Sentences with phrase «making bad deals»

Towards the end of the mid-2000s buyout binge, Blackstone and others were making some bad deals that the sovereign wealth funds didn't know about, or ignored.

I did make a bad deal.

Soon after executing this letter, Shkreli sought to renege on the agreement, because he thought he had made a bad deal.

«Taco Bell made a bad deal setting the number at 100,» says coach Don Nelson....

Maybe the Giants should have gone after Frazier rather than trade for Longoria, where even if he has a good year, the contract left makes it a bad deal.

County spokesman Justin Meyers said «we'll not be bullied into making a bad deal for taxpayers.»

He didn't seize the opportunity to prey on a naive girl and make me a bad deal.

It is obvious that Scribd made bad deals with the publishers.

It comes with a lower annual fee of $ 69, and a lower annual bonus of 3,000 points, which ultimately makes it the worse deal between the two.

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Sadly, when I left, the company made a bad deal with the borrower, and lost a lot of money.

These offers can seem tempting, but do they really make a bad deal much better?

It comes with a lower annual fee of $ 69, and a lower annual bonus of 3,000 points, which ultimately makes it the worse deal between the two.

Avios are usually the go - to currency for flights within Europe, but the fuel surcharges can sometimes make them a bad deal.

The Philadelphia Museum made a bad deal with Lawrence Salander, now they want their insurance company to pay $ 1.5 m to cover the loss of works by Maurice Prendergast and Arthur B. Davies, reports Bob Warner in the Philadelphia Enquirer:

In order to make this bad deal work, the coal companies were allowed to re-route the highway's proposed route, moving it away from local business districts and threatening to take thousands of acres of privately - owned land through eminent domain.

It treated the United States very badly, and frankly, it's an agreement that I have no problem with, but I had a problem with the agreement that they signed, because as usual, they made a bad deal.

Don't let your spouse's finances intimate you into making a bad deal.

All too often divorcing couples make bad deals because they did not consider the future financial consequences.

It's not uncommon for a spouse to agree to terms, then realize he made a bad deal.

Perhaps they should sue the Competition Bureau when they make a bad deal.

You won't be able to make a bad deal work.

«Sometimes, they make a bad deal, just so they can win,» says Steven Cohen.

How to use Don's patented «Green means «GO», Red means «NO»» tools to negotiate for you (so that you never let your emotions talk you into making a bad deal!)

This seller might have made a bad deal or invested in a less - than - perfect property — and now he wants to get rid of it, pronto.

If you are new to real estate investing, you might have made a bad deal and are losing money on or invested in a small property to start off, and now you want to move on to bigger projects.

I'm not saying we're going to make bad deals, but, for example, maybe being satisfied with 8 % profit on a flip instead of 10 % in order to buy now.

The problem is you're paying a premium when you buy the property and that makes it a bad deal from the get go.

Not exact matches

In the study sample of 60 different inversion deals, approximately 15 - 20 percent of shareholders fell into this long - term investor category and were made worse off from the inversion.

If Trump doesn't live up to his deal - making promises we could face another four years of legislative stalemate — which for many businesses may not be such a bad thing either.

He continues, «And to really make the situation really bad, I stayed around for another year, working at the company, closing out some deals and finishing up some stuff, which was incredibly unpleasant.»

It's unclear whether this is good or bad for borrowers — national banks, especially, support the consolidation; some local lenders and SBA staff say jettisoning the personal relationships makes it tougher to negotiate deals and workouts.

Because everyone wants to get to a deal, bad and ultimately unworkable agreements get made on a frighteningly frequent basis.

«There are some improvements that can be made in this agreement, but understand that status quo is a far better deal than getting bad changes to this agreement.»

Dealing with this kind of system and the bad loans that have been made because of it, present a formidable challenge for the government, he said.

Avoid these blunders, which are sure to make a bad impression — and could kill the deal.

But we have to make a better deal... KERNEN: I want to know... PRESIDENT TRUMP: The deal was a bad deal, like the Iran deal is a bad deal... KERNEN: You said — but NAFTA, maybe not NAFTA... PRESIDENT TRUMP: These are bad deals.

While the postponements are a necessity given the hand many teams have been dealt with bad weather, it will leave some teams in a tight spot when they are forced to make the games up later in the season.

Sales and marketing writer Preston Clark explored this notion in a great piece, «The Rise of the Silent Sales Floor,» in which he discussed how the «soundless» sales floor makes CEOs nervous because: «They aren't hearing the confrontation, the tension, the hard conversations that literally must happen in order to get the biggest, baddest deals across the finish line... The really big, complex, disruptive deals... those aren't closing on the silent floor.»

Making games for cellphones was the worst place to be, he says, since they had to deal not just with demanding publishers, but also with wireless carriers that knew nothing about games.

«What if I took some of the worst, most egregious terms in a standard term sheet and made them the defacto standard in most convertible debt deals?

The risk is Elliott could bully the company into a bad deal, but the potential to boost margins makes it a ripe target.

SAN FRANCISCO — Hewlett - Packard's $ 9.7 billion acquisition of Autonomy seemed like a bad idea long before Tuesday's allegations of an accounting scandal made clear it was a deal that should never have happened.

Or because he is holding onto some bad bets that depended on a Trump crash and OPEC failing to make a deal?

Why Goldman Sachs, which has had its own share of bad publicity over the years and always talks about being in the business of making sound judgments, would actively participate in a deal for a major gun retailer is baffling.

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The study, by Unifor economist and CCPA vice-president Jim Stanford, analyses CETA's likely effects on Canadian automotive trade, investment, and employment and claims the trade deal will make Canada's current trade imbalance with the EU incrementally worse.

It means dealing with how human drivers merge and change lanes (badly), how they make right and left turns in traffic (differently), how they adapt to different weather conditions (inconsistently) and how they obey speed limits, traffic lights and stop signs (sporadically).

One of the biggest and most common mistakes entrepreneurs make, which I have been guilty of myself, is not taking fast corrective action in dealing with a bad hire.

According to Martin Zwilling in Business Insider, «This is the ultimate bad guy whose sole intention of getting involved in early - stage investing is to take advantage of what they believe is the entrepreneur's lack of financial and deal - making experience.