Sentences with phrase «into piles of gold»

A company's success will always depend on their ability to turn that time into revenue in exactly the same way that a mining firm's success depends on its ability to turn digging and drilling into piles of gold and precious stones.

They set aside a little money late in their working lives and then hope the stock market will magically turn their meager offerings into a pile of gold.

Not exact matches

Thanks to unprecedented levels of uncertainty across many financial markets — particularly at the beginning of the year when China's collapsing stock prices sent shockwaves through equities markets worldwide, and then in June in the aftermath of the United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union — investors piled into gold as a safety measure.

Dwarves once lived the good life, enjoying a thriving society, but then in came the dragon Smaug, who claimed Erebor for himself, nestling into their mid-mountain pile of gold for a nap and turning the dwarves into a nomadic people.

She and her rival Nancy Kerrigan both hailed from working - class families, but, as Harding ruefully notes in Nanette Burstein's 30 for 30 documentary The Price of Gold, the media remade the polished, graceful Kerrigan into a «princess» and the brassy, unvarnished Harding into a «pile of crap.»

When Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard in 1973, inflation tripled, the dollar crashed and years of erratic monetary policy followed, investors piled into gold as a safe haven.

Between missions, you're dumped back into a tiny hideout where you can view your slowly growing pile of gold.

Travel down the tunnel into the main part of the cavern, where you will find a pile of gold and Aladdin's magic lamp.

Sometimes developers take a steaming pile of Great and Mighty Poo and turn it into gold; if not, these trite occurrences would never have become so prevalent.

So the most damning thing I can say about gold sellers is not that they interrupt the rest of the gamers by spamming chat channels, rudely camping spawns, or driving up prices by dumping huge piles of gold into the economy that wouldn't otherwise exist.