Sentences with phrase «who got rich»

Another pair of investors who got rich off of Facebook first and then expanded their wealth with cryptocurrency, the Winklevoss twins — Cameron and Tyler — have been two of the most vocal supporters of Bitcoin and have done everything in their power to capitalize off the cryptocurrency.

Just goes to show that environmentalists aren't people who sincerely want to help the environment, but rather the secular equivalent of the corrupt Catholic priests of medieval times, who got rich by selling indulgences.

Those who got rich by burning fossil fuels have taken up the available atmospheric space for carbon pollution, leaving little for the rest.

There are two kinds of Wall Street Journal readers; those who don't give a damn about the cost of energy, and those who got rich by giving a damn about every single cent they ever spent.

Marginal elite who got rich.

Those who got rich quick are far less likely to hold onto their money than those who got rich slowly.

How could it be so different for other people who got rich, and not for you?

The same man who got rich off of petroleum was doing just fine with whale oil.

We are studying the Bronze Age and there is a mention of a ghost named Hagar who got rich during the Bronze Age in Episode 2 of the Ghost, The Rat, and Me series.

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Penny has a tendency for blurting out everything she's thinking — in a much sweeter way than Hilary (who got rich by writing self - help books about her family); Alice is frustrated because she and Paul have been trying to have children (she's also Judd's ex-girlfriend) and Horry remains sweetly innocent because of a brain injury from a car accident (from which Wendy emerged comparatively) unscathed, and Tracy loves Philip but is completely aware that it won't end well.

(Not that there aren't ideas to be found here — that casino is loaded with people who got rich off the arms trade, and Finn is taken aback to discover that the same merchants who sell TIE fighters to the First Order are also profiting off X-wings for the rebels.

Americans love oil, whether we're using it to lubricate our car engines, to fry our food, or to justify our military operations, but our favorite thing about oil is when somebody makes a TV show about people who got rich off of the stuff.

While Heppner said that should be Phillips «should be apologizing — not running for the State Senate,» McKenna shot back that Haber's «attack is absurd because, by contrast, he is a high - risk trader who got rich by risking other people's money, and has openly bragged about profiting from market volatility.»

Cohen is a slumlord who got rich while jeopardizing the lives and safety of children and seniors.»

The ad ends with this kicker: «Carl Paladino, a welfare king who got rich by milking New York taxpayers.

Your - Mom - goes - to - College - Your argument would actually have some force if it were not for all the authors, speakers, artists, musicians, and others who got rich from selling religion to the world.

At the end there's a few who got rich and the rest gets played for suckers.

Denton, a refugee from the Financial Times who got rich selling one of the very first truly digital news entities (known as Moreover), often seemed cavalier about his approach to journalism.

Show me the young twenty - something who got rich clipping coupons.

Australia's prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, who got rich as a technology investor, has called for an «ideas boom» to alleviate the pain of the resource bust.

In the mainframe era, guess who got rich from the saying, «Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM.»

«Tokenaires» (people who got rich off token sales) hired private bankers, these bankers had other clients, and it cascaded outwards from there.

«We have a housing shortage, and a large group of people who don't want more housing — often people who already have secure housing, and who get richer if there is a shortage,» says Daniel Oleksiuk, a member of Abundant Housing Vancouver, an organization that advocates for changing zoning practices to build more multi-unit housing.

Stop listening to Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and others who get rich peddling lies and nonsense to millions who can't discern they are lies.

So among the rising stars of the GOP are a radio host who gets rich being angry, a lizard who's been out of office for a decade, a rich Mormon with nothing better to do than aim for 2012 three months into 2009, and Sarah Palin.

«The people of Syracuse are tired of the false promise of trickle - down development with developers who get rich while our people struggle.

We believe that the market based reformers are practicing a kind of crude social Darwinism — treating education as a commodity to be bought and sold, creating a hierarchy of winners (the elite who get a rich curriculum of questioning) and losers (the oppressed classes, the Black and Brown and immigrant and low - income children who need to be taught passivity and compliance).

There are people who get rich quickly.

There are people who get rich by just being the «middle - man» on these funds: from the brokerage fees, front - loaded sales fees (commissions), kickbacks, advertisers, and all the other stuff.

It attracts con men and others who get rich off tax dollars while supplying nothing of value.

The only people who get rich quick are scamming someone.

Not exact matches

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

There are no get rich schemes,» says Tarkenton, who hosts a radio show for small - business owners on Sirius XM Radio.

Martin Lewis, who founded consumer website MoneySavingExpert.com, said the ads were by scammers running «get rich quick» schemes, with titles such as «Bitcoin code» or «Cloud trader.»

Still some people do beat those odds — Steve Jobs is one prominent example of someone who got very rich indeed off products he patented.

The people who have accumulated fabulous fortunes tend to keep the habits that got them rich in the first place.

Bill McQuillen, a reporter who left in 2012, puts it another way: «I used to say my job at Bloomberg was to help rich people get richer.»

«I don't know anyone who had gotten rich shorting China,» said Loeb, mentioning Chanos.

Hundreds of gold medals are awarded during every Olympic games, and it's inevitable that some athletes — who, more often than not, won't get rich from their sport — wind up selling them.

The richest earners, or the top 0.1 percent, those who make $ 5 million or more a year, would get an average tax cut of $ 250,000 — representing a tax cut of 2.5 percent.

Fortune eavesdrops on judges» deliberations as they hash out who gets the oversize checks at the world's richest business plan competition.

The server investigation put such political strain on the FBI in large part because of the environment of ethics stories that surrounded it — the business and philanthropic empire that arose out of and was hopelessly intertwined with the Clinton political operation, the high - dollar paid speeches, the political aides who were somehow getting so rich off this enterprise that one of them just bought David Rockefeller's mansion.

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The move to 100 % of the Montney project is a major coup for Calima that will be sure to raise its profile with the oil and gas heavyweights of North America who are eager to get a share of the action in the liquids - rich basin.

For every one person who (temporarily, at least) gets rich, there must necessarily be thousands or millions more who lose money.

Ellison is one of the world's richest men who got that way by founding and running Oracle, a company that makes a database that stores massive amount of information.

Hackers who quietly commandeer thousands of poorly - secured connected devices — such as «smart» TVs and thermostats — can get rich by using them to mine cryptocurrency.

The classic rags - to - riches tale of an enterprising dreamer who works all hours to build her dream business is part of what makes start - up life such a compelling idea, and young, growing businesses get plenty of media mileage out of their human interest aspects, from working out of garages to quirky founders.

«I have a lot of people who will come to me, and they just want to get rich fast....