Traditional economics predicts that people should use money to acquire things that might make them happy.
Finally, lots of people offer the notion that parenthood will make them happy.
The real point, of course, is to satisfy the customers and make them happy to pay for the cost of programming.
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They work hard to afford things they think will make them happy, only to discover the fruits of their labour sour quickly.
Even though people are strapped for cash, that persistent feeling of wanting to provide for the children and make them happy still prevails.
Translation: Engage Twitterers on their terms, make them happy using supplemental promotions but don't turn it into a mirror of your other promotional channels.
He reminds readers that getting rich won't necessarily make them happy.
And, 65 percent say a better boss would make them happy.
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The Internet and all things digital have amplified what consumers are saying and doing about the things that make them happy and the things that make them mad.
If people do not know what will make them happy (just as if they do not realise that smoking kills or calories fatten) governments could helpfully tell them what might.
Human beings spend a lot of time trying to figure out what will make them happy, but not nearly enough time trying to hang on to the happiness they already have.
People live for the moments that touch their hearts and make them truly happy, ephemeral and fleeting though those moments may be.
And either way, other tech sites, including this one, would be more than happy to make them job offers.
Politics is always a trade off between the long game and the short game, of course, and even worse, they might think, is that it's likely that in a few years' time - with an election around the corner - many of those indicators may still not make happy reading for them.
How does it make prisoners happy when you cut them off from the world?
Customers will reward you with their wallet and their loyalty if you make them feel appreciated, confident, and happy.
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And make a film of them whether they are happy or not.
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Ultimately, he says, people can't rely on short-lived salaries, promotions and raises to keep them happy but rather the contributions they make in the long run.
"For seven months I have fulfilled my customers' orders and made them happy, " he says, adding that he's trying to make a fresh start.
The challenge for Groupon, and its competitors, is to keep the businesses happy through the amount of profit it can make from the people it brings in, but also to keep the users of the offers happy by giving them a genuinely discounted product.
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