Sentences with phrase «got rich off»

Another pair of investors who got rich off of Facebook first and then expanded their wealth with cryptocurrency, the Winklevoss twins — Cameron and Tyler — have been two of the most vocal supporters of Bitcoin and have done everything in their power to capitalize off the cryptocurrency.

Someone got rich off that coal, but it wasn't the people of McDowell County, or the people of West Virginia.

One of the things that bugs me deeply is the team that had the idea for DOTA aren't the ones that got rich off of it.

So this guy posits that Buffett got rich off of «Guaranteed Income Certificates.»

The same man who got rich off of petroleum was doing just fine with whale oil.

Although some authors did make a career out of writing pulp, I don't think anyone ever got rich off of exclusively writing pulp fiction (there were no Amanda Hockings of pulp).

(Not that there aren't ideas to be found here — that casino is loaded with people who got rich off the arms trade, and Finn is taken aback to discover that the same merchants who sell TIE fighters to the First Order are also profiting off X-wings for the rebels.

Americans love oil, whether we're using it to lubricate our car engines, to fry our food, or to justify our military operations, but our favorite thing about oil is when somebody makes a TV show about people who got rich off of the stuff.

«He got rich off the backs of taxpayers after he steered a town contract to the same company he was moonlighting for on the side.

And how he got rich off of ruining peoples lives, is that what being a «christian» means to them?

Romney got rich off religion and other people also.

«Tokenaires» (people who got rich off token sales) hired private bankers, these bankers had other clients, and it cascaded outwards from there.

«Bookstores usually tend to run at 2 to 5 percent margin, so you're not going to get rich off it,» said Kinney.

Greenpeace Executive Director Phil Radford warned that «letting corporations get rich off of environmental devastation will make Obama's climate rhetoric look like the worst kind of greenwashing.»

Get rich off your name / brand, don't let Facebook, Twitter, etc get rich off you

And they're more than happy to get rich off your hard work.

Mostly, it's not small - scale farmers that are getting rich off the almond boom.

It's a pretty honest way to make a dollar — but nobody's getting rich off a single truck.»

Getting rich off cryptocurrencies is all fun and games — as chronicled in a recent New York Times report on the excesses of the crypto nouveau riche (paywall)-- until it isn't.

Trust me, odds are that the folks who write books on this type of stuff are getting rich off of their book sales, not their investing prowess.

It's sad when you think of the ones abusing a donation center by getting rich themselves off the generosity of others.

Instead they get rich off of sückering other people out of their money by conjuring up pretend people in the sky.

They claim to be men of God, but they screw around and get rich off poor trusting folks and just some plain dumb folks.

What bothers me is that he's gotten rich off this church, and to me being a humble servant of God and being rich are mutually exclusive.

Unfortunately, instead of feeding the poor, sheltering the homeless and helping those less fortunate, many take advantage of these platforms in order to increase their own personal wealth — selfishly getting rich off of the generosity of others.

Being a successful Christian and getting rich off Christianity are two VERY different things.

Maybe you can get rich off of it.

A lot of people get rich off the Cowboys.

Her goal isn't to get rich off of selling these cookies she has a passion for breastfeeding just like I do and just wants to share her cookies with mama's who need a little help with milk supply.

They get it for free in many cases and are getting rich off of it!

Silver's attorney agrees that it was «distasteful» of the former Assembly speaker to get rich off people who stood to benefit from the power of his office — but, he told jurors, that doesn't make it a crime.

Two Big Apple real - estate developers were irate when they discovered Sheldon Silver was secretly getting rich off them — but not enough to send the powerful Albany politician packing, witnesses...

«If you are a property consultant trying to get rich off of the misery of people in need, this bill was crafted just for you,» Sanders said in a statement.

Two Big Apple real - estate developers were irate when they discovered Sheldon Silver was secretly getting rich off them — but not enough to send the powerful Albany politician packing, witnesses testified Monday.

Prosecutors on Tuesday showed the jury emails from Taub that suggested the then - Columbia University cancer doctor secretly disdained Silver and his law firm as part of a dog - eat - dog crowd that merely sought to get rich off mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.

He won't be getting rich off this gig and it's not a permanent job.

Indeed, the feds caught Seminerio on tape telling ex-Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin (who was also put away for corruption) that he got into the «consulting» business after watching folks in the health - care industry — Rosen, specifically — get rich off of state funds that he helped secure.

«Bill Gates is getting richer off Einstein — I find this totally absurd,» he says.

Perhaps once we are established in space, the barnstormers and commerce barons will reemerge, getting rich off asteroid mining and amazing billions of Earthlings with new daredevil risks.

That's what the scam is all about they want to get rich off of your gullibility and ignorance.

This looks like the director wanted to get rich off of making the next Wedding Crashers, American Pie or The Hangover... except without all the excess baggage like style, wit, charm and empathy.

I think this is because documentaries, as opposed to fiction films, are usually made by movie - makers who have seized a strong subject and don't expect to get rich off it.

It's too short to do justice to its subject, but in an era when young women build careers and get rich off «secret» sex tapes that somehow make their way onto the Internet, maybe that's all this subject deserves.

All those years David Chase was getting rich off his mob soap opera, «The Sopranos,» what he REALLY wanted to do was «get the band back together.»

A combination of embarrassment, fear, and rage overcome these families who lose it all, while the wealthy get richer off of it all.

Three friends (from left, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day and Jason Bateman) think they'll get rich off of their Shower Buddy invention.

I will give you a taste of some tofu that I could open a restaurant and get rich off of.

Charter school opponents have manufactured and perpetuated a myth that a handful of wealthy philanthropists are getting rich off of charter schools and trying to destroy public education.

He is going to get rich off of our education system.

With every passing day, it is becoming increasingly apparent that «education reform» isn't about providing children with the quality education they need and deserve to live more fulfilling lives in the 21st Century, but a way for the individuals and companies associated with the education reform movement to get rich off taxpayers at the national, state and school district level.