Sentences with phrase «of wonderful businesses»

Strong profitability, a balance sheet that isn't overly leveraged (the interest coverage ratio is near 10), and a collection of wonderful businesses make this what is, in my view, an excellent long - term investment candidate.

What I am interested in is acquiring as much ownership as I can in a broad collection of wonderful businesses; firms that reward me, my husband, and our family with our share of the sales and profits from the underlying productive enterprise.

Its consistency — especially in regard to comps — is a hallmark of a wonderful business.

If I have 100 shares of a wonderful business, why would I want to slowly sell off shares?

What I'm not doing though is buying at a P / E of 20 and expecting the stock to one day trade at a P / E of 40 — even though, I know, there may come a time where Mr. Market gets overexcited with this kind of wonderful business and really does give it a P / E of 40.

Not exact matches

Being part of a well - known brand is a wonderful opportunity to avoid the unpredictability of the market and take advantage of the know - how of an already developed business.

Searles says he kept a framed version of the Berkshire CEO's famous quote — «I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them.

They do a show twice a month; each one provides wonderful insight to the world of small business.

«Many immigrants start businesses — whether it's high - tech companies like Elon Musk or Main Street businesses — so they're wonderful sources of entrepreneurship.»

«My gift to this wonderful institution pales in comparison with the gift that Yale gave me — the fundamental understanding that leadership requires an expansive worldview and a deep appreciation of the many points of intersection between business and society,» the class of ’80 graduate said in a statement.

I saw a wonderful example of this principle on Monday when five teams of my «Foundations of Entrepreneurial Management» students at Babson College tried to convince their skeptical classmates to buy from their businesses.

A new, improved version of something everyone already likes can be a wonderful idea for a new business, or so you'd think.

One of the best things about a franchise is that there are so many wonderful business owners across the country that you can learn from and share ideas.

«As with many great American institutions, i.e., General Motors, American Airlines, and many others who have utilized the strategic business tool called bankruptcy, Gary Busey's filing is the final chapter in a process that began a few years ago of jettisoning the litter of past unfortunate choices, associations, events and circumstances that visited themselves upon this great American icon, to enable the start of a new and clear path to peace, happiness and success with his career and his wonderful new soulmate, Steffanie, and their son, Luke.»

Instead of looking to work more or grow his business, Ellis says he's aiming to «hang out with my wonderful kids before they reach an age when they're off all the time doing their own thing.

While the costs of doing business must be a factor and accolades like business friendly or «Best Run State» are wonderful, the people and the quality of life are the principal reasons Wyoming is one of the best states for business.

The growth of e-commerce presents a wonderful opportunity for businesses to reach a potentially limitless audience, but it can be tricky to stand...

Author or contributing author of dozens of scholarly and practitioner articles, books and programs, Richard's work has been described by various faculty at Harvard, Yale, London Business School and elsewhere as «great & much needed,» «wonderful and pragmatic,» «thorough» and «nothing short of remarkable,» as well as by Fortune 500, NYSE, FTSE and other company leaders as «leading edge,» «ground - breaking,» «valuable guidance,» «indispensable,» «compelling» and «exceptional.»

-LSB-...] There's a wonderful description of a startup by Steve Blank: «a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business mode... «-LSB-...]

Warren is famous for this approach at Berkshire Hathaway, where he buys great businesses run by wonderful managers and then gets out of the way.

«A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business.

For extra encouragement, check out two of my favorite movies that feature sons who inherited businesses from their father: Kinky Boots and It's a Wonderful Life.

By contrast, when Mrs Neverland was there, some teenager from Funding Circle or similar was overhead telling them that they had «a wonderful business» and would have «no trouble» raising a planned six figure sum to throw down the hungry toilet of their business

I feel that dividend growth investors have an advantage in the area of identifying wonderful businesses - we know that cash is king.

«China is wonderful for us in business,» Gerry Grimstone, deputy chairman of the British bank Barclays, told Bloomberg television on the sidelines of the forum.

Warren Buffett credits Charlie Munger for helping him see the benefits of buying wonderful businesses at fair prices instead of fair businesses at wonderful prices.

