Sentences with phrase «than the hope of»

In his famous book, «The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,» Keynes writes, «a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than on a mathematical expectation, whether moral or hedonistic or economic... if the animal spirits are dimmed and the spontaneous optimism falters, leaving us to depend on nothing but a mathematical expectation, enterprise will fade and die; though fears of loss may have a basis no more reasonable than hopes of profit had before.»

Please think long and hard before paying a bankruptcy attorney a large amount of fees for nothing more than the hope of getting your car back.

In particular heat deep in the ocean is far more likely to come from under sea volcanic activity than any hope of the suns heat getting down 700 meters or so.

The modern business can't afford to make expenditures on legal services with no more than the hope of a good return on investment; GCs need to be able to demonstrate the value of the money spent.

Not exact matches

«The closing of these plants will do more to save lives than I could ever hope to achieve as a physician working in an emergency room.»

Kroetsch hopes to use the cash to more than double staff and the rate of sales growth.

How to Build Better Business Relationships: Listen More Than You Talk «We all want to extol our strengths, our virtues in hopes of impressing others and, ultimately, getting more business,» says Alisa Cohn, an executive coach.

Innovation is about «small ball» — a succession of base hits and quick scores rather than swinging for the fences and hoping for home runs.

PHOTO ESSAY: A month before the Telstra Perth Fashion Festival, more than 150 models fronted an industry panel in the hope of being selected to walk the runway in one of the fashion parades during the six - day event.

There's a great deal to be gleaned from people who have actually done what you're hoping to do rather than from newbies who are inventing their «careers» as they roll along, hoping at the same time to get their businesses built and scaled before they run out of time, cheap money or good ideas.

Apple shareholder Ross Gerber said on Thursday that Apple sold a «perfectly fine» number of phones during the quarter, but earnings were a bit less than he was hoping for.

What sets elite performers who turn out prodigious quantities of valuable work apart from normal worker bees, who despite our best intentions and long hours, consistently produce less than we hoped?

Getting the governance structure right was crucial; no one firm owns more than 15 % of Aequitas, and the hope of generating huge returns was not their primary motivation for investing.

But, unfortunately with most social media sites, and especially Facebook, this is nothing more than a cruel myth that puts misplaced hope into the hearts of young marketers everywhere

Proponents of the bill were hoping a passage by the legislature would have been a call to action for other states, as more than 20 others have considered passing their own Internet privacy bills.

It offers a rare light of hope for young people with more debts than financial assets.

Only his wisdom was directed towards those hoping to become masters of business rather than masters of a mystical, intergalactic knighthood.

When I ask what he hopes to be doing in three years time, Mast replies that he wants to continue to make chocolate that is more delicious and of better quality than what mainstream confectioners sell today.

Hope for exporting Canada's surplus production, especially from the mammoth shale fields in northeastern B.C., now rests on the construction of terminals on the B.C. coast to liquefy the gas and ship it to Asia, where prices are currently six times higher than they are here.

Affiliates do more than toss up a list of links and hope for the best.

«EU leaders hoping for a significant change of policy (rather than tone) are likely to be disappointed,» he added.

But rather than the open - and - shut case you were hoping for, what likely followed was a barrage of questions in heated cross-examination: «Do you even know what it takes to take care of a puppy?»

Rather than having gamers fork over the $ 60 most traditional video games cost, Quick Hit is offering its version for free and hopes to raise revenue through online advertising and the sale of in - game extras.

By harnessing the power of the multiple, Smith, in turn, hopes to do more than merely change his business mix and fatten the firm's margins.

Rather than using the samples to screen for illegal drug use or preexisting medical conditions, TAT hopes to use its recently developed human - cloning technology to address a critical lack of available talent.

The great disappointment of the last half century has been the account owner's unwitting surrender of personal responsibility for retirement to someone else, anyone else, surrendered with the hope that the elective someone else cares more about their money than they do.

Democrats could theoretically have voted for a Republican in hopes of upsetting Trump or ensuring his win, rather than vote for Clinton if they thought it was a done deal.

