Sentences with phrase «million dollars»

Joby Weeks, a bitcoin entrepreneur, tells the Times that he lost almost a million dollars in virtual currency after hackers swiped his mobile number.

Some common themes that emerge from millionaires who are asked for advice is that making a million dollars doesn't happen overnight, and it requires consistent hard work and good habits.

Kanye West and his wife Kim Kardashian West bought their Hidden Hills, California, mansion for $ 20 million and have spent an additional $ 20 million dollars in renovations since they bought the property, according to TMZ

Lately, it seems like the Internet has become saturated with conceited articles with cliché titles the likes of «How I Made a Million Dollars before Turing 21,» or «10 Life Hacks to Become a Millionaire... and Awesome,» or «I'm So Cool, I'm a Millionaire, So You Should Listen to Me.»

Now we've got over 100 locations, and we sell a million dollars» worth of tickets in one day for the opera.

But the announcement of a refinancing plan of up to 2.1 billion dollars (including 1.5 billion refinancing debt and 600 million dollars from issuing new shares), along with suspension of dividends to shareholders, is making financial analysts» concerns look justified.

It's not that hard — though it took several years and several million dollars for us to get it right.

BIDEN, when asked who would pay more taxes in Obama's second term: «People making a million dollars or more.»

We paid Taylor's label and publisher roughly half a million dollars in the month before she took her catalog down — without even having 1989 on our service — and that was only going to go up.»

Drew Grewal faced fines of nearly half a million dollars because his Miami Beach home was being listed illegally on Airbnb.

One of Defy's biggest success stories is Coss Marte, a convicted drug kingpin who at one time made $ 2 million dollars a year running one of the New York City's largest drug rings.

A back - of - the - envelope calculation suggests that even if Sanders has been contributing just 3 % of his salary per year for his entire time in both the House and the Senate — and has earned a modest 5 % annualized rate of return — he'd have accumulated almost half a million dollars by the end of 2015, thanks in part to the government's matching contributions.

These are all things that I wouldn't swap for a million dollars.

Everybody who gets into the business wants to work with people who have a couple million dollars to invest.

One hundred million dollars in two or three years?

Twenty years ago, it cost several million dollars to launch an e-commerce startup, which can be done today for a few thousand dollars.

You will find your path to a million dollars a lot easier if you choose your customers wisely.

Nowadays, it seems, a new business is apt to be a Compaq or MIPS kind of thing, hitting the ground fully capitalized, fully researched and developed, fully located, fully staffed, and fully positioned to rake in a few hundred million dollars within the first three years.

With full attribution under their wings, the consortium shopped around interested buyers, finally selling the work to Yves Bouvier, a Swiss art dealer, for a whopping $ 80 million dollars.

Depending on where you're at right now in your coaching business, an income of $ 1 million dollars may seem intimidating, or even out of reach.

By tapping female advisers, investors, and employees, the company hit half a million dollars in sales and ran out of its holiday inventory just six months after launch.

Rap Genius eventually overcame its troubles with Google, and in February Gilbert offered to lead a $ 40 million investment, valuing the company at several hundred million dollars.

While his family was away, Alexander quietly opened the store, using more than half a million dollars of his father's money.

CNBC's Robert Frank reports on wealthy Americans giving to charity hitting an all - time record, the Playboy Mansion selling for $ 105 million dollars, and the upcoming tax bill for Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn Co-Founder, after his company's takeover bid from Microsoft.

This is huge news for the 3 - D - printing industry — the printers can cost up to a million dollars each.

DeLuca, who also lays claim to owning the largest movie photo collection, believes «the greatest movie poster in the world» would sell for two million dollars.

Smarter phoning: You don't make a million dollars by standing still.

Nonetheless, the company says it concluded a successful ICO on Friday, raising over 22,261 units of the digital currency Ethereum — worth about $ 6.7 million dollars.

How are you going to build 14 fillers and you only have a million dollars?

When Liedtka's team recently tracked a U.S. government scheme to allow any employee anywhere in the country to submit ideas to improve their workplace, it found that one woman's suggestion to reduce waiting times in her local hospital was potentially able to save the hospital a million dollars yearly.

The winning bid for a private lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett may top several million dollars in an online auction to benefit a California homeless charity.

It was more than a million dollars in debt, according to Brad Adamsky, the attorney who handled the bankruptcy.

Thus far, GCY has sent 500 students to live in developing countries and has secured donors including the Arnhold Foundation and money manager Shelby Davis, who have each contributed a million dollars or more.

Refusal to negotiate salary can cost women up to half a million dollars in their working life.

Adding thousands of new greeter positions could cost Wal - Mart a few hundred million dollars each year, but even a 10 % drop in theft would probably offset those additional costs.

«All I know is that it was a high - priority film for them,» says Logan, «and that they lost a half a million dollars.»

Eyal just sent round a note saying that last week brought in a million dollars in direct advertising bookings, positioning us well for a further rebound once the future direction of the business is clear.

Yet Beliefnet cost about a million dollars to design and build — LifePosts will cost about a quarter of that.

LifePosts» initial funding (under a million dollars) came mostly in $ 25,000 increments from individual angel investors — a class of people that is larger and better organized than it was in 2000.

President Donald Trump is defending Fox News Anchor Bill O'Reilly after a report claimed he paid 5 women $ 13 million dollars to settle harassment claims.

You can argue that the money is small — a few hundred million dollars — and that doesn't sound like much.

«I thought I would compound a fund at a high rate, and therefore if I gave away all my money when I had a million dollars it would deprive the world of many billions later on.»

The auction house said in a release that they expect the notebook to be purchased for more than a million dollars, and a portion of sale will go to charity.

The game, in which players climb the Los Angeles social ladder, is on track to earn $ 200 million dollars annually, according to analysts.

Facebook rakes in half a million dollars a day from these ads on mobile devices, a figure that should increase as more advertisers take note and Facebook fine - tunes the delivery.

When he bought La Vie en Rose in 1996 from the Algo Group for $ 2.4 million, it had 26 stores with annual sales of $ 16 million — and was losing a million dollars a year.

As an example, Adamson tells of a Toronto high - net - worth investor who was considering investing about half a million dollars in an information technology company about to go public in June 2014.

«We made what I call my $ 15,000 mistake,» says Morelli, who now has a growing business that's bringing in half a million dollars annually and has five employees.

By the time the campaign came to a close, Grayl had raised nearly a quarter - million dollars — more than 14 times what it'd earned through its first crowdfunding attempt.

The letter made several allegations of fraud at Silvercorp — most importantly, that its reported profit of US$ 66 million in 2010 was a lie and it had instead lost half a million dollars, plus that its reserve estimates were exaggerated.