Sentences with phrase «story about a million»

Sorkin stacks the poker table with wonderful character actors like Bill Camp and Brian d'Arcy James, and tells horrifyingly wacky stories about the millions of dollars these men would squander in the name of ego.

MoneySense asked four former NHL stars to share personal stories about their millions: how they saved it, how they squandered it, and how they finally won the wealth game.

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I prefer business plans that demonstrate great returns for investors on exits of $ 100 million (or thereabouts), to moonshot stories about billions to be made on some crazy bionic baby food.

It is much more powerful to incorporate mini metrics and statistics along with the story, versus telling the audience about your student's three - million - dollar business.

The company prints about a million business cards a day.It is a similar story throughout the broad range of others products, including brochures, catalogues and corporate reports.Such growth has not been without its problems.Expansion has meant six complete moves in 10 years and after being at Balcatta just a year, there is a need to move again — to more than double the size of just the print operations to more than 2,000 square metres.

IN 10 years, CJ King and Co Pty Ltd has grown from a small annex behind a North Beach home to what it claims is the biggest full colour printer in the Southern Hemisphere — a $ 1,500 investment that is now turning over $ 10 million a year.With the assistance of Austrade and the WA Department of Industry and Resources (DoIR), the company is taking on the UK market, already with some success.One of the remarkable things about this success story is that it has been achieved through a consummate belief in a philosophy to use standardised, leading - edge technology and to supply just the print trade and other on - sellers.

But to do it in a purposeful and fun way that still created brand engagement but it ultimately drove to conversion — because we drove a million and a half people to our site and we were able to tell deeper product stories and get them to think about our brand in a very different way.

Live Stories can apparently attract about 20 million people on average in a 24 - hour span, which means that ad space on a 20 - million - view story can be worth about $ 400,000.

There are a million writing blogs that will go on and on about how to craft amazing stories, but is any of that (potentially good) advice backed up by research?

Take a look at Kathryn Minshew's recent bridge story about raising a $ 16 million series B round for The Muse.

I go into detail in the entire episode with specific stories, but below you can see the show notes on what I talk about with building your online business to generate millions.

The topic came to mind when I read today's story about how the salary of the CEO of Canada's biggest banks, RBC, had gone up 44 % to $ 10.9 million during his first year on the job.

Particularly when stories about trauma are discussed on every TV channel and shared on every social media platform, uncounted millions are exposed to the grief of a few.

That amounts to about 490 million untrue stories in 2017.

New York magazine made a similar case in a recent post, saying tens of millions of Facebook users «were served up or shared emotionally charged news stories about the candidates, because Facebook's sorting algorithm understood from experience that they were seeking such stories.»

That followed an August 1 story on the technology news site Motherboard, which said a cyber criminal known as Peace was selling the data of about 200 million Yahoo users but did not confirm its authenticity.

If you've been watching the news for Bitcoin - and cryptocurrency - related stories, you've likely heard about the massive heists robbing exchanges of millions — and sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars.

Could stand to learn a few things about becoming a recognizable name, a household brand or a leading expert like my clients who have appeared on the major national TV shows, in the most prestigious magazines, radio shows and Internet sites... and have helped sell millions of dollars worth of my clients» books, products, professional services, and promoted causes that have changed the world for the better, using popular media to tell their stories for over two decades?

Sensational media stories about millionaire drop - outs miss one thing: The vast majority of America's 30 million college dropouts are more likely than graduates to be unemployed, poor, and in default

It seems like every quarter there's a new story about how hackers breached a major company's cyber-defenses and stole millions of pieces of highly sensitive data.

In a perhaps apocryphal story, Adolph Hitler recalled to his General Staff in 1939 the amnesty that outside powers gave to the Turkish officials who massacred over one million Armenians nearly a quarter century earlier, quipping «Who after all is today speaking about the destruction of the Armenians?»

I heard a story about a group in LA who was trying to raise a million dollars to kick start Armageddon.

While Silverman warns viewers about being kept out of the polls, introducing herself as «your Jewish friend Sarah,» Jackson, who voiced the recent bedtime story for parents «Go the F**k to Sleep,» rhymes his warning to voters, in a video that's been seen over a million times on YouTube.

A charming story about his impact concerns the so - called Serenity Prayer in constant use by the half - million acknowledged alcoholics in Alcoholics Anonymous groups throughout the world: «O God, give us serenity to accept what can not be changed, courage to change what should be changed, and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.»

With all the recent press around the Red Cross and the «six homes built with $ 500 million» (though the story about that incident is misleading), it's no surprise that people are hesitant now to give their money to charity organizations.

