Sentences with phrase «invested in a business where»

«I always look at investing in businesses where I have a competitive advantage, and smoking it is not a competitive advantage, then it's not something that I'd get into.

It doesn't take an MBA to figure out that investors are unlikely to invest in businesses where they incur the tax hit twice.

Why would I want to invest in a business where the founders don't believe in it enough to take a significant equity stake?

And, to my mind, he has never invested in a business where he felt the incumbent management was foolish.

Why would you even want to invest in a business where you couldn't even get a return above AAA bond return?

Not exact matches

The feedback loop of the city making itself attractive to start - ups and start - ups helping to make the city attractive to talented young people (who in turn create more businesses that attract more young people) is only getting started, but Robinson says he can already see the effects both in terms of the area's legitimacy — «people are saying, «hey, I would actually invest here or I would start my business here» as opposed to 10 years ago where people would avoid the city at all costs» — and quality of life for young people.

The executives were there to pursue mining opportunities in Sudan, a country with a rough reputation in the Canadian business community and where, until recently, only mad dictators would consider investing in real estate.

This is where the venture capitalists we'd invited came in: Since it's their job to bet on and invest in the future, we felt it was important to solicit these experts» perspectives about what's happening now — and what's next — in business.

So there's a big cultural component of that and as well we have some forcing functions in the business that look for every year where can we drive efficiencies, where can we drive more effectiveness, where can we invest ahead of the curve?

And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

«I think Nova Scotians, regardless of where they live, will embrace an immigration strategy that actually will retain people in the province — people who are investing in communities, people who are running businesses, providing economic opportunities and, quite frankly, giving opportunities for our sons and daughters to stay here,» he said.

I thought I'd be investing in something where she was going to be away from the business for a year.

Most recently Kris spoke at the Collision Conference in New Orleans, LA where he joined friends, business partners, and former NFL Player Larry English and NBA Player Obinna Ekezie on the topic of leveraging social influencer and careers in professional sports to build and invest in technology companies.

But when you get to call them stocks and you get stock quotes daily on these pieces of paper that bounce around put people put numbers on it and volatility and all these other things where really it's not that meaningful, you know from one sense if you're investing in businesses and you did a lot of research and invested in eight different businesses with the proceeds of your sale, people would think you're a pretty prudent guy.

Scott has a BA from Duke University in Psychology and Sociology and an MBA from Columbia Business School where he was selected for the Applied Value Investing program.

Other important decisions included: understanding that investing in marketing was critical to generating sales; focusing on sales training, including the science and art of selling, was critical for building an expert and successful sales team; and most importantly creating a can - do business culture where coming to work was fun.

Worker cooperatives are businesses where the employee members typically invested in the start - up capital of the business as a joint entrepreneurial venture and own significant stakes.

«Even though there are a lot of opportunities, particularly in the retail sector where there is a lot of money to be made by developing banks» consumer banking businesses, the general perception is that Russia is still a very risky place to invest,» said Stubbs.

But businesses are very reluctant to invest in a slow growth world where there is over capacity in many industrial sectors.

Michael was a faculty of Columbia Business School from 1992 to 2004 where he taught MBA programs in general corporate finance, capital markets, securities analysis, value investing, and entrepreneurial finance.

«China is incredibly important, where we have invested an enormous amount of time, people, resources and money, in growing our business over the last decades,» Andy Bird, chairman of Walt Disney International, said in Xinhua news report last year.

I typically invest in low - risk businesses where the odds are on my side in regards to these companies being around in 20 or 30 years and still paying out dividends.

Dividend growth investing is a strategy where one buys equity in businesses with solid fundamentals and competitive advantages.

7:00 p.m. Keynote Address Bruce Flatt, CEO Brookfield Asset Management Topic: «REAL ASSETS: The Place to Be» Takeaways: The real asset industry and where it is headed; value investing in real assets; Brookfield's competitive advantages of scale, global reach and operating capabilities; and technology and its impact on the business.

When it comes to investing in an office space, business owners can be very particular about where their office is going to be located.

The ISDS chapter in a trade agreement of a country where you are considering doing business or investing could act as a shield against any arbitrary foreign government measures that would negatively impact your business.

