Sentences with phrase «in the company of rich»

Have you ever been in the company of rich women?

Also, being in the company of rich women could be quite inspiring.

Meg immediately commands the attentions of Lord Darlington (Stephen Campbell Moore), a notorious raconteur and rake who idles away his days and nights in the company of rich cronies, including Tuppy (Tom Wilkinson), more formally known as Lord Augustus.

Not exact matches

The Nanaimo, B.C., digital marketing company that landed the richest deal ever on Dragons» Den — then rejected it in favour of a better offer — has made an acquisition that its founder says gives it «the complete package» to take on its super-sized American rival.

Laingen started the network in 2004, while working for Minnesota Wire, a small manufacturing company that realized that high - tech entrepreneurs needed some way to band together and tap into the rich vein of military spending.

The billionaire still eats lunch with his employees in the company cafeteria, and though he's the richest person in the fashion industry, he sticks to a simple uniform of a white shirt and blue blazer.

This has created an ecosystem in which two of the world's richest and fastest - growing companies are bidding against one another for hot investments.

Jack Ma's fairytale journey from schoolteacher to China's richest man was the signature entrepreneurial storyline of 2014, an arc that culminated in his e-commerce company Alibaba completing the splashiest IPO in Wall Street history.

He chalks up the service's success with a broad spectrum of age groups to its ease of use and suggests that by keeping the less tech - oriented user firmly in mind, his company has tapped into a rich vein of customer need and appreciation.

Berg wrote that while his team understands Salesforce's interest in MuleSoft's technology, he believes «the purchase price to be too rich,» and questions what Salesforce — which exclusively sells cloud - based products — will do with MuleSoft's on - premise license offering, which makes up a substantial portion of the company's revenue.

Saudi Arabia's oil - rich monarchy is one of America's most important strategic partners in the Middle East and a significant patron of U.S. defense companies.

The Silicon Valley worker benefits and perks — the free, fresh produce and transcendental meditation pods — have become symbols of the riches created in the tech sector and how good it has been to workers, but the hype belies the truth that many of the employees operating within big tech companies are working on second - class contract terms.

«If they are successful, they could drain the full value of the company — that's easily in the millions,» said Rich Mason, president and chief security officer of cybersecurity consulting firm Critical Infrastructure.

«Your individual biology, your health history and ever - fluctuating state of well - being, where you go, what you spend, how you sleep, what you put in your body and what comes out» — that rich - but - messy heap of information, more than anything else, is what's driving these companies together, write Erika Fry and Sy Mukherjee in their terrific cover story for Fortune's April 1 issue («Big Data Meets Biology»), which we're posting online today.

In Cincinnati, «these big corporate strategic companies [are] baked into the startup space,» says Rich Mitchell, director of strategic growth markets for Ernst & Young.

It is also restricted almost entirely to Africa, which, unfortunately for its victims, makes it a less attractive target for big drug companies than a host of non-fatal diseases (think erectile dysfunction) that are more common in rich countries.

But if enough people feel SpaceX is threatening what they value (such as the environment — here or there), or disadvantaging them in some way (for example, by allowing rich people to move to another planet and abandoning the rest of us here), they'll make life difficult for the company.

In the entrepreneurial world of the»80s, people got rich through logical means: starting companies, working hard, and hoping their efforts would build value.

A member of the royal family and a nephew to the late King Abdullah, Alwaleed built his riches through an investment holding company he founded in 1980, Kingdom Holding.

While Musk is clearly smart enough to have considered all this already (or at least to pay someone else to consider it), Maynard ends with a word of caution for the SpaceX team: «If enough people feel SpaceX is threatening what they value (such as the environment — here or there), or disadvantaging them in some way (for example, by allowing rich people to move to another planet and abandoning the rest of us here), they'll make life difficult for the company.»

There are far easier ways to «get rich» and entrepreneurs, especially in the early days of their company, make far less than they could just getting a job.

The Israeli - based company just nabbed $ 60 million in a round led by América Móvil, the Latin America telecom run by one of the richest men on the planet, Carlos Slim.

Barbasol first started making shaving cream back in 1919, and over the course of the last hundred years, the company has perfected the recipe for a rich, creamy product that goes on thick and helps you get a nice, close shave.

He owes some part of his undisclosed fortune to business partnerships with companies and individuals in the oil - rich Gulf, between his golf - course and hotel - building ventures and the Manhattan office space he reportedly rents to Qatar Airways.

