Sentences with phrase «value their books more»

«Many seem to value their books more than their kids.

For several years I've had a hunch that, although a high price would make people trust and value your book more, they would also be more critical, leading to negative reviews.

Not exact matches

A clear summary of your points is possibly the best thing you can do to not just deliver value to the reader, but also make the book memorable, which helps you sell more books.

Cornell professor and economist Robert Frank, who wrote a book in the 1990s titled The Winner - Take - All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us, made popular the belief that a big portion of the increase in the income gap has to do with the way a global market values its best performers, be they CEOs or athletes or actual performers.

The more I valued a book, the more I learned about myself in letting go of it.

It's a very intriguing and very simple call to action, but it's made even more effective by being paired with the value of a 20 percent discount for guests that book now.

It's been more than four years now since the giddily titled book Go Canada: The Coming Boom in the Toronto Stock Market and How to Profit From It hit store shelves, advising its hopeful readers that within a decade the Toronto Stock Exchange would more than double in value to 30,000 points.

Though somewhat tattered, the book, which has sold for more than $ 2 million in mint condition, was still worth about $ 200,000 - at least until he showed it to his aunt and the pair tore the back cover in a scuffle, reducing the value to a mere $ 137,000.

They also told Knight that they wouldn't be doing any more business together unless they could buy 51 % of Blue Ribbon at book value.

But last year saw more cooperation with competitors (remember the Microsoft appearance at last year's Apple event) in the name of increased value, and new products like the Surface Book.

The article's author, Steve Denning, dissects the main theme of Martin's book, which is that the current practices around maximizing shareholder value actually do more harm than good:

The book has more of a consumer - goods angle, but many of the ideas explored — such as measuring customers» lifetime value — also apply to business - to - business settings.

Or, if you're looking for more suggestions on how to keep your small - town, small - company values as your business grows, check out this post rounding up ideas from the book Small Town Rules by Barry Moltz and Becky McCray.

The Bank of Georgia, a leading bank in the Eurasian country, has had a return on equity of more than 20 % for a number of years, despite trading at book value.

«If your customer base sees more perceived value,» says Cottle, «they will book on for more cycles.»

Ultimate Rewards (earned from the Sapphire Reserve / Preferred) can be used at a fixed - value when booking through UltimateRewards.com but can also be worth more when transferring to travel partners like Hyatt or United where you pay a fixed number of points in those programs which are not dependent on the cash cost of that room / flight otherwise.

Mr. Tilson has co-authored two books, The Art of Value Investing: How the World's Best Investors Beat the Market (2013) and More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times (2009), was one of the authors of Poor Charlie's Almanack (2005), the definitive book on Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, and has written for Forbes, the Financial Times, Kiplinger's, the Motley Fool andTheStreet.com.

And when you book your travel plans through Chase Ultimate Rewards ®, you'll get 25 % more value for the points you're redeeming.

Points are worth 1.5 cents apiece when redeemed for travel booked through Chase, or you can transfer them on a 1:1 basis to a dozen hotel and airline partners, possibly giving you even more value.

A 2012 Credit Suisse Research Institute report evaluated the performance of 2,360 companies globally over six years and found that companies with one or more women on boards delivered higher average returns on equity, lower leverage, better average growth and higher price / book value multiples.

Each point you redeem for travel booked through Chase Ultimate Rewards is worth $.0125 (one and a quarter cents), which means that 100 points equals $ 1.25 in redemption value, and points are worth 25 % more than if redeemed for cash.

«This is more than a leadership book, it's more than a book, it's a guide to creating a meaningful life, it's about achieving your values and leading others to achieve theirs.

The biggest opportunity to create more value is through my severance negotiation book.

In other words, does a company have more intrinsic value than book value?

He is on top of our list too, but once you've read seven books on Buffett, is the eighth one going to add more value?

Then, in our view, our company should ultimately be worth considerably more than tangible book value.»

Beyond knowing the value they place on books written by other people, one of the biggest upsides for us is that many of the Investment Masters have also put those same ideas into one of more of their own books.

