Sentences with phrase «relatively little business»

For instance, I do relatively little business in water turtles.

BDT has done relatively little business with Berkshire Hathaway in its five years of existence, and to the extent that Berkshire makes minority investments, BDT is something of a competitor now.

Not exact matches

But small businesses mean small investments, and corporate Canada contributes relatively little of total spending on research conducted at Canada's post-secondary institutions:

While getting your page verified as a local business is relatively straightforward, receiving that coveted blue badge can be a little trickier.

It's marketed as being an easy way to become a business owner — it takes relatively little startup capital, etc. — but Rose knows more people who have been burned by this investment strategy than people who have had a positive outcome.

This may seem a little easier to do in a game that tracks at - bats and hits and runs than in your industry, but every business needs to develop effective and relatively frictionless ways to keep score for everyone's benefit and also to establish and implement these criteria at every level and for everyone in the business.

The tools required to make a business are available to everyone for relatively little or no cost: website creation, advertising and marketing education, online programs that teach you how to code within a relatively short amount of time and platforms that help you run your business more smoothly.

The company would involve little to no overhead, a relatively small startup cost (only in getting the name out there, which would be a non issue with some business connections), and consequently would have the opportunity to be cashflow even in an extraordinarily short amount of time.

The lending will also involve Goldman in a relatively risky business in which it has little experience, dealing with ordinary borrowers with limited financial cushions.

You can get into a business that is relatively inexpensive to start — as little as $ 3,000 for a cart.

The Philly Fed's Aruoba - Diebold - Scotti Business Conditions Index (hereafter the ADS index) is a fascinating but relatively little known real - time indicator of business conditions for the U.S. economy, not just the Third Federal Reserve District, which covers eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and DBusiness Conditions Index (hereafter the ADS index) is a fascinating but relatively little known real - time indicator of business conditions for the U.S. economy, not just the Third Federal Reserve District, which covers eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Dbusiness conditions for the U.S. economy, not just the Third Federal Reserve District, which covers eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware.

The business itself requires relatively little oversight, with the owner focusing on scale from the very start.

But just like we had relatively little history of large - cap stocks that weren't large businesses, we have relatively little history of bond yields being so close to zero.

They spent an apprenticeship period making relatively little money trying to get into the business.

«However, under the relatively new trading structure of a «self - employed umbrella», there is little room for doubt that the tests are being distorted and the incidence of «self - employment» is growing amongst workers who are very unlikely to be in business on their own account.

Every rebellion needs a leader and this interlude with relatively little violent action but a building toward climax makes the case for tending to business.

The technology for self - publishing has so improved that anyone can enter the book production business at relatively little cost 4.

For example, the Retail Trade sector has little trouble with red tape but faces strong competition from large, established businesses, while Real Estate and Rental and Leasing companies have high startup costs but are relatively easy to operate without employees.

Also, I'd probably pay a little more for a stable business — but that's on average reflecting some stable businesses deserve exactly the multiples you highlight, and even lower, but others may be relatively low growth but have v dependable revenue / profit streams which may deserve a significant / premium multiple (annuity - type business).

Unfortunately, the first type of business is very hard to find: Most high - return businesses need relatively little capital.

And yet we are being told we must subsidize these behemoths — which produce relatively little power — at huge costs to families, businesses, hospitals, factories and other energy consumers.

I'll let you do the maths, but it looks relatively expensive to me if you are targeting the director / family business type market — not because the amount of work you'd have to generate would be that great to make it pay, but because of the lack of relationship between the marketing expenditure and the «law firm choosing» process (the key metric about which there seems to be little credible research applicable to this market).

Since this number is relatively high, you're likely to pay a little more than average for a business insurance policy.

If so, you can make a decent amount of money on this side business idea with relatively little work on your part (most of the time).

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.