According to Stone, the couple invested $ 100,000 in Amazon in 1995 — even though Jeff Bezos had warned them there was a 70 % chance they'd never see that money again.
You see, if no one buys the albums of the bands that you enjoy, then that band will be dropped from their label, and there's a good
chance you would never hear from them again.
I really thought
the chance would never come again.
I sometimes have problems with corn starch based fillings, they often are not stiff enough and I didn't want to take
a chance having never used that recipe before.
In fact there was a good
chance you had never heard the word before!
The film is an unapologetically hard - R, with Lawrence taking
chances she has never before entertained.
He Was A Quiet Man contains some fairly well - known actors; Christian Slater, Elisha Cuthbert and William H. Macy, however, there is a good
chance you have never heard of it.
The link between literacy and life
chances has never been investigated in more depth than it is now and it's for that reason that literacy development in schools is a specific focus for the UK Government.
I felt terrible for betraying her trust and knew there was a chance she'd never speak to me again, but in the end, I decided I could live with sacrificing our friendship to potentially save her life.
Clifford
Chance has never been afraid to innovate.
There's a good chance you've never seen a baby pigeon because pigeons roost up high in protected areas and the babies don't leave the nest until they are nearly the same size as adults.
Not exact matches
Thanks to the «economics of flexibility» they can also bid for contracts they
would never have had the
chance to go for previously, when so much more was done «in house.»
I
have worked with several CEOs who
have had great success in their careers where they got the
chance to sell their businesses for enough money where they
would never have to work again.
Chances are you
've never really looked at the nutrition facts for favorites like the Egg McMuffin, a Big Mac, and Chicken McNuggets.
I am not famous nor rich, but the in - air staff treated me, and seemingly every passenger, like we were., Though I felt like I and my well - worn Diane Von Furstenberg silk travel pants paired with J. Crew turtleneck pretty much negated any
chance I
had at fitting in with the business class crowd, the flight attendants
never made me feel like I didn't belong.
Growing up in Shanghai, Dong «
never had a
chance to engage in sports.»
«If you look at the hepatitis space, the cancer space, diabetes — there are huge advances in recent years... I
've never been as optimistic about our
chance to make a difference.»
I
never even see that $ 200, meaning I don't
have the
chance to spend it.
They're more in tune with getting called on by new companies they
've never heard of and are more willing to give them a
chance.»
It's possible that some tobacco behemoths
would buy up existing cannabis companies, but Clayton notes that «the
chance of a takeover is
never really a good reason to buy a stock.»
The truth of the matter is that Google
has never in its history promised websites anything more than a fair
chance at a good rank using proper SEO.
The upshot: A very real
chance that the business is undercapitalized from the outset and
never has the resources necessary to get a serious start.
It shows why, if given the
chance, we
'd never build the Internet we
have now: As a centralized advertising economy that strips wealth from creators, and feeds personal data to giant corporations.
The Upshot blog at the New York Times, which
has a predictive model of its own,
never gave Trump more than a 40 %
chance of winning the election.
You can give many people a
chance that they
would never have gotten otherwise.
But if you
never get in the market, you'll
never have a
chance.»
I believe that the best leaders
never waste a good crisis because it affords you the
chance to make the kind of large wholesale changes you organization needs that you
've also been putting off for too long.
The boy, he learned,
had never been to school — like the 67 million kids around the world without a
chance at an education.
Perhaps your true passion in life is something you
've simply
never given yourself a
chance to explore.
If you
never start, you'll
never have a
chance to fail.
Most of the public, who
have never had the
chance to invest in a private company, may expect a financial return faster than is the norm in the startup world.
But you'll
never have a
chance to succeed, either.
«I am
never going to invest in you if you
have a part - time job somewhere else; not a
chance in hell.
Furthermore, banks rarely sold their mortgages to other institutions and
never relied heavily on third - party mortgage brokers, thus reducing the
chance they
'd end up with income-less, asset-less debtors and keeping default rates low.
I
never quit trying; I
never felt that I didn't
have a
chance to win.
And anonymity gives people a
chance to share things about themselves that they
would never share with anybody else, in a constructive fashion.
«I
would walk into class, deliver the same lecture, tell the same stories, again and again, and
never have a
chance to engage with my students in a meaningful way,» she says.
There's a
chance your antibodies react to one particular protein in a new partner's semen that you
've never been exposed to in the past, which is why you're just feeling the symptoms now.
And while it's true that there's really nothing you can do to ensure that you
never have to deal with everyday psychopaths, apparently there is at least one way you could decrease your
chances — you could avoid going into certain professions.
If you live in a big city,
chances are you
've never played tourist there before.
But his venture into the cut - throat world of Canadian musical theatre
never had a
chance.
I
had the
chance to speak with Taylor Freeman, CEO of Upload, Inc., about some of the important ways businesses can use virtual reality to communicate, envision and expedite their projects and operations in ways that we
have never seen before.
LOS ANGELES — Insisting that the legal, centuries - long practice of slavery in America could
never have limited his personal or artistic ambitions, Kanye West stated Wednesday that if he
had been born into captivity, he
would have simply escaped the plantation on his motorcycle «the first
chance [he] got.»
I
have 22 children in my 4th grade classroom that haven't seen our state capitol and many will
never have the
chance to visit our Nation's Capitol.
The EPA
has criticized the Obama administration for
never holding a hearing in West Virginia, denying coal workers a
chance to comment in person.
Chances are that most investors
have never paid any attention to this company, as boiler production does not suppose any exciting news.
Understanding Coke or Wrigley is knowable... but we
have never bought a business or not bought a business because of any macro feeling of any kind... We don't want to pass up the
chance to do something intelligent because of some prediction about something that we're no good at anyway.»
However, both of those cards will be out of reach to most students, especially those who
never had a credit card or the
chance to build up credit history before.
Photo: goo.gl / JACPcv Healthy oceans keep humans alive — destroy them and we destroy ourselves «Even if you
never have the
chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume.
I
never would have had that
chance had it not been for the family connection.