Her further advice is to look at the company's mission statement (we hope it's clearer than these) and make a list of ways you could contribute to that mission in your first 30 days on the job.

Torrone thinks you could spend thousands of dollars on parts and build a device less powerful than Kinect, and suggests that Microsoft almost certainly subsidizes the $ 149 cost of the unit, hoping to profit via game sales.

Macron has said he hopes to pool liability for various kinds of debt: a completed banking union would ensure bailout costs for individual financial institutions would be distributed across the continent rather than borne by individual countries, and the so - called Eurobonds would allow national governments to borrow money against a joint continental credit rating.

The compound annual growth rate for beer overall was less than 1 % between 2010 and 2016, but low and no beers provided a glimmer of hope at 5.2 %, according to insights firm GlobalData.

What consumers seem to understand even better than some of us in the business is that putting your name on a product says you're proud of it and you hope they like it.

Yet, thousands of CEOs continue to work all along the hose, hoping that some of their effort is actually useful rather than finding the kink and applying all of their time and effort at that point.

BlackBerry launched the Classic less than two years ago, hoping it would resonate with customers yearning for a physical keyboard in a world of touchscreens.

Of course, I was also hoping they might bring some customers and leads with them, allowing my company to grow faster than it would if I hired salespeople with no experience in the industry.

In order to answer as many questions as possible and provide more information, webmasters will call upon writers to produce more content than ever before in the hopes of making their websites as invaluable as ever.

I'm suggesting you retire years earlier than everyone else, by retiring in your business — so that you can start living the life you love today — instead of hoping to retire some day years down the road.

But the company is hoping to give those investors a boost through a sort of mathematical illusion: A recent study of Acorn's customers found that people were much more likely to agree to set aside $ 5 per day than $ 150 per month, even though they'd end up contributing the same amount either way.

The sum is going to Boom Supersonic, Japan Airlines said Tuesday, in hopes that the Denver - based upstart will successfully develop a plane that could cut flight times in half with cruising speeds of Mach 2.2 — more than 1,450 miles an hour.

With the rise of the Law of Attraction / positive thinking movement and the pressure to set high, difficult to reach goals, leaders can easily set targets that are based on little more than blind hope.

Think of customers as friends you hope to influence by remembering the following wisdom from Dale Carnegie: «You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.»

All too often, I see principals of advisory firms convince themselves that they have a succession plan in place when, in fact — more often than not — what they have is more of a vague idea of what they hope will happen.

SAAS and B2B companies are the vanguard of the «content machine» movement, but we can hope that other companies follow suit and begin «writing for a reason,» rather than wasting readers time with meaningless content.

Nothing did more damage to Kalanick's reputation than Uber's response to a reported rape in India; an underling of Kalanick's obtained the victim's medical records in hope of proving she was faking her claim to hurt Uber and help a competing service.

The company, which launched Versa worldwide in April, is hoping the smartwatch would have more of a mass appeal than its Ionic device.

As a fully - fledged laptop, I was hoping for a better selection of ports than Microsoft provided here.

There is a shred of hope for pay services to cling to in the MoffettNathanson results, however: Namely, the fact that the third - quarter figure was substantially better than the 605,000 fewer subscribers the firm reported in the second quarter of this year, news that helped to trigger a sell - off in television - related stocks.

EMC is no doubt hoping that Glass Lewis's endorsement of the deal will be enough to persuade undecided EMC shareholders who are skeptical that a newly combined company would be able to better compete in a fast - changing technology landscape than either Dell or EMC by themselves.

Now I'm sure that it's more than a little frustrating to all those folks waiting in the wings or right outside the office — hoping that their request or project is still on the top of the pile — or worse yet, getting ready to dump some new problem in their boss's lap.

Fuel theft is fast becoming one of Mexico's most pressing economic and security dilemmas, sapping more than $ 1 billion in annual revenue from state coffers, terrorizing workers and deterring private investment in aging refineries that the government, following a 2014 energy reform, hoped instead would be thriving with foreign capital.