Yet he believes many have reached a point of diminishing returns.
This is the number where people feel financially secure and once they've reached it; there are diminishing returns on salaries exceeding that amount.
Tropical rain forests are diminishing at an alarming rate because of the human need for food and demands for timber, energy, minerals, and other resources.
Yet the advantages of dynasty are diminishing.
And more, since greenhouse gas emissions show no signs of diminishing.
Most business managers recognize the point of diminishing returns, but they don't tend to recognize that in hiring.
In 1738, Daniel, trying to solve a problem in probability theory and the theory of gambling by use of the calculus, stumbled on the concept of the law of diminishing marginal utility of money.
But even there, the risk is of diminishing returns.
But the main reason is a diminishing Labour supply, helped in the delta by an uptick in Labour activism.
The captain, having lost two brave fellows of his troop, was afraid of diminishing it too much by pursuing this plan to get information of the residence of their plunderer.
People are frantically looking for fun fixes, but that’s the law of diminishing returns.
Some people ascribe the fighting in Darfur - and the consequent displacement of its people - to climate change, as people struggle over diminishing resources.
People are frantically looking for fun fixes, but that means they operate under the law of diminishing returns.
And yet another way of diminishing responsibility is anonymity.
Her schedule — up at 5:30 a.m. and returning emails into the wee hours — is grueling, but she worries she may still be working below the point of diminishing returns.
Like all other human activities, translation is subject to the law of diminishing returns.
Flashing near his study, outside the Los Angeles branch of the Hard Rock cafe, was an ever-diminishing neon number, representing the remaining area of rainforest.
First, beware the managerial tendency to "over-fit the curve" — a statistical term that refers to the diminishing value of gathering additional data once you find a pattern.
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