Sentences with phrase «chance they would lose»

Law firm Clifford Chance has lost the two partners who established the forerunner to its Perth office, after Michael Lishman accepted an offer to join corporate advisory firm Gresham Partners.

When he made his first fortune after eBay bought PayPal, which he cofounded with Trump supporter Peter Thiel, Musk sank his entire net worth into a vision that was fraught with so much risk that he initially discouraged investors from signing up because the chance they would lose everything was so high.

The assets they received were so minimal that it would have been better forgoing them to buy time to see how the situation played out, even if it meant there was a chance they'd lost Noel for nothing.

In the recent past, you could buy a completely safe investment like government treasuries or a five - year certificate of deposit at your local bank that would payout (yield) 5 or 6 % annually with nearly zero chance you would lose your original investment.

«There is a very real chance they would lose money by releasing those games in North America,»?

Granted, there's a good chance we would lose some of the more entertaining business ventures and cases.

Not exact matches

Also known by his nickname Mattress Mack, McIngvale has already welcomed hundreds of refugees from the storm, shrugging off the tens of thousands of dollars of lost revenue as an acceptable price for the chance to help his community.

If you don't have a tangible plan, you're actually losing business — or you're increasing the chance of losing business to competitors.

If your business has a better «onboarding» process than your competitors, I guarantee you will have far greater word of mouth (and word of mouse) and just as importantly, you will build much stronger relationships with these new customers that will reduce the chances of losing them way too soon in the business relationship.

There are probably plenty of companies losing money in China, too, says Nordlicht, but there's no chance they'd attempt a U.S. IPO.

But even if you've tried — and failed — to lose weight in the past, there's always a chance to meet your goals and drop the weight for good.

If I have a chance to make $ 100 but don't, that sucks, but if I have $ 100 and lose it, that really sucks.

Considering the possibility of needing to do that again, buying a ticket is almost certainly a losing proposition if there's a good chance we'd need to split the pot.

The junior people in the organization wouldn't bother submitting concepts, and there's a good chance the organization would lose out on the best ideas a result.

As he notes, while investors who have risked their funds in a company «lose real dollars» when a stock declines, option holders lose nothing and even get a second chance to buy the stock at a better price.

And, of course, if you're on an «all or nothing» crowdfunding website, you have a bigger chance of not reaching your goal and therefore losing all the funding you do attract.

If the case went to court, the veterans stood a real chance of losing, because science at that time had not found a strong correlation between Agent Orange and the illnesses afflicting the veterans.

We could be losing the game at halftime, but if we held steady on the course and heeded Coach Dave's words, we were confident we had a damn good chance of winning.

Kupchan said the Kremlin may once have held influence over Assad, when there was a chance he could lose the ongoing civil war.

If a client can not meet your dollar amount right now and the project has the potential to be profitable down the road, it's smarter to take a chance and lose a few dollars up front.

«If Cameron, Clegg and Miliband really cared, they would have been up here campaigning to save the U.K. weeks ago and not just at the last minute when the polls suggest there's a chance they could lose,» said Alistair Davidson, a computer programmer from Dunblane in central Scotland.

A crucial habit that Jones had abandoned, Robbins discovered, was asking himself if he had a chance at a 5:1 return for every dollar invested (meaning he could be wrong four times and still not lose money).

On the off chance that the point had been lost on anyone in the audience there was a, «Canada Open For Business,» sign under the podium.

If you take a chance with 2 % or 5 % that can double than there is nothing wrong but you have to be willing to lose it and it takes nerves of steal to not throw more money into it when you get some hail maries.

There is no better time to take a chance than when you're young, bold, and have very little to lose.

We know that regulators in Massachusetts and Las Vegas were taking the allegations of sexual misconduct seriously, and even a small chance of losing a gaming license in either location may have been enough incentive for Steve Wynn to leave.

If you follow this rule you will have a chance of being successful over the course of time, if you don't follow this rule you will be sure to lose your money quickly.

You have a very real chance of losing your entire investment.

Chances are that you have heard about the Paris terrorist attacks, due to which, over 130 people lost their lives, and hundreds more were injured.