In effect, the birth of Vinyl Trends Inc. — a 22 - employee Kitchener - based company that ranked 414thon the 2014 PROFIT 500 — was all about finding the riches buried deep inside a dumpster.

And given the disparity in wealth between Walmart employees (many of whom live below the poverty line) and the Walton family (who control the company, and who are the richest family on earth), this might be a situation where giving beyond what you're legally required to give might be the right thing to do.

The company has been working to increase its video assets in recent years, particularly with the purchase of rich - content syndicators 5 Min Media in 2010, and the launch of its video library AOL On.

Buffett, who is one of the richest men in the world and worth $ 74.3 billion, according to Forbes, traditionally has an investing strategy centered on stable companies that sell consumer staples and will be around for many years.

In his post on the company blog, on Monday, Musk labeled Eberhard as someone who falsely «plays to a common archetype — that of the noble inventor whose invention is usurped by the rich and powerful businessman.»

Its team brings a rich and diverse experience in venture capital, technology, entrepreneurship and finance, triggering value creation across all the business and operational functions of portfolio companies.

An infographic developed by social - media marketing company NowSourcing details some of the qualities and traits shared by the rich (we're talking those who earn more than $ 160,000 a year and have $ 3.2 million in assets).

The company told Business Insider's Mike Shields in mid-September that it is touting this pool of data, which it says is rich with information on people's shopping habits, in planned meetings with numerous agencies and marketers over the next few weeks.

Each one of those companies has a rich history, and hasn't been able to acclimate well enough to the era of apps and online retailing - something Firebrand Group just finished covering in its Future of Retail orange paper.

Some companies strike it rich right out of the gate, like Drugstore.com, in Bellevue, Wash..

Thailand's third - richest man is set to take control of Fraser and Neave (F&N) in Southeast Asia's biggest M&A deal after a group led by an Indonesian tycoon bowed out of a two - month bidding war for the $ 11.4 billion Singapore company.

In a financing universe as rich with capital and opportunities as this one is, a fair number of small and young companies will be able to steer their way clear of banks altogether — at least for a while.

Had he poked around the company's online store instead of giving in to retail temptation, he could have been $ 800 richer.

The heiress to the L'Oreal cosmetics fortune and the company's largest shareholder, Liliane Bettencourt is the richest woman in the world, with a net worth of $ 36.8 billion, an increase of $ 3 billion in the last year alone.

John Collison, the Irish cofounder of Stripe, the payments processing company now powering many in - app purchase systems, has been proclaimed the world's youngest self - made billionaire by Forbes in its new world's richest list.

According to information provided by IPO Reporter, in just the past two years nearly 100 companies — lured by the riches of a superheated IPO market and often rushed to market by investment banks eager to cash in on the bonanza — have endured the same humiliating letdown.

The heiress to the L'Oreal cosmetics fortune and the company's largest shareholder, Liliane Bettencourt is the richest woman in Europe and the second - richest woman in the world, with a net worth of $ 29 billion.

Early in 2015, Shanghvi became the richest man in India for a period of time after his company's stocks surged.

My rule of thumb is that conversion-wise, landing pages are by far the most precious asset in a company's websiteand many businesses have realized the power of integrating rich media onto their landing page.

You stated your interest in a city where you can grow your company to 50,000 employees over the next 20 years, a home base that can hold your interest... a strong sense of place, a rich cultural life, great transit systems, smart young people and plenty of infrastructure - ready land that is close to both the business center and top universities... density, walkability, and diversity... some of the nation's finest universities... tech - savvy millennials... Philadelphia, the birthplace of America, offers all of these desirable attributes at a more affordable cost.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

One backdoor way of having a portfolio rich in cash is to invest in companies that themselves have high cash balances on their balance sheets.

SAN FRANCISCO — In a start - up's initial public offering, a lot of people can get fabulously rich: the founders, early employees and the venture capitalists who staked the company.

Katie Brewer, CFP of Your Richest Life, warned against over-investing in your company's stock.

What this means is that, one day, most people's connections to the internet will be mediated by some of the richest companies in the world, namely telecoms (or telecommunications companies, to give them their full titles).

Denton was featured in the Sunday Times Rich List 2007 in position 502 with an estimated wealth of # 140m (approximately $ 290m) based on the sale of his previous companies and the current value of Gawker Media.