Brad Stone

There are lots of retailers that are now scrambling to emulate the Amazon model, so Amazon does not have a monopoly on same-day distribution or broad selection or low prices. All that said, there are advantages that accrue to the largest player, so I don't see much in the way of Amazon slowing down.

American Journalist

Craig Brown

As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such as houses, always come with tiny little keys, specially designed to give you the slip.

English Critic

Josh Radnor

It's strange to look back over a full season. Our characters have accrued all these memories, but so have we, the actors. And sometimes the character memories and the actor memories bleed into each other.

American Director

William Falconer

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.

Scottish Poet

Alanis Morissette

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

Canadian Musician

Rumaan Alam

I didn't know, at 22, that everything that happens to you, the good stuff as well as the less-good stuff, accrues and becomes your life.

American Author

Shia LaBeouf

At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.

American Actor

Stacey Abrams

My life has always been about making certain I accrue the skills necessary to make my ambitions real.

American Politician

Noam Chomsky

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

American Activist

A. Bartlett Giamatti

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

American Educator

Accrue implies growth or increase over time, it doesn't happen instantly.

Time Matters

Accrue is usually used for beneficial growth, such as profits or interests.

Positive Outcome

Accrue is often used in financial and business settings.

Economic Context

Accrue often comes from actions you've taken, like working hard or investing.

Result of Efforts

Using accrue can imply a sense of achievement or personal benefit.

Personal Achievement

Benefits that accrue are often the result of a long-term process.

Long-Term Benefit

Accrue can refer to the gradual increase of knowledge or skills.

Knowledge Growth

Long-term experience, rather than short-term, causes skills or knowledge to accrue.

Experience Matters

Similar to interest on money, knowledge and skills take time to accrue.

Over Time

 half of which would accrue to the Third World. Again, the point is to say that we could actually pull two to three hundred million people out of poverty, very radically fast, in about two to five years. That would be the third best thing we could do. The second best thing would be to focus on malnutrition.

Bjorn Lomborg: Global...

 in addition to religious music and poetry. She accrued a massive library, and was visited by many prominent scholars. While serving as the convent’s treasurer and archivist, she also protected the livelihoods of her niece and sisters from men who tried to exploit them.

History's "worst" nun -...

 who agree most strongly with statements like, "I love helping others," which suggests the doctor you ought to trust is the one who came to med school with no desire to help anybody. And then in sales, too, the lowest revenue accrued in the most generous salespeople.

Are you a giver or a...

 within the first few months. When people aren't afraid of the fines they might accrue, they line up to access what we have to offer. So what are we telling people, then? We have these two disparate ideas. On the one hand, we're champions of democracy

A librarian's case...

 for example, didn't exist before there were highways. Think about it. Of course, today it's important to understand and acknowledge that those benefits accrued to some groups of people and not to others. It was not an equitable cultural momentum.

How an old loop of...

 but the global economy has also become incredibly divisive, with the vast share of returns to wealth now accruing to a fraction of the global one percent. And the economy has become incredibly degenerative,

A healthy economy should...

 finally to be revealed first accrue wealth power and prestige than losing second spend as much of your life in prison as you possibly can third make somebody else really really rich and finally

The surprising science...

 drug trade period when inmates accrue a drug debt and can't repay it just like out on the street there's going to be some violence that ensues the violence encompasses more than fists the women

Women Behind Bars PIPE...

 OK, there's something important to be learned from these people, and it is the secret of happiness. Here it is, finally to be revealed. accrue wealth, power and prestige, then lose it.

Why are we happy? Why...

 need to simultaneously recognize their privileges, the privileges that they have accrued as a result of their whiteness, and the only way in which they're going to be able to do that