NCI)-- the success rate was a smaller 13.2 %.

Johnson and Spagat expected that the success of the attacks, measured in the number of people killed, would cluster around a certain figure: There would be a few small attacks and a few large ones as outliers on either end, but most attacks would pile up in the middle.

Success of this project will provide answers to a number of major evolutionary questions, and will help develop innovative third - generation sequencing approaches for small organisms with large genomes, said Johanna Cannon.

Match.com has a number of sections about this at their site — A very brief glance towards the bottom of their site show sections called Online Dating Safety Tips, Dating Articles and Advice, How Online Dating Works, Success Stories, and Dating Tips (just for a small example).

Young men account for roughly 10 % of sugar babies, though Urick admits male students are less likely to find success through the site due to the small, but growing, number of sugar mommas.

A foul - mouthed send - up of testosterone - infused, small - budgeted»80s action flicks, MacGruber is more of a functional than revelatory success — its script doesn't really substantially or satisfyingly delve into a number of amusing character defects it sets up for its self - involved hero.

It's spawned a number of major successes on the big and small screen but it ran into a few issues with the disappointingly sanitized Amy Schumer vehicle Trainwreck and, more recently, a mostly forgettable second season of Love.

Lastly, a small number of cast and crew reflect on the success of X-Men on the eve of X2, Stewart well - spoken once more in equating the stakes of «Star Trek: The Next Generation» with X-Men — he's somewhat adamant that «Trek» was the bigger gamble.

Instead, we got a number of smaller, less ambitious titles, to various degrees of success.

What's more, critics say, single - sex schools such as the 49ers Academy and the Philadelphia High School for Girls might owe their success to any number of factors: smaller class sizes, specialized teachers, and a higher public profile, which often brings extra revenue.

According to a 2015 report on district - charter collaboration from the Fordham Institute, DPS has «engaged charters more deeply than any of the other cities we studied, due in no small part to a decade of district leadership with a strong belief in the value of a portfolio strategy, a significant number of third - party stakeholders who have encouraged engagement, and an education landscape that gives the district a stake in charter success.»

However, the fact that a small number of schools have experienced a degree of success does not mean that we can simply blame other schools for their failures or ignore what is happening to children outside of school.

And that's because a relatively small number of charter networks — KIPP, Success Academy, and YES Prep to name a few — dominate the sector in ways that over the last decade or so have shaped the natio...

And that's because a relatively small number of charter networks — KIPP, Success Academy, and YES Prep to name a few — dominate the sector in ways that over the last decade or so have shaped the national debates and policy agendas around charters.

However, we believe that a small number of chronically underperforming charter schools threatens the overall success of the broader charter school movement.

We provide effective strategies that help school leaders tell their district's story by defining success, and by prioritizing a small number of evidence - based school quality indicators and benchmarks.

While the number of dropouts is small, their omission from the long - term follow - up study could overstate treatment - group success.

Success of our movement depends on autonomy but this small number of chronically underperforming charters endanger the legislative and policy environment for all charter schools.

CCSA believes that a small number of chronically underperforming charter schools threatens the overall success of the broader charter school movement.

The enterprise began to produce petrol engines but after the success of a small number of race cars built on contract by Wilhelm Maybach for Emil Jellinek, it began to produce the Mercedes model of 1902.

The 22 thousand square foot location is smaller than the average B&N bookstore and has a number of positive things that will make it a success.

The real news is that over the last five years a series of structural changes in the market — a dramatic increase in the number of people able to read e-books, online retailers able to keep books in stock and in print indefinitely, and major publishers abandoning the mid-list — have made it possible for individuals and small organizations to define publishing success differently.

The ability to get our books and short stories out there on our own or through small presses has been our path to success — and yes, a number of indies have become successful.

I'm not a breakout success in any genre, and my books are rarely in the top sales ranking on Amazon, so this demonstrates what you can do with a long term approach of building a back - list that sells small numbers consistently on multiple platforms.

Peter Lynch says much of his overall success was due to a small number of stocks in his portfolio that returned big.

[O] nly a small number of investors maintain the fortitude and client confidence to pursue long - term investment success even at the price of short - term underperformance.

I want you to imagine for a moment that you've already achieved huge success trading for a number of years and you're now living it up in the Caribbean, sipping one of those cliché island cocktails (you know the ones with the little umbrellas)... you've worked your butt off for the last 5 years and you're now managing a small hedge fund worth $ 10,000,000.

Planning is one of the keys to small business success, yet a high number of small business start - ups don't have a proper plan.

The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 developer highlights focus on small number of projects, critical success over commercial gain and industry - changing releases as following in the footsteps of Grand Theft Auto studio

That's a lot of growth in relative numbers, but in absolute numbers, Nintendo has remained a comparatively small company despite of the Wii's success.

This show of recent work by Chantal Joffe continues the small individual figure studies for which she has enjoyed such success, but now with the addition of some larger works in which a number of figures appear together.

«That summer, in the first year of the reign of Titus, there appeared a small band of players who met with some success until they disappeared without trace, leaving behind one of their number.»

Additionally, the current tools and methodologies for accurately measuring the success of residential food waste reduction and diversion rates are early stage and based on a small number of case studies.

Using a Poisson approximation (which is the appropriate limit of the binomial distribution for N large and p small), the probability for any discrete number of «successes» n is p (n) as follows for the case N = 981, p = 0.001 -LRB-.1 % rate of occurrence):

What does success look like, both at a high level (vision) and with a small number of critical must - haves («Done»)?

Consider holding yourself and your team accountable for a small number of relevant Key Performance Indicators for marketing success.

In other words, the traditional law firm operating under the traditional law firm business model is an inhospitable place for many, many lawyers — a place where their success depends not upon their skills as a lawyer but upon their abilities in areas in which they have no training, interest or aptitude, as well as upon their gender and the color of their skin; a place that requires them to sacrifice their personal lives; a place where they do not feel valued or fulfilled in their work; a place and where opportunities are denied to them and only a very small number can reach positions of success.