And given that Mr. Hogan has had financial ups and downs, the cost of the hundreds of motions his lawyers made is significant, and the chances the award is significantly reduced based on previous cases he lost making the same claims in federal court, it's hard to completely understand the motivations at play.

The more you gamble, the more likely you are to lose more money because gambling gives you no chance to stop loses, and you don't have the chance to revive your money once the odds are against you.

By being cautious, selecting the best broker for your needs, and having a strong trading strategy and risk management system, you can minimize your chances of losing money.

The stock market is an unpredictable place, there is always a chance that you will lose everything you have if you are not careful.

If the business collapses, you could lose everything and since you won't be involved in the day - to - day operations, you might not have the chance (or the authority) to stop a bad situation from getting worse.

If a company doesn't make the changes that it needs to lower their debt - to - income ratio, there is a good chance that they will lose the few investors or shareholders that they already have.

It's meant to give homeowners who are current on their mortgages, and who have lost home equity, a chance to refinance at today's low mortgage rates.

Trevena said she wants to be sure that every ferry user has a chance to tell the B.C. Liberal government what will be lost if these cuts, scheduled for implementation in April, go ahead.

If you are unable to think about stocks or the index funds that hold those stocks rationally — and understand that just because the market declined, say, 25 percent, does not mean you have lost 25 percent of your underlying earnings power, you stand virtually no chance of enjoying this sort of outcome.

If so, there's a decent chance that you lost faith in the traditional investment process some time ago and have struggled to find an alternative.

I've lost patience and done it before; chances are it will happen again, even though I would prefer I not do that.

Austin has zero interest in ever looking outside the box and lost every chance at respect he'd ever get from me when he stated last night that he has fantasies about blowing up / burning down liquor stores - that just sounds a little too dangerous to me.

the Greek lyric poet Tyrtaeus wrote, «The man who risks his life in battle has the best chance of saving it; the one who flees to save it is the most likely to lose it.»

Arguments that ground our dignity as humans in our capacities exclude those human beings who have either never possessed such rationality, or who have lost it (for example, through degenerative conditions) and have no chance to acquire it again.

The saying is usually thought to be telling those who had rejected Jesus himself when he was alive that afterwards they are not irretrievably lost but have a new chance through the preaching of the disciples equipped with the Spirit after his death.

Meike i believe she sensed in you the love of the Lord she had never experienced it before when you do you do nt want to lose that sense of being loved for who you are.Its so comforting to know i am pleased she got the chance to experience his love life can be so short we do nt know what tomorrow will bring and i do believe you will see her again..

If you join this final satanic rebellion, you will lose any chance you had at salvation, and I don't care how «saved» or «born again» you think you are.

Can we lose that salvation i believe so if we totally turn away from him by rejecting the conviction of the holy spirit in our lives.I say that because as a new christian i accepted Christ into my life and the holy spirit was convicting me to surrender my heart to him as Lord and i was resisting him i would not surrender to him fully and so he gave me a choice to either accept him or reject him.I believe he gives everyone the chance to make that commitment as Lord of there life.When we make that deeper commitment and follow him he will continue to perfect us through his holy spirit so that we conform to his image.By the way i knew that if i rejected him at that point that was it he would never bother me again i would have been eternally lost the thought was terrifying at the time.There was definitely a spiritual battle being fought over me i was very aware i needed to decide which side i was on.Thankfully i chose the winning one.brentnz

Unfair to him to have to make a choice of forfeit and lose his chances at becoming a champion, and unfair to her that there is no girl's wrestling opportunities.

Let's not forget Maryland (Catholics), Pennsylvania (Quakers), and I can't help but add Georgia — a southern state and the only one at the time of its founding to prohibit slavery (Oglethorpe who had made his fortune in the slave trade felt bad about how he had made his money and paid off the debts of folks imprisoned for their debts and procured them land and gave them a new chance), New York (originally a Dutch colony procured after the Dutch lost the Dutch - Anglo War, the Carolinas, and so on.

It aroused such opposition that various attempts were made to have the book suppressed and Strauss lost all chance of a career in either the church or university.