Sentences with phrase «than happy as»

I've been more than happy as an owner of PepsiCo since initiating a position in 2013.

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One thing's for certain: today's teens are not doing business as usual, and in order to keep them happy, you need to do a lot more than get an endorsement from Justin Bieber.

On a scale out of seven, the magazine staff rated 4.8, meaning we're about as happy as employees in the ever - downtrodden manufacturing sector and significantly less happy than the normal knowledge - based worker.

As the corporate workplace gets younger and more mobile, companies are figuring out that keeping staff happy will require more than simply good pay and vacation time.

As they say, it's better to be right than happy.

And honestly, I was happy I did that much, and saw it as X number of days more than I'd written the month before.

Aspirationals aren't focused so much on ownership as on experience, so they are happy to zip around in a Zipcar, stay in an Airbnb rather than a hotel, and rent a party dress.

As a result of our willingness to change course and adapt to the market, the Happy Family brand has expanded from those first few stores in New York to more than 17,000 stores nationwide, including Target and Whole Foods Market.

As science suggests, those memories are bound to make you happier than you expect, but Rubin also notes that «we tend to write down the happier things,» which also focuses the mind on the positive aspects of life, boosting joy with very little effort.

In a way, Elite SEM was conceived as rebuttal to everything its founder and CEO Ben Kirshner found lacking in corporate America, where he met managers and executives more than happy to «slash and burn people left and right» in a bid to make more money for themselves.

You know him as Potsie, but Anson Williams has achieved more than his role on «Happy Days.»

After performing the same happiness - inducing activities, the people who signed up for the happiness study — the group Lyubomirsky saw as more «motivated» to become happier — gained more from the study than those who signed up for the other exercise.

Daily conversations became enjoyable, negotiations became easier and my network grew faster than ever - as people were happy to make favorable introductions to their contacts.

«The traders are happy as long as they win more than they lose,» he says.

They found that those who had a solid reason to be unhappy, such as a recent bereavement, were again less productive than their happier counterparts.

Happy customers equal big profits, as they more than double the spending of their passive peers.

Not only is a smile more inviting than a frown, it makes others happy as well.

She found little evidence to support the idea that owners participate in civic and community activities any more than renters, and after controlling for factors such as income, housing quality and health, she concluded that owners were no happier.

Another study recently cited in the Harvard Business Review found that happy, thriving employees «demonstrated 16 % better overall performance (as reported by their managers) and 125 % less burnout (self - reported) than their peers.

Earlier in the day, Phelps's close friend, training partner and fellow U.S. co-captain Allison Schmitt had talked about how she had never seen a happier smile on Phelps than after his 200 - butterfly win on Tuesday night — but made clear that he was as intensely focused as ever.

And the NFL is more than happy to push its copyright as far as it possibly can, knowing that Twitter and other networks probably won't put up a fight.

Simultaneously, the conservative news media sought to lock in its audience by characterizing the mainstream press as an industry comprising dishonest liberals — something with which the GOP was more than happy to go along.

Happy birthday from Bob to Erica (a year younger than mass - produced personal computers) and Heather (twice the age of Google); to Christine's son Matt (a year younger than The Simpsons); to Vikram (a year younger than the International Space Station); to Pamela's childhood friend Bert (twice the age of Macintosh computers); to Marian's son Bryan (the same age as Kobe Bryant); and to our editor who makes this newsletter possible, Rosa (one - sixth the age of The Atlantic), from the other members of the Daily team.

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I'm more than happy with my P2P investments, and will continue to add capital and build that as core piece of my passive income generating machine.

«As a seed investor, we were more than happy to join the next round for Storj with a great line up of co-investors.

... When people in their status updates use more positive words — or fewer negative words — then that day as a whole is counted as happier than usual.»

This raise should be more than enough to compensate cost of living expenses, and more importantly, the cost of keeping them happy and as long - term employees.»

One way to look at the issue is this: rather than limiting work flex, working to understand how flexible work options can make your company more productive, efficient, and even happier might be a wiser use of your energy and talents as a leader in your organization.

The graph above shows that mining stocks are simply plunging in value, an occurrence that we are more than happy to take advantage of, and we have closed 8 winning trades so far this year as a result, each of them bringing in over 80 % in profits on average.

As I was happy that it earns me more than my cash bank deposit accounts with them, it still does not solve my inflation concern, yes worry.

They are more than happy to sell when stocks are cheap or buy when they are expensive, as long as they can express their near - term market opinion.

It is bizarre that you whine about me judging you as immature and assume I'm doing it because I think all men are immature, while you're more than happy to place all woman into a block of «all women do this.»

But Lucas seems content to find his solace «in the music,» and he's happy as long as he can convince folks of one thing: «I want people to know I am more than a boy in a wheelchair.»

if anyone have any questions about islam I will be more than happy to anwer them as mucha s I can.

At the same time, marriages and families have become essentially emotional and egalitarian relationships rather than institutional and hierarchical ones, Thus, when marriage and family fail to satisfy, when they do not make all members feel «happy» and «fulfilled,» then these arrangements begin to dissolve, or at least to be regarded as needing repair.

I never heard Richard speak of that skull or its terse motto, but he seemed more than others to live his life with its kind of awareness» and maybe, for that reason, as a happier man, with a more exquisitely lively sense of humor.

Multiple studies indicate that couples who describe their marriage as «egalitarian» are more likely to classify it as a happy one than those who describe their marriage as «traditional.»

As adults, we often have to re-learn the freedom to do what makes us happy, rather than just trying to compete with others or avoid failure and embarrassment.

As for fine tuning within the universe, how do you know that it is actually fine - tuned rather than a happy accident that allows us to exist here?

In the past of earlier decades every nation or individuals of any nation were happy to deal or trade or buy from Islamic traders marking them as being most honest and truthful... that's how they were known as traders who's their sea trade extended from Indian ocean to the China Sea... those other than the land transportation by Camel Caravans moving between the South and North as well as between the far East and the far West...!!

Richard Stein, an ordinand in his final year of training for ministry, described the process as an enriching one that led him to embrace a more evangelical theology than the one he had arrived with: «I came into college with a fairly open view towards homosexuality, and even said I'd be happy to perform gay marriages.

I know that there is nothing better for them [mankind] than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; also that it is God's gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.

Her book is a strong counterargument to Tolstoy's dictum that all happy families are alike, while each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way — as if unhappy families were more interesting than happy ones.

If the married persons in his congregation were asked to rate the relative happiness of their nuptial relationship, fewer than half would rate them as «very happy» (Ibid.

It is in us, in our ways and our works, that the estrangement exists, not in God, who is deeper in us than our own selves, as Augustine, in a happier mood, rightly said in his Confessions.

However there do seem to have been multiple studies saying that the religious self - evaluate as happier than atheists, I think.

Guess I'll have to think of him as weird uncle Harold the snake oil salesman, who is more than happy to part the gullible from their money.

An economics that understands this destiny will yield societies happier and healthier than the ones that see man as an animal raping the earth and breeding to his own destruction.