If you saved $ 1,000 you would end up
with more than that a few years later from the appreciation of the investment as well as income that the investment paid you.
Now,
with more than a few years of work under my belt, it was fun to see how some of these gems held up (or not) over time.
If you're a working professional
with more than a few years of workplace experience, I recommend not having only one resume.
Not exact matches
«Idol,» which averaged
more than 30 million weekly viewers at its 2006 peak and ranked No. 1 for nine consecutive
years, averaged about 11 million last season (still enough by today's standards to land it in the top 20, but
with fewer advertiser - favored younger viewers).
Today, I am
more than halfway through my child - rearing
years, and pretty soon my two older children will be off to college, which means
with fewer distractions I can dedicate myself to another endeavor.
Average five -
year growth rate among the 2001 Inc 500 that had Venture - capital funding at start - up: 4,619 % CEO
with an M.B.A.: 2,542 % CEO who took 5 days or
fewer of vacation yearly: 2,385 % Open - book management: 2,283 % CEO who took
more than 10 days of vacation yearly: 1,983 %
Two
years ago, the house, constructed from untreated woods and equipped
with water - saving laundry equipment and compact lighting, was the subject of a story in the Burlington Free Press under the headline «Greenhouse» — which raised the hackles of many hard - core Vermonters, including
more than a
few former Seventh Generation employees.
Take just a
few minutes out of your day to watch this short trailer announcing Firsts, a multi-media project from TIME featuring candid interviews
with 45 extraordinary women,
more than a
year in the making.
A
few years ago, HP execs said the company would compete head on
with Amazon Web Services in public cloud computing, a model in which businesses rent computing capacity from a provider like Amazon, Microsoft or Google (GOOG) rather
than building out
more of their own data center capabilities.
That's according to David Noto, owner of Altaneve, a premium Italian sparkling wine that launched in the U.S. a
year and a half ago and to date has sold 2,400 cases in
more than 100 northeastern U.S. locations,
with plans to expand into Las Vegas and California within the next
few months.
ARMED
with the latest technology, minerals explorers today gather
more data in just a
few hours
than would have been imaginable to field geologists a
few years ago.
Founder and chief inventor Sir James Dyson had been tinkering
with the design and considered coming to market a
few years ago, but he held off until he felt he had
more than just a me - too product.
But after a
few years of rubbing elbows
with tech bros and wannabe visionaries, I've found there's often
more to learn from founders
with ambitions less grandiose
than changing the world.
But companies are starting
with more humble ambitions and
more realistic growth strategies now
than they were even just a
few years ago.
One common device: rules mandating that workers
with more than a
few bucks» worth of stock be paid off over five
years or
more.
There's also a South Korean study from a
few years ago involving
more than 25,000 people, which found that drinking moderate amounts of coffee each day was associated
with having
fewer of the early warning signs of heart disease.
Personally, I've been impressed
with Ubisoft's presentations for the past
few years running and the company — which has
more than half its employees in Canada — is once again looking strong for 2014 and 2015.
As we reported here on Inc.com a
few years back, Kiwi inventor and entrepreneur Glenn Martin has been tinkering
with his design for a personal jetpack in his garage for
more than 30
years, using his wife as a test pilot.
Thankfully, I can make a lot
more than that
with the things I'm doing (still teaching a
few classes per
year, leading masterminds, and writing and speaking).
However, Halligan's compensation ($ 18,000 /
year toward conference attendance, $ 2,500 /
year FSA, full health insurance
with paid premiums, 30 days of PTO, to name a
few) sounds
more like magical thinking
than solutions that could actually work in start - ups.
We have a country that started from scratch,
with just 4 million people living here in 1790, and ended up
with close to 25 percent of the world's GDP and
more than 300 million residents a
few hundred
years later.
Under the new changes, «small creditor» — now defined as institutions
with less
than $ 2 billion in assets originating
fewer than 500 first - lien mortgages per calendar
year — would now apply to a 2,000 - loan annual origination limit, effectively easing the path for
more banks and credit unions to comply
with the ability - to - repay rule.
Armed
with a concrete system, thanks to Tom and Nick, tireless working coaches Mike and Sarah D, and the whole Rock Star team behind me, I've been accomplishing far
more, in a
few short
years,
than I could have ever imagined had I been on my own.
That's why, ultimately, I can't really blame Jana Partners for pushing for a break - up... Qualcomm's licenses by themselves would be a money gusher, at least for a
few years, and while I think most investors are
more long - term oriented
than people think, I can absolutely understand the temptation — and associated price premium — associated
with money in hand now.
The Aussie will decline to 72 US cents by
year - end as restrained economic growth and inflation mean the Reserve Bank of Australia will take a «
few years» to catch up
with the Federal Reserve in raising borrowing costs, said Philip Moffitt, Asia - Pacific head of fixed income in Sydney at the firm, which oversees
more than $ US1 trillion.
