Sentences with phrase «n't make any money at it»

In the traditional supply chain, an average long tail product would not make any money at all, because it wouldn't be stocked anywhere.

They have to believe you're going to be successful because they won't make money at this price but they will do it.

I tell my peers:» If you are not making money at $ 1300 you should not be in this business.»

In other words, if I am not making any money at some point I start doing something else.

Some haven't made any money at all — and the reasons are as numerous as in any other field.

Not making money at all?

You may not make any money at all.

Friends with small press contracts who contemplate leaving writing because they can't make any money at it.

I was a real estate agent and I was losing money not making money at the time.

Inversely, if there are places that are not making any money at all but my audience is there, I'll go there.

One more thing, when I was a data entry clerk, the clinic I worked in was not getting any patients to work on, and was not making any money at all.

A hard money lender isn't going to give you a loan for 4 % — he doesn't make any money at that rate.

You won't make any money at your daughter's Christmas recital, but don't you think you will fill her bank account with love when you show up and clap thunderously at her performance?

You are not making any money at 3 % «appreciation ``.

Steve Smith is confident that the online store will be a success: «The first few years we didn't make any money at Poundland.

Not exact matches

«Restaurant Brands is really good at pruning items from their menu that don't make money and adding new innovative items with higher margins,» says Winder.

«Most people are in prison because they didn't know how to make enough money legally,» says Jackson, who has more than a decade left in his sentence at Green Haven.

E-1 wages were not increased between 1952 and 1958, so Korean War and Vietnam War troops made the same amount of money at the lower ranks — except inflation over the years drove the real value of the wages down.

But because she was still new to the industry, the project didn't make her much money at all.

«I'm not going to sit at Nutanix only to make more money.

Neither make you money — at best, a 30 - day GIC will pay between 0.1 % and 0.9 % interest — but at least you won't lose any while you research better ways to allocate it.

Today the company is valued at over $ 2 billion, and Turner can't imagine ever leading a company that doesn't have a purpose beyond making money.

«When they're not making as much money, people will be a lot more sourpuss on them,» says Stephen Baker, vice-president of consumer electronics analysis at market research firm NPD Group.

The customer will select the car... but TrueCar has to make sure it's insured, so we solve that problem by making sure the customer not only has insurance at their fingertips, but will also save a bunch of money.

In the beginning, you are not going to be profitable, and you might end up making a considerable amount of the money at the end of the first month but that is unlikely.

This doesn't mean there isn't a great deal of money to be made during the bear market (on both the long and short side), but at some point we must recognize that our global imbalances all remain.

«The first year — or even three to four years — you aren't going to make any money at it, or if you do, it will go back into the business.

Now let's be realistic — not everyone is going to be able to invest $ 1,000 and make $ 2,000 profit month after month, but the key is to at least explore PPC advertising as an option and be willing to invest some money to try it for a couple months.

So while there are certainly arguments to be made in favor of a rules - based Fed over the pure discretion of the current PhD standard, such reform should not be viewed as a solution to the real issue, which is a central bank having a monopoly on money at all.

Phil Chen, founder of HTC's Vive, says consumer VR isn't dead yet — and companies using VR in health and at work are making real money.

By allowing angels and VCs to invest small amounts of money in many companies at a very early stage, accelerators give investors the right, but not the obligation, to make additional investments in the most promising ventures.

Chaulk and Feldstein could not be more different from one another, yet both men demonstrate how the push to clean up and rebuild this city is at once a national project, a chance to make some money, and a test of the business and logistical acumen of those actually dealing with the mess.

With gold trading at $ 1,650 an ounce, it's easier for investors to see who is making money and who's not.

While the express delivery company didn't take off immediately — at one point, he resorted to saving the company with an emergency trip to Vegas and wiring money he made at Black Jack — by the late 1970s, Smith was on his way to building the $ 48 billion company he still runs today.

It also became apparent that profitsharing didn't compensate for a deal structure that benefited the private investors at the government's expense — a lot of SBICs made big profits even as the SBA lost money on its investment.

If you don't, you are flying blind, never really sure if you are making money or not, until you do your tax return at the end of the year.

Jon Bon Jovi on how he feels Steve Jobs and iTunes have altered the music - buying experience... for the worse The Sunday Times, March 2011 Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album, and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it.

But at the end of the day, many of them work for firms that have a vested interest in making as much money as possible for themselves and their shareholders — not for you, their client.

It seems unusual to encourage buyers to turn away from trends, because it's such an easy way to continue making money, but Cuyana isn't afraid of you embracing a lean closet; simply because they know that, if you come to them at some point, many of those pieces you love to rely on are bound to be Cuyana - made.

There was a lot of money made on residential property sales around Australia in the June quarter, but the joy wasn't spread around evenly, with more than 10 per cent of all houses and about 20 per cent of all units sold in Western Australia during the quarter selling at a loss.

So you're not profitable in the model for at least three to five years, and then what you would hope is that you can start doing licenses for shoes, bags, things like that and make your money.

If the company can demonstrate that it can figure out a way to make money at least as well as its peers — never mind the fact that its customers are almost entirely within the age 18 - 34 demographic that advertisers have traditionally most coveted — $ 19 billion isn't a goal; it's practically a done deal.

«If you look at the events that he has held and the attendance numbers, he's clearly not making money,» says a city official who asked to remain anonymous.

If his short doesn't work out, but the long end moves, then he still stands to make money or at least trim his losses.

When asked about how the company will make money, Systrom responded, «I'm absolutely certain that we're not going to be one of those start - ups that you talk about five years from now, that hasn't even looked at making money.

«The reality is e-commerce doesn't make money,» says Jennifer Lee, national retail leader at consultancy Deloitte.

However, as I've experienced myself, if you have the right temperament and you don't mind a little instability at times, you may make even more money and enjoy a greater sense of freedom and control over how much time you devote to work.

For instance, on his blog Baseline Scenario, University of Connecticut law professor James Kwak makes many of the same points as Quittner — the Zuckerberg - Chan donation isn't really a donation at all but a newly formed LLC that will have significant tax benefits for the couple, who will retain almost complete control over their money.

At our Entrepreneur Magazine Roundtable, investor Timothy Keating pinpoints the worst mistake business owners can make with investors: not showing how they'll make money.

A couple of years later, Congress made exceptions to the loss rules, for example, allowing taxpayers to report losses from real estate investments even when their own money wasn't at risk.