Sentences with phrase «story about an investor»

A quick Google search yields hundreds more stories about investors who made their fortunes in the housing industry.

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There's the story about how Ben Horowitz, a Rap Genius investor, hosted the cofounders for dinner and invited the rapper Nas and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to join them.

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.

Revenues are off the historic high by about 40 percent and losses have largely been the quarterly story to investors.

But life strategist Tony Robbins says that Mayweather's life story also teaches regular investors an important lesson about wealth and income.

Damore's memo followed a wave of recent stories in which women in tech have gone public about the sexual harassment they've experienced, be it from co-workers, bosses, or investors.

While my other investments were doing well, I couldn't tell a story about being a long - term investor who sits on boards eight years until an IPO.

Mr. Case said he would only succeed in changing the way investors think about the rest of the country if he can produce significant financial success stories.

Private equity investors hoping to capitalize on the Asia - Pacific region's robust growth story have plenty to feel good about.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

When reading what other investors think about oil companies, you get scary stories, gloomy Continue reading →

Investor relations and governance teams working on and around AGMs this proxy season should be paying particular attention to the stories their companies are telling about strategy, who is on the board and ESG - related efforts, according to new research.

On today's show we talk about: Recent market volatility What held up well (basically nothing) Stories we tell Who to blame How noobwhale investors will react to a bear market Non-correlated strategies Where hedge fund fees go Listen here: A close look at where the money flows suggests a more complicated story Barry with ex-CIA...

That's from Franklin Foer's story about the decline of the Democrats and the rise of populism; on Twitter, Matt Yglesias called the bit about institutional investors «the sleeper issue of our time.»

On June 30, star investor Chris Sacca wrote on Medium that he took some personal responsibility for «the unrelenting, day - to - day culture of dismissiveness that creates a continually bleak environment for women and other underrepresented groups» in Silicon Valley (shortly before allegations of his own sexual misconduct emerged in the same piece that broke the story about McClure).

The focus of most of the stories is about the stock tanking, the investors, the lenders that stand to lose, etc. etc..

Presumably not all the investors who are quoted constantly in stories about the liquidity illusion, right?

BUILDING ON BEDROCK: What Sam Walton, Walt Disney, and Other Great Self - Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Building Valuable Companies For founders and investors — based upon research, and told through the stories of famous and not - so - famous American entrepreneurs.

Your ideas might be big, however your ability to present all that information in a coherent «story» that grabs the attention of the investors, along with informing them about the critical information they need to know to make their decision is the most crucial element in the startup journey.

Private equity investors hoping to capitalize on the Asia - Pacific region's robust long - term growth story have plenty to feel good about.

With easy growth behind us and waves of uncertainty coming from all sides, investors and businesses seem less assured than before about the prospects of the Canadian growth story.

Certainly, investors hear alarming investment nightmare stories about people who held a large proportion of their personal wealth in their employer's stock and lost everything.3 4 While your client may think, «I know this company because I work here,» that thinking can get them into trouble — think WorldCom and Lehman Brothers.

Countless articles and books recount the success stories of legendary value investors, yet there is very little information about:

Of course, Guy gas written about his personal story, but it resonated so much with me that I have kept this book in my must - read book advisory list for any budding value investor.

While this is a longer term story about decades - long trends in the economy, it does lead to some implications for investors in the shorter term.

The story noted that Vance's former employer, Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello PC, was one of the firms involved on the defense side of the potential case, which revolved around allegations that investors were misled about the project and its finances.

Growth projections and investor activities tell a similar story about the regenerative medicine industry's promise (Figure 1).

There are many stories, of course, about cases in which startups» partnerships with publishers (let alone investors) haven't gone as was wanted.

But when I read the story about them, and other «mom and pop» investors rushing to jump back into the booming stock market, a few words crossed my mind.

Here's a great story from investor Jay Schembs about Adams Golf Inc (NASDAQ: ADGF), which will be familiar to anyone who has spent some time sifting through net net screens for the last few ye...

«I've heard hero stories about people making huge profits buying and flipping tax sales properties,» says Michael Currie, owner of the Fort Nova Group, a real estate investment and education company based out of Nova Scotia, and an experienced landlord and real estate investor.

I'm not sure we'll ever know the full story behind the madness of May 6, and for long - term investors it's probably not worth fretting about.

The story about Mecham opens with him in a conference room in New York City surrounded by potential investors who are peppering him with questions, trying to gauge his» sophistication.»

After just about three years and close to 150 weekly stories of DIY investor reactions on Twitter, this is the last edition of the tweets of the week in the current format.

In the book Guy tells his story about how he changed his way of life, becoming a value investor and managing partner of the Aquamarine Capital working out of Zurich, Switzerland.

In keeping with our penchant for stories about idiosyncratic investors who trade in odd securities found off the beaten track, we bring you perhaps the best unknown activist investment of 2009.

On today's show we talk about: Recent market volatility What held up well (basically nothing) Stories we tell Who to blame How noobwhale investors will react to a bear market Non-correlated strategies Where hedge fund fees go Listen here: A close look at where the money flows suggests a more complicated story Barry with ex-CIA...

I will keep it short, but there were several new funds of interest that launched this month, most notably a long / short equity fund from Longboard, which we wrote about in a story titled Longboard Launches Second Alternative Mutual Fund and two new hedge fund replication ETFs from IndexIQ, both of which are detailed in New ETFs Allow Investors to Build their Own Hedge Fund Strategies.

Our story on online trading warns about the excesses that can and do occur when some investors make a heavy commitment to online trading and especially day trading.

And, as investors continue to get excited about the crytopcurrency / blockchain and marijuana legalization stories, companies will almost inevitably come to the public markets in these sectors which in turn, will draw investors interested in capitalizing on these stories into the market.

Ask legendary investor John Rogers Jr. about his biggest challenges, and the story he tells is about selling stocks, not buying them.

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It is a better story to talk about how much money these endowments have lost rather than review or mention a slightly academic book (with lots of data and tables) that would have shielded investors from the bear markets.

Each chapter tells a different story about a characteristic of deep value investing, seeking to demonstrate a genuinely counterintuitive insight.Through these stories, it explores several ideas demonstrating that deeply undervalued stocks provide an enormous tail wind to investors, generating outsized returns whether they are subject to activist attention or not.

I've told this story before, but in late 1999, I was talking with my mother (a very good self - taught investor), she told me about many of my cousins who were speculating in tech stocks.

While tabloids still chew this story over, the investors wait for their money - back, Personal Money Service encourages people to be cautious about all kinds of financial operations, schemes, and investments.

It seems you guys like stories about idiosyncratic investors who trade in odd securities found off the beaten track.

And to an investor focused on value investing in the late 1990s, there were plenty of illogical arguments to be found, whether it was a focus on eyeballs (webpage views) over profits, or any other metric that left one reminded of the story about a business losing money on every sale, but making it up on volume.

And investors weren't shy about jumping ship... the One51 share price chart tells a painful story:

I'm hounding management about that — they are doing a marvelous job, but need to spend a lot more time on investor relations & getting the story out there