The numbers bear this out: «89.4 % of the companies
with more than 100
years of history are businesses employing
fewer than 300 people.»
FOMC members now seem
more eager
than ever to «normalize» policy, that is raise short term rates into line
with historic norms and, to the extent possible, unburden their balance sheet of the huge bond holding they had acquired over the last
few years.
So we are dealing
with the irreconcilable fact that the Obama position threatens to lower living standards from 10 % to 20 % over the coming
few years — making the United States look
more like Greece, Ireland and Latvia
than what was promised in the last presidential election.
«Three
years ago, Revolut was nothing
more than a
few coders
with a crazy ambition to disrupt financial services forever,» Revolut's Chief Blogging Officer Rob Braileanu wrote.
These days, earning links through quality content publication — both on your site and off — gets you substantially
more value
with zero risk, but it also costs a lot
more than link building tactics of the past
few years.
If you've been buying vehicles for
more than a
few years, you'll probably look back at your earlier experiences
with rose - coloured glasses.
As I sat
with a
few people and «war - gamed» what the next recession will look like, a general agreement emerged that the credit markets will be far
more volatile
than they were last time, even though banks are better capitalized today
than they were 10
years ago.
With operating cash flow down by
more than half over the past
few years, management has a lot of work to do if its focus is truly generating higher returns.
I am told that
more than a
few PC MLAs are not pleased
with their new colleagues of convenience, who have spent the past two
years attacking and embarrassing them as the opposition.
If CDS readings remain muted then we are dealing
with country - specific flare ups, but if they spike to levels higher
than what has occurred over the last
few years and gold surges we need to become
more defensive.
Of our 53 companies, 22 ended last
year with fewer dollars of net debt
than they started the
year with, and
more importantly, slightly
more than half reduced their net debt relative to their annual cash flow.
But the good technology behind Vibrant remained, and when Clorox tried to enter the laundry detergent business a
few years later, P&G modified that technology to create Tide
with Bleach, which grew into a business worth
more than half a billion dollars.
Suzanne Simpson, another pioneer in the resale industry, says she's been able to pay local women
more than $ 4.6 million in the past
few years with her resale brands like Clothes Mentor in Ocoee, Florida.
In the
few years since The Yard first opened, the coworking industry has mushroomed,
with Manhattan - based WeWork as the industry giant,
with more than 110 locations around the world and an estimated valuation of $ 20 billion.
However, now China's total bank debt stands at $ 25 trillion ($ 11 trillion
more than in 2008),
with many U.S. economists (52 % in a recent survey) concerned that China will experience a debt crisis within the next
few years.
If that is why you disagree
with me, I muct ask, why do those
few pages mean
more to you
than the millions of pages produced by scientists over the past hundred +
years?
Another example was alluded to before: the fact that our world seems to have taken shape over a period of many billions of
years, rather
than having been created in essentially its present form a
few thousand
years ago, provides evidence against the view that the creation of our world required omnipotent coercive power; this fact is much
more consistent
with the view that the divine creative power is solely the power of persuasion, the kind of power we can experience working in our own lives.
i wonder whih god will be
more pleased
with its slave — the one who murdered a man for his beliefs or the one who allowed his follower to die for his faith either way — god is a man made belief system that is only a
few thousand
years old — and in that time, no one single thing has killed
more humans,
than a man claiming to know the will of some kind of god Faith is good thing, faith in one's self.
Moreover,
with religions that have been around for
more than a
few generations and have weathered
more than a
few schisms, the deeper you get into them the
more you find that the way - out - wacky stuff at the beginning is of a piece
with the insights that have kept people coming back to them over the
years, and that those insights include vital truths not generally available elsewhere.
In the many
years of the Dulles Colloquium, there have been
few sessions
more scintillating and intellectually rewarding
than a recent day
with René Girard.
It is not difficult to imagine that within the next
few years this pattern will become almost universal in Reformed churches, together
with an even wider observance of the Christian
Year than is now the case (and the present practice is far
more extensive
than it was a decade ago).
You know me, I like experimenting, but I have to say it was
more fun
with matcha a
few years ago, when it was less familiar
than it is now — here in the UK at least.
But then, there were
more than a
few magical moments on each trip where I really saw what my parents had been trying to show us
year after
year after
year — that there are some really awesomely gorgeous places in America, steeped
with history and beauty — that outside of the craziness of every day life there is a world where none of the petty stuff matters, and what's really important is being together as a family appreciating some of the
more basic pleasures of life.
When I HATED them as a kid, I would be so grossed out when my mom would order mushroom pizza, but then I feel in love
with all mushrooms a
few years ago and yea Although, I still like mushrooms raw much
more than cooked!
One comment I've read
more than a
few times over the
years of creating recipes for the blog is while energy bars, balls, and bites are well received as a healthy, easy, go - to snack, they almost always contain nuts leaving those
with nut allergies out on the sidelines
with tears welled up in their eyes, sad that...