Sentences with phrase «at making money for»

The fact is that wind turbines are much better at making money for speculative private interests and providing an ecological figleaf for the privatization and deregulation of electrical generation than they are at generating electricity.

Her best chance at making the money for the...

We don't spend big, we don't compete, we have a manager that's not serious, and cares only at making money for the board.

professor of economics, good at making money for the owners not much good at winning the trophies that matters

Not exact matches

I was getting ready to go into rehearsals for A Raisin in the Sun and, if you can believe it, I was making more money in rehearsals than the average basketball player at the time.

Helena Morrissey of the London - based Legal and General is making a big push for sustainable investing, saying at a conference Monday that individual investors are becoming increasingly wary of putting their money in the market as they fear companies will act in ways that run counter to the investor's own moral beliefs.

One of the things that could help Medium differentiate itself, at least in the short term, is support for paywalls and other ways for publishers to make money.

Now let's be realistic — not everyone is going to be able to invest $ 1,000 and make $ 2,000 profit month after month, but the key is to at least explore PPC advertising as an option and be willing to invest some money to try it for a couple months.

Sales came in faster than they could ship out the tea, which prompted the couple to drive around Hamilton asking people at bus stops if they wanted to make some extra money bagging tea leaves for a few hours.

On stage at the conference, Paltrow Neumann said the first thing the couple did when they made some money for themselves was pay back the original investors of their previous failed endeavors.

At the stock's current levels, it would need to crash more than 50 % in order for the hedge fund investor to make any money on the bet.

With gold trading at $ 1,650 an ounce, it's easier for investors to see who is making money and who's not.

If the oil traders are right, they can make money by buying oil at today's spot price, selling a futures contract for delivery at the higher price expected in the future and storing the oil in the meantime.

It also became apparent that profitsharing didn't compensate for a deal structure that benefited the private investors at the government's expense — a lot of SBICs made big profits even as the SBA lost money on its investment.

Jon Bon Jovi on how he feels Steve Jobs and iTunes have altered the music - buying experience... for the worse The Sunday Times, March 2011 Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album, and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it.

But at the end of the day, many of them work for firms that have a vested interest in making as much money as possible for themselves and their shareholders — not for you, their client.

Authorities have described Baratov as an «international hacker - for - hire» who hacked more than 11,000 webmail accounts from around 2010 until his March 2017 arrest and used the money he made — roughly $ 1.1 million at about $ 100 per hacking victim — to finance a $ 650,000 home and fancy cars, including a Lamborghini and Aston Martin.

So you're not profitable in the model for at least three to five years, and then what you would hope is that you can start doing licenses for shoes, bags, things like that and make your money.

MAKING THE SALE: Contrary to popular belief, small nonprofits do spend money — it's just tough for them to spend a lot at a time.

the beach club at Encore has made a lot of money for Steve Wynn.?

«Almost every failed entrepreneur... overestimates their ability to generate revenue, or underestimates what it'll take» to start making money, says Stewart Thornhill, executive director at the Pierre L. Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship at the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Alphabet, the umbrella company for Google and YouTube, has never revealed how much money it makes from YouTube — which seems crazy, as it's probably at least as valuable as Netflix.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

Halloween is just around the corner, and while some people prefer to save money and make their costumes at home, the run up to October 31 is now one of the biggest for UK retail.

For instance, on his blog Baseline Scenario, University of Connecticut law professor James Kwak makes many of the same points as Quittner — the Zuckerberg - Chan donation isn't really a donation at all but a newly formed LLC that will have significant tax benefits for the couple, who will retain almost complete control over their monFor instance, on his blog Baseline Scenario, University of Connecticut law professor James Kwak makes many of the same points as Quittner — the Zuckerberg - Chan donation isn't really a donation at all but a newly formed LLC that will have significant tax benefits for the couple, who will retain almost complete control over their monfor the couple, who will retain almost complete control over their money.

In order for companies like UniQure to make money on these novel drugs, they'll have to be priced at an exorbitant premium, which few if any patients could ever pay.

