Sentences with phrase «never invest in a business»

My grandfather always told me to never invest in a business that relied on the weather.

«Never invest in a business you can't understand.»

And, to my mind, he has never invested in a business where he felt the incumbent management was foolish.

Warren Buffett famously said, «Never invest in a business you don't understand.»

Not exact matches

We talked to a lot of people who had never invested in e-commerce and ones who were scared of a tangible, inventory - based business model.

«What I learned in those six months off was that my energy was coming from advising and investing conversations, so I never really picked up the pen to start writing the next business plan,» she said.

An old adage of investing in the stock market is that you should never invest money or funds that you can not afford to lose, and this is equally as applicable to investing in a business.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

In short, top entrepreneurs never stop investing in the most powerful, effective and best business and marketing tool at their immediate disposal — themselveIn short, top entrepreneurs never stop investing in the most powerful, effective and best business and marketing tool at their immediate disposal — themselvein the most powerful, effective and best business and marketing tool at their immediate disposal — themselves.

«Why would a company invest in an idea, since that model of doing business was never seen in Cyprus?»

If you don't know anyone who is in the business of investing in emerging - growth companies or if you have never made anyone a pile of money from investing in one of your companies, then you're just the type of entrepreneur who will get the most out of having an outside advisor in on the deal.

«I personally invest in some businesses that will never have a Facebook - type exit,» Schoffler says.

Personally, I've never understood people who got into this business for the excitement - get your kicks from theme parks or sports; the goal of investing should be to make guaranteed rates of return substantially in excess of your personal hurdle rate.

Most of the startups they invested in either died by running out of money before they found a scalable business model or ended up in the «land of the living dead» by never growing (failing to Pivot.)

Though friends or relatives who invest in your business understand the risks, you must never take the loan for granted.

With today's technology that should never happen, even a small business can afford to invest in a virtual telephone system to manage incoming calls so that no call goes unanswered.

Never invest or undertake any business dealings at all in a country in which I have an advisory responsibility, so that there is absolutely no conflict of interest;

«I've never invested in a subscription business because it was a subscription business,» she says.

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While you may never have the chance to own a business like See's Candies, by better understanding the nature of a dream business you can more easily find a business to invest in that shares some of its positive attributes.

«Over the past two years we have cut middle class tax rates to their lowest rates in sixty years, cut taxes for small businesses, while at the same time investing like never before in our institutions of higher education,» Cuomo said.

Lord Ashcroft has never invested in any of my business interests.

A hipster dystopia to Jasmine, her new digs are home to estranged sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins), a manic grocery clerk perpetually settling for palooka types like current beau Chili (Bobby Cannavale) and ex-husband Augie (Andrew Dice Clay), who understandably never forgave his in - laws for persuading him to invest his 200 - grand lottery win into Hal's sinking business.

He said: «There has never been a more important time for Britain to invest in the skills of our people and businesses.

A true value investor would never invest in a company that does not have an established competitive moat (e.g. brand name) protecting its core business.

Investing has never been easy, but in the decades I've been in the investment business it has come a long way.

If you've never invested in a stock, or took out a 401k plan, or ran a business, the material can cause a lot of headaches because it explains the material to someone that has, offering tips and presenting new ideas and occurences in the markets.

If this can be done, the proceeds can be used to invest in those stable dividend growers and those can then form a better core holding that you should never, if ever, sell (e.g. pipeline, telco, utility, bank, rail, energy company)... but only if some materail change in the their business occurs that you unequivocally disagree with.

However, as of the beginning of 2013 I've had to accept that I'm never going to make enough money from these sites to warrant the time and effort I'm investing in them, and I've had to make the tough decision to stop wasting time on them and to rather focus on my real businesses (and what I enjoy) again.

Before you quit your day job to become a full time artist, I suggest investing in some small business and money management classes, being a full time artist is hard work and never a steady paycheck, make sure you have «all your ducks in a row» before diving in head first.

Venture capitalists might invest in a high - quality team with a mediocre business idea, but they will never invest in a mediocre team regardless of how high quality the business idea might be.

But not all of the Illuminati are on board — business magnate Warren Buffett remains unwavering in his insistence that he will never invest in Bitcoin, and Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate and former chief economist of the World Bank, recently said that cryptocurrency will negate itself as it becomes more mainstream, as the lack of regulation is in essence what makes it attractive.

No matter what will happened, you mustn't be taken unawares, so never invest all money in business and always pay taxes and due, especially to social insurance and insurance police.

Hays are investing heavily in growing our IT recruitment teams - the business is growing and there has never been a better time to be a tech recruiter.

My business partner and I had invested in oil and gas in North Dakota during the last oil boom, in 2010, and could never find housing when we went there.

I know plenty of investors who were seriously over-leveraged in the 2008 bank recession (which hit investors first, BTW)- and who have never been able to return to the business of investing since.

Whether individual operators want to invest funds to beef up their existing security measures in light of events that they feel might never happen is a business and public relations decision, he adds.

It's never too late to start a business and investing in real estate can be a great decision.