But savvy entrepreneurs know that a wonderful business idea does not translate to a wonderful business opportunity; so I know I still have a lot of work to do.

Bill White, whom I have great respect for, as I call him Mr. Lean or Clean because in 2006, he wrote that wonderful paper for BIS talking about the role of central banks and should they be in the business of leaning into spectated bubbles or should they just wait and just clean.

After about fifteen minutes of heroic tales of «brilliant» business ideas failing in a wonderful fashion, I finally got to the point.

In the UK we think of hospitals as government business, as exemplified by the wonderful National Health Service that ensures each sick child is tucked into bed by an angelic nurse, as the opening ceremony for the London Olympics had it.

The conference presented many business and personal opportunities, but best of all, I met the wonderful ladies who introduced me to the region of Abruzzo.

Thank God you didn't go out of business; your product is a wonderful combination to taste, crunch, and above all a healthy food product.

Jules is sharing the story of her business and her own celiac story so be prepared for a long and wonderful read (as well as an exclusive giveaway at the end of this post!)

We also moved all CHOC Chick production and fulfilment to a new outsourced warehouse in Thornton Cleveley's near Blackpool and despite the stress of moving everything up North, it's wonderful to be part of such a thriving business and manufacturing community both in Brighton - Hove and the North West of England.

The group covered a wide swath of the food industry: from Dow Agro Sciences and the Soybean, Mushroom, and Peanut Boards; doctors from the Cleveland Clinic and professors from Harvard Business School; to representatives from Butterball, Dunkin Donuts, Chobani Yogurt, Wonderful Brands (the company behind POM), and McDonald's corporate dietician.

Now CEO of recently formed Premium Beverage in London, David cut his teeth at the sharp end of the business importing, distributing and kick - starting the fledgling premium & craft beer market with the launches of Hoegaarden, Leffe and lots of other weird & wonderful beers.

Whole Food Real Families has created many opportunities for me — it has challenged me as a business person and cook and allowed me to create a wonderful network of friends.

«Working with the various farmers, many of which are personal friends of mine, is a wonderful way to benefit Kauai's environment and island businesses,» said Machado.

Commenting on the awards, Iain Weir, Marketing Director from Ian Macleod Distillers, said: «We are thrilled to be able to celebrate the wonderful successes of the business.

we could have rotated him with lecoq.they could have shared the duties it would have been wonderful business for us.130 k a week is a good deal for a player of his standards.

I say this not as disrespect to Wenger but disrespect to the board, they have allowed standards to drop for the sake of profit, Wenger has done his job... It would have been wonderful if Wenger could make the BIG profit and win the EPL, I do hope that the next manager (when - ever it may be) will have support so he can focus on the sporting side and let the businessmen worry about the business.

The youngster was picked up from York City's first - team and put into the under 18's to help his development and it was a wonderful piece of business by the club.

That will be a limited time, and limited run selection of handpicked, handmade goods - things that are favorites in our own homes, from some very wonderful small businesses and artisans.

Digital music is wonderful, of course... and how most of our music is heard (this boy spends every minute of his computer time bouncing around our ITunes Library - checking stuff out, and making playlists like nobody's business - who knew that you could seamlessly go from Cat Stevens to Red Hot Chili Peppers to Natalie MacMaster to Dan Zanes?

This has been a hard year, with one of our major suppliers going out of business but, we are happy to have found some wonderful new things to replace them.

Such a wonderful business for those of us that do not live near a place with lots of healthy organic options!!

We have 3 wonderful children, a successful business, which the two older children now run, built our own house and generally just did the best we could, but when it came to the two of us...?

Green Mountain Diapers is a small husband and wife run business with the addition of 4 employees to help out, making them a wonderful team of people helping to serve every families cloth diapering needs.

It definitely made me look at Laurel and her incredible group of friends in a different light... Meanwhile, let me move on to regular business; here's a wonderful roundup of things to do this week.

I hope you will all join us in thanking Amy for these wonderful posts over the past 9 months and wish her the best of luck with her flourishing business.