Sentences with phrase «of making money at»

Thanks for the insightful posts about making a go of making money at art.

If the class - action lawsuit against Honda, Nissan, Toyota and Ford rules in favor of the plaintiffs he notion of making money at all costs will also prove to be catastrophic at these companies.

Not exact matches

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.

In every case a huge amount of fixed costs up front is overwhelmed by the ongoing ability to make money at scale; to put it another way, tech companies combine fixed costs with marginal revenue opportunities, such that they make more money on additional customers without any corresponding rise in costs.

At the top of his site, he lists exactly how much money he made that month.

Helena Morrissey of the London - based Legal and General is making a big push for sustainable investing, saying at a conference Monday that individual investors are becoming increasingly wary of putting their money in the market as they fear companies will act in ways that run counter to the investor's own moral beliefs.

You can also think of this model similar to how Dan Sullivan of the Strategic Coach talks about how you need to spend most of your time doing the things you are best at and enjoy doing that you can also make money doing.

«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.

One of the things that could help Medium differentiate itself, at least in the short term, is support for paywalls and other ways for publishers to make money.

Michael Fotios» Eastern Goldfields has made a series of last minute payments to contractors owed money by the company to stave off a planned protest ahead of his appearance at the Diggers and Dealers Mining Forum in Kalgoorlie.

«The kinds of people who are willing to lie, cheat and steal to make money at any cost.»

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.

It is unseemly at best to resist so adamantly the pleas of members of another historically - disadvantaged group that he stop making money from a brand that adds insult to injury.

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.

Consider the possibility that you're making all of that money so you can do something that's bigger than you and whatever it is you're supposed to be focusing on at work.»

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.

On stage at the conference, Paltrow Neumann said the first thing the couple did when they made some money for themselves was pay back the original investors of their previous failed endeavors.

My 29 «Foundations of Entrepreneurial Management» students at Babson College made solid 12 - month revenue estimates in three days so I know it can be done without spending a huge amount of time or money.

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.

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.

The futures offered by Cboe Global Markets Inc., and similar contracts that start trading in a week at at another Chicago - based exchange, CME Group Inc., may open the door to greater inflows of institutional money, while also making it easier to bet on bitcoin's decline.

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.

«When payments are made at stores, change can be provided in the form of an airtime top - up or mobile money.»

But the company's willingness to spend (and lose) limitless sums money to drive competitors out of business raises a question regulators might soon have to answer: At what point does being too competitive make you anti-competitive?

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.

This is how Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway make money — by consistently finding outperforming companies and acquiring them, or part of them, at fair costs.

As Ko has now learned twice over, money is at the root of every decision you make as a business owner.

But I would make the observation that if you stumble on to a really important idea that has the potential to be really valuable, know that others will enter into the market precisely because markets are competitive and a lot of money and prestige is at stake.

«You've got three different ways that Equifax is making money, millions of dollars, off its own screwup,» the Senator said at the hearing.

If mortgage interest rates were higher, paying down this debt would make more sense, but with rates at about 4 percent, investing that money could yield a higher rate of return.

Even MORE money is at stake than what Kobe or even the best rock bands in the world can make by being at the top of their game.

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.

«Make sure you are protected from anything that might take down your business that you worked so hard to build,» said Hunter Hoffmann, head of U.S. Communications at Hiscox Small Business Insurance of White Plains, N.Y., during a Money Talk radio interview.

Geoffrey Weston, partner and head of EMEA airlines practice at Bain & Company, explains how frequent flyer programs help airlines make money.

«Whether they made their money lobbying lawmakers at the Capitol or cashed in on a tech IPO, rich millennials are clustered in cities where there are lots of high - paying professional jobs,» reads a post today on Zillow's Porchlight blog.

the beach club at Encore has made a lot of money for Steve Wynn.?

«At the end of the day, Fox will get more money than it could have by it operating those businesses and Disney will make more at the outset.&raquAt the end of the day, Fox will get more money than it could have by it operating those businesses and Disney will make more at the outset.&raquat the outset.»

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 real shocker is that psychopaths have a high rate of «success,» at least in terms of garnering popularity, making lots of money, and advancing to high positions in companies and political circles.

«Almost every failed entrepreneur... overestimates their ability to generate revenue, or underestimates what it'll take» to start making money, says Stewart Thornhill, executive director at the Pierre L. Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship at the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

Halloween is just around the corner, and while some people prefer to save money and make their costumes at home, the run up to October 31 is now one of the biggest for UK retail.

Thurman says that as people in business, «we should take heart because, although a lot of people who consider themselves progressive and spiritual feel like business is something very lowly, that it's about just making money, the vocation of business can be extraordinarily honorable and has the ability to make a long - lasting positive impact on our society and world at large.»

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.