Sentences with phrase «make a profit on something»

Now the Mormons I could picture tweaking their religion to make a profit on something like birth control.

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At that point, I was making something like 10 percent profit on my sales.

Rosenstein is on something of a hot streak this year, having made a profit of $ 300 million on shares of Whole Foods after the grocery retailer reached a deal to be sold to Amazon.

If you will be charged a monthly fee, you need to make sure that this is something that can be easily covered from the amount of profits you earn from trading on the provided signals.

As a policy it tapped into voter anger at the privatised utilities making abnormal profits, an area on which the Major government was vulnerable, and made the connection to tackling youth unemployment, something to which the Tories were seen as indifferent.

Given this situation, «many millennials are going out on their own — striving to find their way, the path that makes sense for them, doing something that ignites their passions and can provide adequate profit and power.»

Mainstream publishers, unless they decide to «make something of you (see Rowling, That Girl on a Train writer) will barely bother to publicize your work and pay you 25 % of the profits for not doing it.

I want to go with a big publishing company for the chance to say I was published by a big publishing company but I also want to make a profit off of something that I've already spent countless hours on.

You might invest only in profitable companies (ones that make money and probably pay regular dividends), thus excluding something like an oil exploration company, which will just lose money, and lose it, and lose some more, forever... unless it hits the jackpot, in which case you might suddenly find yourself sitting on a huge profit.

Going LONG & SHORT... to make a profit on anything requires that something be bought and sold, and that you sell at a higher price than you buy.

But then, suddenly, something messes with their mind and they lose all their previously made profits on one trade by revenge - trading, taking random trades, widening their stop loss or adding to the losing trade.

These car loan bundles are being seen as the solution to making a profit on loans, something that has become difficult with low interest rates.

Taking on investors can make a company more profit driven, and chasing profits often motivates changes in ingredient statements — and that's just not something we're interested in.

They do it to get you in the door hoping you'll spend exta money on some used games, a magazine subscription or something else they acctually make some profit on, because they only make a few bucks on new games.

On the flip side of all of this is the startling number of great concepts we're seeing and how those «winners» will hopefully go on to finish their games, look after the customers and also come back to create something wonderful again later on down the line with the profit they've made from their first venturOn the flip side of all of this is the startling number of great concepts we're seeing and how those «winners» will hopefully go on to finish their games, look after the customers and also come back to create something wonderful again later on down the line with the profit they've made from their first venturon to finish their games, look after the customers and also come back to create something wonderful again later on down the line with the profit they've made from their first venturon down the line with the profit they've made from their first venture.

Absolutely, but pointing out how difficult something is doesn't excuse you from doing a half - assed job and then squirting it out on to the internet hoping not just to recoup the minimal expense you invested but to actually maximise the profit you can make by handing PC players an inferior, underdeveloped product.

In 2014, that amount has only gone down so even if Nintendo insisted on making a small profit, they could get the price down to something reasonable.

sales don't really mean much though when it comes to nintendo systems, Wii made huge profits with only a handful of games (which is why it died pretty soon after, people still bought the system but after playing Mario Kart, Super Smash and Mario Brother's Wii edition so many times that system got old fast) The Wii - U was a MUCH better system but didn't sell because people didn't want an upgrade to the Wii, they wanted something new and nintendo did a HORRIBLE job promoting the Wii - U, not to mention they gave up on the Wii - U so fast they didn't even give it a chance, a system won't sell if it doesn't have enough games.

Gagosian Gallery, to me, is the real villain for accepting theft as something they make half the profits on and deeming this «art».

Some degree of fear is rather normal given the way humans approach risk, particularly with something like the risks from radiation, and particularly given inherent trust that comes from for - profit overlay onto the «common good» and (IMO) laying that fear exclusively at the feet of environmentalists, or simply labeling it as irrational, is more a product of ideologically - driven identity - protective cognition and tribalism on the part of nuclear proponents than a useful ingredient for making progress on energy policy development.

In addition to investing something back into the profession it makes good business sense to have people with a range of skills and abilities in a law firm, however, we do not look to make a profit on our trainees.

Even though I made a nice profit within ten days on my investment, I swore never to do something like that stomach churning idiotic risking of hard - earned - cash ever again... and I was a winner!

It defines selling as «delivering or giving up property to another in violation of duty, trust or loyalty and especially for personal gain, for something of value, especially foolishly or dishonourably, to exact a price for, to give into the power of another, to deliver the personal services of for money, to dispose of or manage for profit instead of in accordance with conscience, justice or duty, to impose on or cheat, to cause or promote the sale of something or to influence or induce to make a purchase.»

I have been contacting listings that are overpriced and have been on the market way too long... my conversations are usually less than 3 minutes and go something like this «I'm Dustin with HomeSmart... I like your property listed at 225, I have cash buyers that I would love to show this to but they want to make x amount of profit and would be willing to pay somewhere around x amount... I usually wait for there response which is anywhere from f# % $ & off to «the seller won't take 175 but he would consider 185»... I would say I can get a 20 - 40 thousand discount on about 1/3 of my calls... I've never had one of these calls last longer than five minutes.

My feel is that their internal margins are very reasonable and as such they pass along pricing that is more opportunistic for investors and there strategy is to make their income through repeat sales and lower internal operating costs than by trying to make a lot of profit on each individual property - something that I respect a lot.