Sentences with phrase «making big fortunes»

I've made a big fortune out of the game, and I'm gettin» richer every day, but I've not gone in for dishonest graft — blackmailin» gamblers, saloonkeepers, disorderly people, etc. — and neither has any of the men who have made big fortunes in politics.»

Plunkitt's method of honest graft, where he «made a big fortune,» often involved learning inside information about where the government might build a bridge or a park, then buying up surrounding land before reselling it to the government when the value increased.

Not exact matches

Then he did the thing that gave him an even bigger fortune and made him a tech industry star: He cofounded Nutanix, the poster child of the unicorn - startup era.

It's been a year since Zimmerman's big vow, so Fortune checked in with the VC lawyer to see if progress has been made.

But that doesn't necessarily make Buffett's record look better: Berkshire's biggest winner over the last year is Verisign (vrsn), up 39 % over the past year — and it was likely a Combs pick, according to Fortune senior editor Stephen Gandel's analysis.

Today's must - read story is by Fortune's Katie Fehrenbacher on the five ways to make big companies more innovative according to some of the business world's most savvy executives.

The rate of growth has made the category a «major priority» for big brewers, Stirling tells Fortune.

At stake is his chance to work one last time with the rock band that made his fortune and legend — the Rolling Stones — and a shot at what could be the biggest concert tour in history.

FORTUNE — Delta could be making a big mistake pursuing Virgin Atlantic.

Bezos added $ 20 billion to his fortune this year, making him the biggest gainer on the list for the second year a row.

At Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit, Warren Buffett made a big claim about Hillary Clinton's presidential chances in 2016.

Silver - haired and low key, Hill, 55, made his fortune building the biggest concrete supplier in Las Vegas and then entered government in 2011.

As Fortune has noted in the past, Spotify's biggest problem is that it is still losing hundreds of millions of dollars every year, and the main culprit is the massive payments it makes to the music industry for licensing fees.

In other words, Wall Street is convinced the creator of Snapchat, which up until 2015 didn't have any sales at all, will be big enough to make the Fortune 500 by the time it turns 10 years old.

If you haven't already amassed the fortune you'll need for the rest of your life, you probably can't afford to make big mistakes with your money.

Bill Gates made his largest single gift since the turn of the century, giving away Microsoft Corp. shares that accounted for 5 percent of his fortune, the world's biggest.

They also know that is in those wildest moments - the rare but recurring crisis of the financial world - where the biggest fortunes of Wall Street are made and lost.

Summary of the Robin Hood conference: Einhorn, Tepper, Druckenmiller etc [ValueWalk] Profile of Renaissance Technologies» secretive Medallion Fund [Bloomberg] Reflections on the Trump Presidency, after the election [Ray Dalio] How T. Boone Pickens sits tight in the riskiest of businesses [NYTimes] The next generation of hedge fund stars: data - crunching computers [NYTimes] Treasury officials are warning hedge funds could create the next big crisis [Vox] Bill Ackman's 2016 fortune: down, but far from out [NYTimes] Omega's Einhorn sees Trump's policies boosting stocks [Reuters] Tourbillon's Jason Karp says Trump will make stock pickers great again [Reuters] John Paulson got Trump elected and now has favor to ask [Vanity Fair] Jim Chanos says Valeant was biggest loser ever for hedge funds [CNBC] Credit Suisse said raising $ 2 billion for hedge fund stakes [Bloomberg] Tyrian Investments to close [Reuters] Hedge fund strategies no longer correlated with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [ValueWalk]

[Steve Eisman] A write - up on the impending Hilton (HLT) spinoff [Clark Street Value] CBRE (CBG): industry deep dive to detect an emerging moat [Punch Card] A look at Discovery Communications (DISCA / K)[Contrarian Edge] Sustainable sources of competitive advantage [Collaborative Fund] Why deep learning matters and what's next for AI [Algorithmia] The unexpected genius of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg [Fortune] Google's online travel adventure upsets its biggest advertisers [Bloomberg] A billionaire's dreams of creating a guns empire [NYMag] If oil refiners crash, so will the economy [WSJ] Mastercard, Visa set to reap spoils of India's war on cash [Bloomberg] How Best Buy (BBY) fought Amazon [WSJ] The evolution of media & entertainment: conversation with CEOs [YouTube] How to get comfortable with being umcomfortable [Inc] Why gut feelings may really help you make risky decisions [Washington Post] Why stoicism is one of the best mind - hacks ever devised [Aeon]

Now is the time to make these fortunes as big as they're going to get.

«Big agencies understand what it's like to work with Fortune 500 brands and make it bigger,» he said.

The first guy who starts selling t - shirts with a big brown splotch on the front is going to make a fortune.

We dream of hitting the big leagues and making a fortune by growing and harvesting the pungent pods.

I think he is going to make a BIG difference to our fortunes this season.