Which areas of Amazon's business are growing the fastest — and where is the company investing in the future?

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if you get to a point where you look at it and you say look, we are continuing invest a lot of money in this, and it's not working and we have a bunch of other good businesses, and this is a hypothetical scenario, and we are going to give up on this.

There'll be some bumps along the way, but we're pleased with where we are so far in that business and excited about the prospects as we invest in new products.

Harmless Harvest employs a «seed to shelf» business model that includes investing in the rural Thai communities where its coconuts are grown.

Dairy Crest has also continued to invest in other parts of the business; for example, at Foston where a modern greenfield dairy has been created, readily capable of further expansion.

The hosts provide their tailor - made support and expertise, then guide the inventors in structuring a business plan, producing and market - testing a prototype, and preparing them for a pitch, where they will meet real potential investors and industry buyers ready to invest their own money and resources to bring their innovations to market.

All Stan has done is collect # 3m annual payments for «consultancy» or in any other business where capital is invested - interest.

«It would have been bad business practice not to have retained some small degree of flexibility to allow us to invest again in the right player and / or to maintain the current squad as and where we want to offer improved and extended contracts for key players.

Thomas Gravesen (Poker player): Since retiring in 2009 the former Everton mifielder now has a value of over # 80 million after investing into a number of businesses and moving to Las Vegas where he is a professional poker player.

«We've got to identify... what specialist businesses we are going to invest in, where are we going to make our contribution to the global economy,» he said.

Enabling growth requires an environment where individuals with drive and good ideas can get started in business and where good firms can invest and grow, thereby creating more jobs.

In Design for the Environment: Life - Cycle Approach Using a Newsvendor Model, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Gal Raz and research colleagues investigated which segments of a product's life cycle create the biggest environmental impacts and where firms should invest their resources in order to reduce those impactIn Design for the Environment: Life - Cycle Approach Using a Newsvendor Model, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Gal Raz and research colleagues investigated which segments of a product's life cycle create the biggest environmental impacts and where firms should invest their resources in order to reduce those impactin order to reduce those impacts.

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It's an error in thinking where one's decision to abandon or continue on with something — whether a business project or a romantic relationship — is based on how much time, effort, and resources have already been invested in that thing.

A lot of what I invest in is local, meaning teams that are doing business where they are also savvy about the culture and the market.

Second, it is investing in instructional approaches that increase student and parental engagement — such as differentiated school offerings for different student needs, as well as products and services for blended - learning environments, where the bulk of K — 12 online learning will ultimately be — both for its own full - time managed schools as well as for districts through its Fuel Education business.

These partnerships for action empower forward - thinking corporate leaders to invest in the communities where their businesses operate and their employees live, advance their unique corporate social responsibility initiatives, and enable their enterprises to thrive.

What it takes to implement integrated units of teaching - allocated teacher preparation time; an all in approach and culture, where schools are prepared to invest in a system of integrated courses across a whole stage or school; a readiness to engage in community and business partnerships; a willingness to be adaptable and flexible in terms of teaching time and staffing issues.

We are witnessing the auto industry enter a new phase, one of steely - eyed, hard - nosed business decisions, where shareholder money only will be invested in ways that provide double digit returns, including the cost of capital.

Back in February, Kathleen and I ran into each other at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where President Obama made the important business case for investing in America's roadways, railways, runways, and transit systems.

As you can see by clicking the illustration to the left, it's possible to drill down from broad - based topics like Business & Investing through Small Business & Entrepreneurship, to specific subtopics and strategies where your book could become an Amazon's Top 100 sellers in that category.

It gives our employees a dynamic and energizing working environment while allowing us to invest in the Massachusetts economy, growing our business where it all started.»

So that leaves one with two choices: Either pretend there's this mythical writing business where you don't have to be effective at marketing or invest time, money, and expertise in making your book selling business go, or acknowledge that writing is a wonderful passtime, but that selling books is a retail business that requires different skills, and that these days getting read by anyone (readers, agents, publishers) involves you figuring out how to find your audience and gain visibility — AKA marketing and promoting your books.