Sentences with phrase «spent on yourself»

Is it being spent on dividends or reinvested in the company?

Owning your home debt - free is a great feeling but money spent on extra mortgage payments isn't available for more lucrative investments.

IDC believes that by 2021, $ 46 billion will be spent on cognitive and artificial intelligence systems, which reached $ 12.5 billion in 2017, 60 percent higher than 2016.

While this has not always been the case, figures published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggest that between 1998 and 2008, the amount spent on personal care per individual soared by 54 % in the United States.

«From my knowledge, banks don't verify that you spent it on what you say you spent it on,» said Dave Stolz, an accountant and member of the American Institute of CPAs personal financial specialist credential committee.

By eating at home, you save money that would otherwise be spent on tax and tip — and you usually save calories, too.

Gartner believes that by 2020 there will be 20.4 billion (with a «b»...) connected devices, and IDC believes that by 2021, $ 1.4 trillion will be spent on IoT technologies.

In addition, a lot of money has been spent on infrastructure, but a huge number of projects have been stalled — India has more than $ 500 billion in nonproductive infrastructure assets, including unfinished roads and bridges.

Less than two thirds of the costs are spent on vet visits, leaving the remaining two - thirds up to retailers and service businesses.

He says the sweet spot for measurables is six to 10 metrics: anything less isn't rigorous enough; any more is probably wasting time better spent on actually, you know, innovating.

Successfully responding to these maddening critiques takes time and energy that could be better spent on, well, anything else, and in many cases, not a little self - abnegation.

According to a recent Millard Brown study, 47 percent of consumer media screen time is now spent on mobile devices.

Then, he asks them to go back over their calendars for the past six months to a year and pinpoint how much time they had spent on achieving those goals.

A few extra bucks spent on the cab for the stop will save far more on water costs.

Reconstruction here has been held up by bureaucracy and corruption, while billions of euros were spent on unpopular housing projects, or «new towns», with rows of identical dwellings built on special quake - proof platforms.

In some parts of the country (hi, New York and the rest of the Northeast), the percentage spent on housing can be even higher than the 37 % average.

«How does «eliminating vacancies» save $ 93 million when zero dollars were being spent on the vacant spots in the first place?»

There's more time and energy for the things that grow the business and inspire workers and leaders and less time spent on those things that are old, stagnant habits.

Time is spent on identifying and breaking through road blocks, inspiring people to share more and working together to resolve pain points.

This card earns 2x points per dollar spent on just about all travel and dining purchases, and 1x point on everything else.

In plainer language, it's what you made from sales divided by how much you spent on marketing and fulfillment.

The problem with quantitative easing is fairly obvious to all: it hasn't really stimulated the economy, which despite the trillions of dollars spent on bank bailouts, is still tanking.

Haik and Moretti say Mic is also tracking time spent on a page along with other metrics such as repeat visitors, scroll depth (how far a reader gets into a story before they click away), and the number of times content is copied and pasted into a post, tweet, or email.

Like the detrimental physical effects of sitting, the mental health consequences of so much time spent on your butt can not be relieved just by joining a gym, according to the study.

After 16 years and $ 120 billion spent on the reconstruction of Afghanistan since the US invasion, the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces are alarmingly unprepared to take on the resurgent Taliban that's slowly clawed back territory since NATO combat operations ended there in 2014.

Great companies are immune to the vicissitudes of the stock market, and the sell - off should further support the idea that your time is best spent on business fundamentals, no matter what.

The effort spent on defining your target list will be rewarded with better results at a lower cost.

Meanwhile, the amount spent on mobile games worldwide is skyrocketing, projected to go from $ 5.6 billion in 2010 to $ 11.4 billion by 2014.

Not including time spent on this campaign, we were in it for $ 774.

RescueTime will record how you are spending your time, by tracking time spent on websites, and in applications, and give you a detailed report of how much time you are spending on each activity.

Maybe she does a little further analysis on some other tool to check social media engagements, or look at time spent on certain pages on your site.

The housing projects were expensive, costing 2,000 - 3,000 euros per square meter, and residents and architects say the money could have been better spent on demolishing and rebuilding old houses or on more modest but temporary dwellings.

Profits realized by government can and often are spent on its citizens, but for anti-government zealots like U.S. presidential contender Ron Paul, that's reason enough to get rid of the Fed.

«Most of our time was spent on choosing the destination and the apartment, and very little on mentoring teams to make sure they [were] coming up with good ideas and the execution [was] going to be good.»

BT, for example, believes that # 15 will be added to the U.K. economy for every # 1 spent on super-fast broadband, while recent economic growth in countries with advanced networks, such as South Korea, can be at least partially attributed to super-fast connectivity.

Some women shy away from jobs in fields that require long workweeks, knowing they won't have the time: a 10 percent cut in free time for women reduces their share in high - hour occupations by about 14 percent relative to men, according to the researcher's model.In total, that difference in time spent on at - home labor results in an 11 percentage point gender wage gap, their analysis estimates.

In 2016, the limit was $ 24 million, which may sound like a lot, but in reality was only 2 percent of the $ 1.2 billion that Republicans spent on the 2016 presidential race.

The technical feasibility of automation is best analyzed by looking not at occupations as a whole, but at the amount of time spent on individual activities, and the degree to which these could be automated by using technology that currently exists and adapting it to individual work activities.

Weddings Budgets for a walk down the aisle are tight this year, according to an Arizona - based research firm the Wedding Report, which found the average amount couples spent on their dream wedding decreased by at least 10 % in 2009.

While the card comes with the same sign - up bonus, it earns points on everyday spending faster, nabbing a higher 3x points per dollar spent on travel and dining purchases, and 1x on everything else.

Similar criticisms were levied at the U.S. government in the 1940s, when the debate was over whether billions should be spent on building a national interstate highway system.

CB: In a recent op - ed for the Toronto Star, you wrote, «It is important to remember, as much as we conveniently ignore the fact, that in health care, money spent on one thing simply can't be spent on another.»

A total of $ 170 million has been spent on research for the project so far, according to Boeing.

It's much better to learn the lesson of money poorly spent on a $ 15 toy than a bigger - ticket purchase as an adult, she said.

The biggest chunk of money will be spent on print advertising.

But Branson says afternoons are always spent on the beach, oftentimes playing chess with his kids.

... when researchers interviewed more than 150 people about their recent purchases, they found that money spent on activities — such as concerts and group dinners out — brought far more pleasure than material purchases like shoes, televisions, or expensive watches.

Every dollar spent on vaccines yields $ 44 in economic benefits.

CEO Eric Gilmore echoed the sentiment: «Our approach is to give people superpowers through AI - powered software and eliminate or automate all of the countless hours spent on redundant manual tasks.»

Think about how many hours you've spent on Spotify, streaming music, and how it was completely free.