It was even better if the city was mentioned on national TV, and while growing up, that occasion usually referred to a looming hurricane — or it was some creepy story about a murder, or someone taking a false identity after embezzling thousands (never millions) of dollars..

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller is about living a better story.

With their cover stories, Time, Newsweek and U.S. News cl» World Report were able simultaneously to acknowledge the belief of millions of Christians around the world while providing the «news» that the basis of Christian belief is something even Christian scholars disagree about.

At a conservative estimate the story of man's origins takes us back at least half a million years and man has been civilized for only about two per cent of this period.

It was a different story nine to about five million years ago, however, when a total of 14 different crocodile species existed and at least seven of them occupied the same area at the same time, as an international team headed by paleontologists Marcelo Sánchez and Torsten Scheyer from the University of Zurich is now able to reveal.

I could tell a million stories about this, but I'll just skip all that stuff for now, and scoot right to the goods.

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We could tell you a million stories about this week.

Spoiler Alert people, we are not getting anyone in the front striker position OTHER than what we already have, there was a story in the star yestrday about the 250 million wenger is looking to spend on the likes of Marco Ruess ect ect and I really can not believe that after all these years the Prof will change his ways and spend all that money and evern if he was going to he needs to pull his finger out as all the top players are being strongly linked with other clubs, meanwhile we wait for the brat Vardy to make up his mind when we know he is highly unlikely to come to us another summer of dissapointment for us as wenger has already stated that Giroud will lead the line next season.

I keep reading stories about Hummels but $ 40 million is a lot of money.

There are millions of conflicting stories in the media about Ozil and Alexis coming to the end of their Arsenal contracts, but as far as I am concerned there is no chance either of them will be at the Emirates next season.

They (the board) have already put out a story about 75 million for spending, too late, next year guardiola and mourinho are coming to the league.

The worst thing about the international break is that it has given bored journalists (myself included) too long to come up with a million stories about Chelsea and a bad start to the season.

This morning the New York Times had a front page story about Mayor Michael Bloomberg's attempt to seek USDA approval of a plan which would bar New York City's 1.7 million food stamp recipients from using the stamps to buy soda for two years, while a... [Continue reading]

Millions of mothers manage to work and breast - feed, but if you ask around you'll hear all sorts of stories about where women have to hide to use the breast pump, what happens to the little bottles that are left in the community refrigerator, and why it's a bad thing when an important meeting goes way too long.

What we don't often hear about is how the wine and spirit trade has also been a great British success story, with hundreds of years of proud history, powered by brilliant homegrown produce, supporting hundreds of thousands of jobs and enjoyed responsibly by millions (hard to quantify enjoyment, remember).

«The outright lies he has told about the $ 48,742 his household owes in property taxes, and the ever - changing stories about his illegal driving and $ 2,200 in unpaid parking tickets, are the behavior of a delinquent teenager, not a serious man asking to take the helm of a million - person county with a $ 1.8 billion budget.»

«The attempt to link the chairman's name to the $ 115 million Slush Fund with Fidelity Bank is not only mischievous but disingenuous handiwork of adversaries who will stop at nothing to concoct stories no matter how ridiculous about our chairman.

The identification of the South Carolina congressman, a previous unknown at the national level, was made by traditional media outlets at 9 pm; within minutes, people were looking online for news and info about him; blogs picked up the story; millions of people pushed the buzz around social networks — adding their own commentary along the way.

Giuliani's had that story written about him a million times, Christie, Andrew.

In 2011, working now with Taylor Hampton Solicitors in London, Lewis seems about to close a $ 4.7 million settlement in the Dowler case and has «more than 70 clients who believe News of the World illegally intercepted their cellphone voice mails», according to a Wall Street Journal story.

Over the weekend, the Guardian and the New York Times published stories which alleged that Facebook had not done enough to warn millions of users that data firm Cambridge Analytica had collected information about them.

He is the county executive in a county with almost 1 million people and he has a story to tell about reducing spending and the size of government and negotiating to keep big businesses in Westchester County.

From Vote Leave's absurd claims that Turkey is about to join the EU (along with their implicit threat of millions of Turkish people coming to Britain) to scare stories about hoards of foreign criminals arriving in the UK — it's been a one - way deluge of negativity about free movement.

The real estate company of Ex-Red Sox star Mo Vaughn, who makes a brief cameo in our New Yorker-esque story about Councilman Fernando Cabrera, is pledging $ 30 million to fix up two dilapidated Bronx apartment buildings.