Sentences with phrase «cutthroat business»

Get this, e-mails such as this might not be as much of a career - destroying move as some might think — especially if you're a lawyer or someone admired for cutthroat business behavior.

But there's definitely cutthroat business everywhere, including Kenya.

«You're talking about one of the most cutthroat businesses in the world,» he says, pointing out that dessert is the last thing a diner eats before leaving the tip.

There's the Do - It - Yourself home renovation mysteries I write for Berkley Prime Crime, under the pseudonym Jennie Bentley, and the brand new A Cutthroat Business, first in the Savannah Martin Southern real estate series, written as myself.

What most people don't realize about the Amazon - Hachette dispute is that there are two issues involved: (1) Traditional publishing has problems with the way publishers treat authors (those profit margins come out of advances and royalties), and (2) Amazon's cutthroat business practices.

«Buying trees is a surprisingly cutthroat business.

And something else no one ever told me is how cutthroat the business is... it's not for everyone, but if you have another income coming in, or family to help you out, or you Dad's a builder, or your Mom has been in the business for 20 + years (some kind of unfair advantage) then go for it.

«The Agents take an unprecedented and exclusive look at this lucrative but cutthroat business as our cast of Realtors juggle high - end and low - end deals while coping with crashing markets, anxious clients and stressed - out buyers — all while trying to get home to cook a real meal for the kids, keep a relationship together (or find one) and carve out an hour for themselves so they don't crack up.»

The cutthroat business world also needs to make changes that allow employees to get more sleep, according to Huffington.

Why would SolarCity, which now buys its panels from multiple vendors, want to get into a cutthroat business dominated by the Chinese, where profits were negligible at best?

Trump defends his history of payment disputes as simply the expected cost of being a tough negotiator in a cutthroat business.

The Yahoo purchase carries risks for Verizon, which is well known for its wireless phone and internet services but has little experience in the cutthroat business of digital content.

For one, NBA reporting — especially during July's free agent silly season — is a cutthroat business, and hardworking reporters like Coro (one of the best local guys in the business) deserve credit when credit is due.

As an international, white label dating solution provider that has a massive global database of users and helps people instantly set up their dating site, make money online, generate revenue and traffic, we at Dating Factory felt obligated switching to a system that will improve the performance of clientele and provide everyone who partners with a competitive edge in this cutthroat business.

The impression we get is that this is a cutthroat business, no matter which side of an issue one is on.

Taking up most of the story is Jake, a paradoxically naïve idealist with a cutthroat business sense, who has his mind and heart set on finding investors for a pet project: a renewable energy source based on lasers.

It is a cutthroat business.

This month, she hits bookstore shelves for the first time under her own name with A Cutthroat Business, a book set in Music City that stars Southern Belle realtor Savannah Martin.

A Cutthroat Business went on sale June 29.

Savannah Martin, on the other hand, the main character in A Cutthroat Business, is a gentle - bred Southern Belle from a small town in Middle Tennessee.

She gets a real estate license — in spite of her mother's assertion that real estate is a cutthroat business, unfit for a lady — and starts to develop the kind of life she, Savannah, wants.

«The world of high finance provides a thrilling setting for Hemphill's fine debut about survival in a cutthroat business where millions of dollars are at stake and the wrong comment can cost you your job.»

«Bird hunting» has become a pastime and a side hustle for teens and young professionals, but for some it's a cutthroat business.

Not only that, it's a cutthroat business.

Publishing is a ruthless, cutthroat business, and anyone painting it as something else is selling you a bill of goods.

Everyone has warned new - minted realtor Savannah Martin that real estate is a cutthroat business.

Cow milking is a cutthroat business.

This unfortunate possibility could be driven by developers» and publishers» need to stay competitive in a cutthroat business.

Combat encounters are thick with tension because the soldiers are rendered as ancient heroes and living gods; the cutthroat business of managing a resource - starved caravan turns the player into a digital Snorri Sturluson, writing the epic of a brave army fighting back the forces of evil.

Producing movie soundtracks is a cutthroat business, and engineers are subject to increasing time crunches.

Manufacturing consumer electronics is a cutthroat business.

However, there may be some newcomers to the business who are still in week one, who wouldn't have found out until next week sometime what a «cutthroat business this can be — were it not for having the benefit of perhaps reading the subject article.

Real estate marketing is a cutthroat business.