«At the time, the conventional wisdom held that golf was dead, but I thought we were seeing some green shoots and there might be a few smart ways for you to make money with it,» the «Mad Money» host money with it,» the «Mad Money» host Money» host said.

Mobileye N.V., whose collision - avoidance technology has been adopted in cars made by the likes of BMW AG and General Motors Co., said on Sunday it had raised money from five investors that valued its equity at $ 1.5 billion, highlighting the market potential for driver - assistance systems.

A couple of years later, Congress made exceptions to the loss rules, for example, allowing taxpayers to report losses from real estate investments even when their own money wasn't at risk.

Going beyond the obvious of helping them save money, a loyalty program makes them feel as though they are part of a community, while rewarding them at the same time for doing business with you.

«Being an operator, I want a dealer who creates a great experience for the customer, because the more fun you have at the table the longer you play and the more money I make,» says Zimmer.

When they look at the United States, they say, «OK, returns have been poor for the last 10 years but before that we made good money.

Investors in Amazon's 1997 IPO (three years after its founding at a market capitalization of $ 625 million, in current dollars) made 565 times their money, compared to 20 - times for investors in Google's 2004 IPO (six years after founding at a valuation of $ 29 billion) and 3.7 - times for investors in Facebook's $ 110 billion IPO five years ago.

So, if Ning and Slide raised $ 50M at a $ 500M valuation and were to sell for $ 300M they would still make a lot of money despite the fact that it might not look like a win.

At 1871, we say that you can't be in this for the money - it's just too hard and it's really not about making money or even about making a living.

Wiseman said all of CPPIB's investment teams made material contributions last year, producing CPPIB's largest level of annual investment income since inception, but noted the Canada Pension Plan isn't expected to need to draw money from the fund until at least 2023 and, even then, at a relatively small amount for several years.

After a slow and grudging response to the initial revelations, Cameron finally published six years of personal tax returns at the weekend, and for good measure Monday promised new legislation to make companies criminally liable if they fail to stop their employees laundering money on clients» behalf.

In all of the above cases the entrepreneur who is susceptible to the confirmation bias will look for information and analyze it in a way that will yield: 1) fewer competitors rather than more, because it increases the viability of the start - up, 2) underestimation of the capabilities of the competition because stronger competitors will make life harder for the entrepreneur, 3) view of the company's product as fully addressing the needs of the customer because otherwise the start - up is at a weaker position in the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easier.

When you net it all out at the end of the day, between 35 % -40 % of all the money [drivers] make goes to pay for all those services.

«If you look at my track record at Sybase, I think we made money for some 60 quarters in a row, even when the dotcom bubble blew up we were profitable.

Here's how Conaway and team make the most of their time and money at SaaStr Annual 2017 — though these are good tips for any other marketing conference in general:

It's done to create «liquidity» at certain prices for big offers, and then make money from smaller offers, CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton said.

He also had a talent for making money — «commerciality» was the word he coined — and in as Darwinian and profit - driven an environment as Wall Street, and at Goldman in particular, this quality did not go unnoticed at the top levels of the firm.

«The next thing you know, you have this company built around all of those decisions and you're successful and you have real money, but then it takes a huge revolution to make change,» says Poon Tip, who was at a loss for how to manage the company that had grown beyond his original vision.

In fact, whereas Apple has long prided itself for premium prices — with the operating margins to show for it: 31 % in 2011, vs. 2 % for Amazon — Amazon sells at the bare minimum needed to break even, on the assumption it will make money elsewhere.

Whether you want to start your financial independence journey, get your dream job, or simply make more money, these are actually good ideas for anyone at any age.

At the time, Musk said that once Tesla vehicles were fully autonomous, the company would set up a program for owners to make money off their car by letting other people use it.

However, on the days when I really can't compromise, I'm successful at saving money until I pass the Starbucks near work, and then 20 minutes and $ 7 later I'm walking out with an iced coffee that I feel like I could have made at home for pennies on the dollar.

But of course, at the end, that film could go on and make money for the next 20 years [through streaming] and we'll never see a statement.

So it's hard to claim that Trump is actually making money on running for president, at least not yet.