Sentences with phrase «own life savings»

For every investor who lucked into an early McDonald's or Jiffy Lube franchise, there have been hundreds who bet their life savings on untested concepts and ended up losing everything.

As Sanghavi and Shah launched the company with their life savings and on borrowed funds, there was a string of pretty anxious days.

Its future rests on the demand side — whether investors will continue to want it as a part of their life savings.

«When you need financial advice, they can be a tremendous help — it's just a matter of finding the best one for your situation (and being able to spot the Bernie Madoffs of the world before you hand over your life savings).»

We're asking you to give us your life savings, or to help you buy a home or invest.»

Believing these people, and afraid to miss out on the gold rush, small - time investors, grandma and grandpa, and barbers and taxi drivers invested their life savings in companies such as Pets.com, Webvan, and eToys.

The people I admired most were the bootstrappers who put their mortgages and life savings on the line.

And if franchisees aren't investing their own cash, there's a chance they won't take their work as seriously as people who have dumped their life savings into their businesses.

Mine your life savings for a few more months of runway.

We can create opportunities and competitions for young people (like the McDonald's All - American All - Star Games) that allow entrepreneurs to try — and fail or succeed — in low - risk situations, when their entire families» life savings aren't on the line.

«My role is not to get your life savings back,» he explains.

She had been self - financing her company Flytographer (2017 STARTUP 50: No. 16) up until then with her life savings accrued from her former (and lucrative) job as a marketing manager with Microsoft.

So I took my life savings — knowing full well that if it didn't work, I had sawed a limb off and I would have to go back to work for somebody else for the rest of my life.

CNBC's Phil LeBeau reports the latest on Tesla's safety concerns; and Patrick Hop, Berkeley student, shares why he poured his life savings into Tesla when shares were selling for $ 32.

When we used our modest life savings to open a yarn shop and website, we had a very small amount of inventory.

But that's not the only reason he was mad as hell when more than half - a-million-dollars» worth of his life savings became potentially worthless last August.

The former teacher needed the money to finance a home in the country, but he started joking that his life savings «were only earning $ 13 interest a month.»

Entrepreneurs have left their current jobs and poured their hearts and life savings into the wine world.

Remember, there's no reason you should be spending your life savings on an idea when you are completely ignorant of its viability.

After sinking his life savings into starting the company, finding chemists to formulate natural products, and creating inventory, he realized how many players there were selling this kind of product, and admits: «I didn't do my homework well enough.»

Every single presentation makes me want to dump my entire life savings into the company or fund!

Given the comical nature I wouldn't advise putting your life savings in the coin.

With assets under administration of $ 5.2 trillion, including managed assets of $ 2.1 trillion as of April 30, 2015, we focus on meeting the unique needs of a diverse set of customers: helping more than 24 million people invest their own life savings, nearly 20,000 businesses manage employee benefit programs, as well as providing nearly 10,000 advisory firms with technology solutions to invest their own clients» money.

While I'm not in the position of my good friend Rand, who's gone on the record saying that his life savings is $ 25,000, I was not previously wealthy.

Some people put their life savings into the plan, and even borrowed against their homes.

With assets under administration of $ 6.2 trillion, including managed assets of $ 2.3 trillion as of June 30, 2017, we focus on meeting the unique needs of a diverse set of customers: helping more than 24 million people invest their own life savings, nearly 20,000 businesses manage employee benefit programs, as well as providing nearly 10,000 advisory firms with technology solutions to invest their own clients» money.

With assets under administration of $ 6.9 trillion, including managed assets of $ 2.5 trillion as of March 31, 2018, we focus on meeting the unique needs of a diverse set of customers: helping more than 27 million people invest their own life savings, 23,000 businesses manage employee benefit programs, as well as providing more than 12,500 financial advisory firms with investment and technology solutions to invest their own clients» money.

It helps to think of a mobile wallet like a real wallet for cash, in the sense that you would never store your entire life savings in a wallet that's in your back pocket.

With assets under administration of $ 6.9 trillion, including managed assets of $ 2.5 trillion as of February 28, 2018, we focus on meeting the unique needs of a diverse set of customers: helping more than 27 million people invest their own life savings, 23,000 businesses manage employee benefit programs, as well as providing more than 12,500 financial advisory firms with investment and technology solutions to invest their own clients» money.

If you're trying to figure out where to store your life savings, traditional assets are still your safest bet.

If the results are littered with people telling horror stories of losing their life savings or finishing the programs less knowledgeable than when they started... BEWARE!

Having one's job and a portion of one's wealth in the same firm can create undue financial risk for workers, as it does for individuals and families who use some or all of their life savings to start their own businesses or otherwise invest heavily in one asset.

They've probably already been invited to a free dinner and sales pitch, and if they believe what the guy in the suit tells them, that free steak could end up costing them a chunk of their life savings.

Enron filed for bankruptcy in December 2001 — the biggest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history at the time, costing 20,000 employees their jobs and many their life savings, and losing billions for investors.

These are helpful.You are right that market failures have hit elder popluation in heavy way in past decade or so, and on top of that the fed locks interest at artificial rate low, so if we did save like our wise elder and financial advisors told us to do, we now get about nothing at all in interest return on those life savings.

In B.C., a husband - and - wife team have reportedly invested their life savings in computers imported from China in hopes of cashing in.

Investors mortgaged their homes and foolishly invested their life savings into hot stocks such as Ford and RCA.

The narrator tells a story of Sharon and Russ who put their life savings into two tiny technology stocks.

As we discussed in the personal financial column last Friday, investing one's life savings in a concentrated position is the perfect recipe for disaster.

With assets under administration of $ 6.2 trillion, including managed assets of $ 2.2 trillion as of May 31, 2017, we focus on meeting the unique needs of a diverse set of customers: helping more than 26 million people invest their own life savings, nearly 23,000 businesses manage employee benefit programs, as well as providing nearly 12,500 advisory firms with technology solutions to invest their own clients» money.

But ordinary people are investing some of their life savings in cryptocurrency.

LOS ANGELES (AP)-- A California grandmother who lost her life savings in a real estate investment scam offered by an insurance agent was awarded more than $ 15 million Wednesday in a lawsuit against MetLife and two subsidiaries, attorneys said.

Many retirees have spent their life savings to build a range, only to find that in order to do it right, there's about 80 hours per week of work to do.

Many believe the government's caution stems from past investment schemes and speculative bubbles, which threatened to drain ordinary people's life savings.

But for those people who got a lot of money and they're trusting you with their life savings at the point that they need the cash flow today, you just never outgrow the potential risk that that market could give you.

If your up for reading a HUMAN story packed with EMOTION then please read how I «INVESTED» $ 33,000 of my life savings to save my brother's life.

Do not make spur - of - the - moment decisions with your life savings.

Using Life Savings to Save a Life — This post will remind you of the HUMAN and EMOTIONAL elements that sometimes come up in personal finance.

But people flocked to Ponzi's promises of high returns, putting their life savings into the scheme.

... this book suggests concrete investing strategies to make Congress's systemic dysfunction work for you, and to hedge the risk and damage that Congress so casually and relentlessly inflicts on your life savings as represented by your portfolio and your house.»