Sentences with phrase «bad owner bad»

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April 24 (Reuters)- Burger King owner Restaurant Brands International Inc and its franchisees will spend C$ 700 million ($ 546 million) over four years to revamp coffee chain Tim Hortons, following a round of bad publicity over its management of the Canadian chain.

And while there are lots of high - income earners who will be affected, it has an unintended side effect that small - business owners (the restaurant owner, the bike shop repairman and the dry cleaning operator), who are considered the backbone of the economy, would likely have to pay higher taxes — and be worse off financially — as well.

Many small - business owners don't pay attention to financial statements or, worse yet, don't even do them on a regular basis.

Worse, more than 61 % small business owners feel that their money is unnecessarily being wasted on these campaigns and they are nothing but a waste of time.

Buffett's investments in newspaper companies including Graham Holdings (ghc)(former owner of the Washington Post) and Lee Enterprises (lee)(which publishes dozens of regional papers), are among his worst performers, with Graham's shares down 24 % and Lee's down 30 % over the past year.

However, a clean sock - drawer may be a bad sign for a business owner.

A few treasures, curios and keepsakes have become the stuff of legend, as one owner after another has fallen prey to bad luck — with sometimes - fatal results.

It has survived for a while, and continues to, despite poor service, shoddy presentation, bad attitudes from its owners and team or general chaos or disarray.

The Ink Preferred is an excellent rewards credit card — the bad news is that it's only available for small business owners.

This change would be bad for small business owners who employ low - skilled workers.

«For better or worse, it looks like many hybrid and EV owners are driven more by financial motives rather than a responsibility to the environment,» said Edmunds.com director of industry analysis Jessica Caldwell.

I see so many investors and small - business owners lose their business and sometimes everything, including their savings, to a deal gone bad and poor documentation.

For business owners, working hard to network with others in their respective industries, a bad first impression can be disastrous, especially if the person has an influence over others in the industry.

In its ideal form, business owners find ways to protect their personal assets while preparing for the worst for their business.

The pipeline's owners, Plains Midstream Canada, said that loose soil and a bad weld were to blame for the spill, but now that the company has applied to reopen the pipe, scientists are looking for more information.

They say the increase will put a damper on the nascent recovery, forcing business owners to put off hiring more employees, or in the worst case, force them to start laying off again to make up for lost revenues.

Higher rates are not necessarily a bad thing for small - business owners.

Canadians increasingly becoming entrepreneurs and small business owners By Matt Lundy October 03, 2012 Following the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression, an increasing number of Canadians have taken control of their earning potential and become their own bosses.

«[Euthanasia] is the worst thing that happens to a pet owner,» McClelland says.

It's easy for a small business owner or entrepreneur to worry about what could go wrong and prepare for the worst.

It's not just millennials who are bad at saving for retirement — small - business owners are also failing to build up a retirement fund.

When we first start out as a business owner, we all need to put up with bad clients.

Most small - business owners in retail trade (63 percent) say Amazon is, in general, bad for small businesses, and just 14 percent say it is good.

Plus, the best and the worst tax states for business owners.

In mid-September, Jeff Smith, a veterinarian in Middletown, California faced a business owner's worst nightmare.

Those numbers are stark compared with small - business owners overall, among whom 44 percent say Amazon is bad for small business and 31 percent say it is good.

«There's an emotional thing when you get a pretty ominous - looking letter from the IRS, [saying] you might have done bad things,» Tom Reese, owner of a hearing - aid retailer in Tennessee, told the Journal.

At our Entrepreneur Magazine Roundtable, investor Timothy Keating pinpoints the worst mistake business owners can make with investors: not showing how they'll make money.

As the end of the year approaches, and the bad economic news shows no signs of slowing, many business owners find themselves in a similar predicament.

It's way weirder than that, detailing Lindell's rise from a 47 - year - old crack addict with a problem so bad even his dealer cut him off to the owner of a sprawling pillow empire that pulled in $ 280 million last year.

This time, Stoppleman stopped by reddit for an AMA (Ask Me Anything) question - and - answer session where he fielded questions from owners who accuse the social rating site of bad business practices.

And the higher inflation goes, the worse an owner will do.

Ask any business owner how the economy is doing and you'll probably hear, «not bad.»

Worse, they said he wouldn't get a good price for a business still so heavily dependent on its owners.

While small business owners might be tempted to view this as bad news, higher rates can actually be a good thing for entrepreneurs searching for capital.

They created bad blood, and as soon as their crowds began to shrink, the club owners couldn't wait to cut their pay and be less cooperative in many other ways.

Living in probably the only country in the world where guns remain less regulated than startups, many founders and small - to - medium - size (SMB) business owners probably anxiously awaited news of December's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, expecting the worst.

The worst part is that the business owner would have no idea this even took place.

The bad economy is only underscoring what savvy business owners already know about IT, says Michael Kraner, CEO of Primary Support, a 10 - person IT consulting firm in New York City.

There seems to be an unwritten code of entrepreneurship that suggests every available penny be invested in building and expanding your business, so the emergency savings rate for business owners could be even worse than that of the general public.

As good (or bad) as a phone might be, existing smartphone owners aren't going to switch over if they have to give up apps they've become accustomed to.

That's bad news for family members who have to deal with the entrepreneur in the family spoiling the festive cheer with constant tapping on a smartphone, and it's bad news for business owners themselves.

Small - business owners remain much worse off financially than they were before the Great Recession because they suffered a particularly deep drop in income during the economic downturn.

In the midst of possibly the worst economic downturn of our time, it's safe to say that small business owners across the country are looking for answers on how tough times are affecting the value of their businesses.

While everyone hopes to relax and rejoice as the year comes to a close, all too often business owners find this time of year to be a manic flurry of seasonal promotions, forward planning, and insane hours (or, for some, a far worse pause in getting paid as clients turn their attention elsewhere).

Just when you thought things couldn't get worse for Sears Holdings (shld), the owner of Sears and Kmart announced its deepest quarterly sales plunge in recent times and said it could sell off 140 stores.

When business owners borrow start - up capital from family members or friends, it's best, most CEOs agree, to prepare for the worst — before it happens.

The worst mistake a new franchise owner can make is ignoring the proven procedures outlined by the franchise.

While he is not technically a business owner, Robert's bad instincts and dusty thinking can serve as lessons to us even a century later.

His worst press in recent years was over his refusal to intervene in the sale of the Montreal Expos, of which he was a part owner.