UVE has a price to economic book value (PEBV) of just 1.2, which implies that the market expects the company to grow after - tax operating profit (NOPAT) by no more than 20 % for the remainder of its corporate life.

After a 10 % drop from its peak, GOOGL's share price of $ 1,070 gives it a price to economic book value (PEBV) of 1.6, which implies that the company's after - tax profit (NOPAT) will never grow more than 60 % above its current level.

For goodwill its more murky... Goodwill is a form of intangible assets that occur when a company acquires another and pays above book value for the company.

They've been selling properties at deep discounts to already written - down book values, but at prices high enough to more than justify today's depressed share price.

It is no surprise that OZRK trade at more that 2x book value and has a large constituency among institutional investors, but also has a pretty volatile stock with a beta of 1.7.

I further urge all of the other quasi-analysts that look to silver as «nothing more than a byproduct» of giant copper, zinc, and lead mining operations might want to consider whether the notional value of the paper «hedges» carried on the books of the bullion banks might not represent the ultimate discounting mechanism.

In fact, I find Guy's book amazing because it talks less about value investing rules and more on a value investor's character development.

Some Fundamental Weighted products will be more sophisticated than simply weighting on sales, earnings, book value or dividends.

You can also redeem your rewards to book travel directly through Chase for the same value, or transfer your rewards to other Chase cards with more valuable redemption options.

You can book hotels, rental cars, cruises or airfare, and you'll get 50 percent more value when you redeem your points for travel through the portal: 100 points is worth $ 1.50.

Even using the $ 61 number, AIG stock at $ 58, to us looks inexpensive because we believe that an insurance company with a valuable brand name ought to be worth somewhat more than book value.

As you can see from the chart, on average the impact of changes in the stock's underlying fundamentals (e.x. book value or earnings changes) makes up more than 100 % of the change in valuation spread!

However, the Citi ThankYou ® Premier Credit Card gives users 25 % more value when used to book travel through the ThankYou ® Travel Center - boosting point value to $ 0.0125.

Shareholder Approval Requirements: NYSE American requires a listed company to obtain the approval of its shareholders for certain types of securities issuances, including private placements that may result in the issuance of common shares (or securities convertible into common shares) equal to 20 % or more of presently outstanding shares for less than the greater of book or market value of the shares.

While it is more difficult to ascertain the sustainability of high growth, it doesn't mean a high growth, high PE and high price to book value stock is not a «value» investment.

On that basis alone, AIG stock would be positioned to more than double over seven years just by returning to book value.

For example, François's new right - wing colleague, Godefroy Lempereur, introduces him to a nativist literature heavy on demographic studies purporting to show that «belief in a transcendent being conveys a genetic advantage: that couples who follow one of the three religions of the Book and maintain patriarchal values have more children than atheists or agnostics.

While the more educated may smirk about such articles, there is a lot of value in helping people analyze and understand the book upon which they place their beliefs, especially when it becomes legislation and policy that affects people outside the religious bubble.

The official publication of the Christian Booksellers» Association recently carried an article on trends in religious publishing which predicted more books on homosexuality «down the road (maybe five years or so)» and noted that just as there has been evidence of more compassion toward divorced persons, «Christians in the future will be saying homosexuality is still wrong but God loves homosexuals and values them as persons» (Bookstore Journal, January 1976).

But the value of the book lies in the interpretation of Jesus» teaching as a whole, and this interpretation becomes more rather than less convincing if we ascribe to Jesus himself more of the Gospel content than Professor Bultmann is ready to do.

He is the author / editor of fifteen books, including Religious Values and Valuations and of more than fifty articles.

Mays responds that if we remember Whitehead's early mathematical training, then it is evident that the values he later deals with are more akin to «the sort one meets within books on mathematics and mathematical logic, than those found in works on ethics, aesthetics and theology» (PW 61/59).

The second thesis of my book was that homosexuals, rather than being somehow a menace to the values of society and the family, as Christians have tended to assume, have, as a part of God's creative plan, special gifts and qualities and a very positive contribution to make to the development of society (cf. also my article «Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and the Future: The Creative Role of the Gay Community in Building a More Humane Society,» in A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, edited by Robert Nugent [Crossroad, 1984]-RRB-.