Sentences with phrase «good at money»

«We want to know that people pay their bills on time and are financially disciplined and good at money management,» says Staci Titsworth, regional vice president sales manager with PNC Mortgage in Pittsburgh, Pa..

Protection — A properly constructed trust can help protect your estate from beneficiaries who may not be good at money management and / or from your heir's creditors.

Not the best at money?

The other three or four don't understand, despite my best efforts — some of it seems to be personality - driven, but I have seen one or two of them change and get better at money management.

• We're as financially literate as New Zealand, but financially dumber than Australia, which suggests that beer makes you better at money.

Not exact matches

«Restaurant Brands is really good at pruning items from their menu that don't make money and adding new innovative items with higher margins,» says Winder.

Instead of haphazardly throwing money at a mutual fund or stock — a choice you may regret later — consider keeping your money in cash while you figure out where it's best invested.

The only good news about the big guys is that there is another group of them (think AOL and Yahoo for starters) who are so lost, so behind the curve, and so desperate to deliver something for their shareholders that they are constantly running around and throwing money at the shiniest new things in a panic.

The special issue approaches investing from both domestic and international vantage points, providing a well - rounded look at where you might put your money in the coming year.

Asking for more money is uncomfortable at best and often downright nauseating.

The new regime at the money - losing retailer, backed by a hedge fund, may have had more in mind than just changing the optics around a brand best known for its sexually provocative — some would say sleazy — advertising.

Neither make you money — at best, a 30 - day GIC will pay between 0.1 % and 0.9 % interest — but at least you won't lose any while you research better ways to allocate it.

You can also think of this model similar to how Dan Sullivan of the Strategic Coach talks about how you need to spend most of your time doing the things you are best at and enjoy doing that you can also make money doing.

Taking the advice and working closely with Gekko, Fox soon finds himself swept into a world of «yuppies», shady business deals, the «good life», fast money, and fast women; something which is at odds with his family including his estranged father and the blue - collared way Fox was brought up.

With a tiny handful of teams scrambling to sign the world's best players, there is a growing gap between the few, like Barça, with enough money to compete at the highest level, and the masses below them.

But for a business owner, your private insurance or an SBA loan will be your best chance at receiving money fast.

There's a great deal to be gleaned from people who have actually done what you're hoping to do rather than from newbies who are inventing their «careers» as they roll along, hoping at the same time to get their businesses built and scaled before they run out of time, cheap money or good ideas.

Of course, you need to be good at this to earn any money but it you are, you can sell photos on ShutterStock or iStockPhoto (along with many others) to generate a passive income from something you might be very passionate about.

As well, the poll showed that those with children ages four to 10 were much more likely to borrow money from friends and family (39 per cent) than couples with older children (28 per cent), likely showing they feel they need a larger cash flow or savings to feel comfortable at that stage in life.

• Dianrong, a China - based online platform where members can borrow and lend money among themselves at better interest rates, raised $ 70 million in Series D funding.

It is unseemly at best to resist so adamantly the pleas of members of another historically - disadvantaged group that he stop making money from a brand that adds insult to injury.

«I'm not going to be dismissive of the risks, but I think markets have priced them in and if anything as we look at the fundamentals of stock markets around the world, the fundamentals of European equities right now are I think significantly better than they are for the United States,» said the managing partner of Triogem Asset Management and global investing expert on CNBC's «Fast Money.»

If working 10:30 - 6:30 will make your star designer or best analyst markedly better at his or her job, forcing him or her show up at nine is essentially throwing productivity (and therefore money) out the window.

«He obviously still wants to make money and is good at it, but he wants to improve the system.

He responded: «Well, I just had one come in, a younger person, had gone to Harvard, super bright, has started a financial company in one area and he's very successful, and people were offering him massive amounts of money to go into different types of businesses because he was successful at one.»

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In other words, it shows how good the company is at wringing more money out of its existing, highly caffeinated customer base.

The money's typically better than what you'd get at small firms too.

Weiss used the money to invest in technology and data analytics that would study Instagram and other social platforms, measuring not just how well certain Glossier posts performed but how well each product performed: Were people sharing them as product shots, or selfies, or not at all?

Yes, Square, priced at $ 9 a share in November, well below the $ 15.46 a share at which it last raised money from private investors, then traded as high as $ 13.50 before the close of 2015.

It also causes them to have more «skin in the game,» if you will, where they could become even more aligned in helping grow the business because their money is now at risk as well as yours.

As a founder trying to raise capital, the more money you can bring in at the lowest possible dilution leaves you in the best possible position for both burn rate and high percentage ownership in your enterprise.

At least some households would use the funds to pay down debt, meaning the money would flow to the banking sector anyway, but with one critical difference: household debt would actually decline, leaving household balance sheets in better shape and owing less interest every month.

«It's always better to get to the end of your experience and have extra money for your re-entry or your nest egg,» she says, adding that the exact amount of money you need varies depending on whether you plan to travel or stay planted in one location, what activities you plan to do and whether you have a job waiting for you at the other end.

It all left fans ready to throw their money at the star — the album Lemonade went platinum in two months, and the tour sold out — and proved no one uses suspense to sell as well as Beyoncé.

«At this point, it was a better way to spend my money than putting it into rent,» she says.

After a summer internship at CNBC writing about personal finance, I left for a semester abroad armed with plenty of information to better manage my money.

So, our dentist here ought to spend double the money, putting in two ads; one with a «smiler whitener» hook to attract the (yellow teeth - ed, at least in their own mind) new clients, and a separate, ad for those with a toothless grin, who want to have teeth so they can look good in pictures at the upcoming wedding of the grandkid whose finally settling down... well some of the toothless anyway.

«You have to take a broader view and look at the best use of your money that will put you in a better situation in retirement,» says Angela DiCastri, director of Retirement Markets at Northwestern Mutual.

But anecdotal evidence, at least, suggests that directors often doubt the reliability and value of comp consultants, even after having paid good money for their advice.

Even MORE money is at stake than what Kobe or even the best rock bands in the world can make by being at the top of their game.

Professor Harry Kraemer at the Kellogg School of Management, author of Becoming the Best: Build a World - Class Organization Through Values - Based Leadership, tells me that being a social entrepreneur has very little to do with how much money you have or the number of people who report to you.

When you convert your 401 (k) to a Roth IRA (or an IRA to a Roth IRA) you'll have the option of withholding taxes on the conversion, but it's better if you convert the full amount (no withholding) and then set aside money from savings for taxes at tax time.

If the company can demonstrate that it can figure out a way to make money at least as well as its peers — never mind the fact that its customers are almost entirely within the age 18 - 34 demographic that advertisers have traditionally most coveted — $ 19 billion isn't a goal; it's practically a done deal.

That is 300 % and 400 % better than the average money market fund at 0.01 %.

Which means it has a strong financial incentive to reduce long - term health costs (which it will likely inherit as well), even at the cost of laying out more money for screening and prevention up front.

The only problem is this: The only thing they're good at is getting people to cough up their money.

By the time she delivered a commencement speech at Smith College in 2013, she was preaching the gospel of a good night's sleep and asking graduates to measure their lives by a «third metric» — changing the world for the better — in addition to those timeless standards, money and power.

«I'm sure that you, Joe, want the best value for your money at XYZ Corp. and, Joe, that's important to me, too.»

At the end of the day, the best pitches are the ones that convince me that I will get my money back.