Steph would drop him a line on big game days, making sure his brother knew he and the family had his back, but the encouragement could not change his basketball fortune.

Do not forget that United and Mourinho have spent a fortune and they were in second before the win over Arsenal, so the fact that we dominated so much and made so many chances is a big thing, albeit very frustrating that it did not earn us anything.

The report suggests that Rodgers will not find his own position under review, however, with Jurgen Klopp waiting in the wings, it would not be a surprise to see the former Swansea boss make a big effort to rapidly change his fortunes on Merseyside.

Klopp may have been hit with injuries to the aforementioned Gomez and Danny Ings, but he looks to be enjoying more fortune than his predecessor Brendan Rodgers when it comes to Christian Benteke, with the powerful Belgian forward fit and primed to make a big impact against Chelsea's unconvincing defence.

Jose Mourinho, it seems, is in the process of turning the club's fortunes around and making this side genuine title contenders this season with big name signings like Nemanja Matic, Victor Lindelof and Romelu Lukaku all adding to the allure now surrounding the north - west club.

Betting — It really ought to be one - way traffic, but Roy Hodgson has turned West Brom's fortunes right around during the six - months he's been there, in particular in making the team more competitive against the big boys.

We are going to make you a fortune on Sunday so get ready to win and win big!

Argentina forward Ezequiel Lavezzi has become the latest player to make a big - money move to the Chinese Super League after leaving Paris St Germain for Heibei China Fortune.

The Reds stuttered at the start of the campaign but the upturn in their fortunes has led to reports that Manchester City are making admiring glances towards Merseyside and, asked if Rodgers was equipped to meet expectations at a big - spending club, Monk said: «Yes, he can manage at the top, for sure.

And I would bet a small fortune she feels as though she has had to make some pretty big sacrifices for her kids too.

Look at Hollywood: Movie studios have made a fortune selling us miraculous stories that we watch on the big screen with... maybe not belief but hope in our eyes.

Just as everyone knows that a man who has a big fortune is more competitive in the dating game — they can make women be more confident in their ability to provide luxury life and financial support.

At the outset, however, the biggest issue facing Graham is that of a public offering, which will put her company in the Fortune 500 and make her the first female in that august group of American business owners.

For Laure, this is a spiritual act (one of many baptisms in the film), and for De Palma it's a correction: he flips Billy Wilder the bird by saddling his femme fatale with a crisis that matters, even if her personal pain is not readily apparent when she and a group of thugs break into the Cannes Palais, hoping to swipe a fortune in diamonds from Regis Wargnier's whorish girlfriend Veronica (Rie Rasmussen), with whom Laure makes out in a bathroom stall while Wargnier's hideous East - West plays on the big screen.

When: March 16th Why: Though they haven't always had the good fortune to work with big - name talent, the Duplass brothers have yet to make a bad movie in their short but impressive directing careers.

One of the biggest stars of the 1960s, Doris Day (above) withdrew from movie - making at the end of that decade after discovering that her late husband had squandered her fortune and left her deeply in debt.

«The Big Short» follows three groups of people who foresaw the crisis to come and bet huge amounts of money against the banks, thus somewhat guiltily making fortunes for themselves as much of America found itself broke and homeless.

It was my good fortune to be working at Microsoft when the big announcement was made in March of 1995: Microsoft was entering into a joint venture with DreamWorks SKG, the new film studio and entertainment company founded the previous year by mega-moguls Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen (the «SKG» in the company's original moniker).

Of course, it's a Hollywood - ized tale based on the legendary true story of Wyatt Earp (Russell, Big Trouble in Little China), a former lawman who moves with his three brothers out to Tombstone, AZ, in order to settle down and (hopefully) make themselves a small fortune.

«After 40 years I finally hit on the big one,» says Buzz B. Reft, a part - time barber and commodities trader in Brooklyn, New York, who claims his recent trademarking of the words Apparition, Specter, and Poltergeist stands to make him a fortune when British luxury maker Rolls - Royce one day decides to design a new model.

Then two of the biggest stars Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, were cast as the lead characters and the movie made a fortune so a few years later Queen of the Damned, was released.

I'm an indie author but I'm smart enough to know that the big publishers have made fortunes predicting what readers want.

The last S King book, the last Patterson, the last paper book I read came from the library where no one made any money, or from Amazons used books, where again the writer made nothing... I would pay 4 bucks rather than go the the library anyday, the big 5 need to see that, they are losing a fortune with their high prices.

The piece doesn't say, but I know «benefits, perks and myriad bonuses» can add up to really big bucks as well — so these guys are making a fortune!!!

Just a couple of questions if I may: 1 — May be George Soros made his fortune because he had already enough funds to leverage and to take that kind of huge risk, even if he is obviously one of the biggest traders we know, but money matters, doesn't it?

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