The country has an abundance of a resource that is scarce elsewhere: good, cheap engineers (it takes 1, 000 or so to run a big chip plant).
Borrowing a strategy familiar to razormakers and electronics firms alike, Oshima figures he'll lure customers with good, cheap equipment, and earn his keep from add-on goods and services.
The effect of falling for the old bird-in-the-bush gambit was predictable (and predicted): They are never as good, cheap or readily available as we are told they will be.
But with good assets dirt cheap, McCaw can spring for a couple of aspirin.
Lost in the emotions is the fact that a good dose of cheap labor sure would be convenient in the scheme of global competition.
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It is no secret that good education comes cheap to Canadians.
It has created energy around a sleeping city best known for being a favorite retirement destination due to its good weather, cheap living and lack of a state income tax.
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That was sort of the principles that Benjamin Graham taught, meaning that cheap is good.
That's when value types swoop in, buying a good stock on the cheap and waiting for a rebound.
So what we're trying to do is statistically find a group of companies that on average are cheap and good.
" He adds: "'Cheap but good-quality' is fine for market share, but a premium brand is good for the bottom line.
So I think really, like I said, it's really best as an insurance bet, to take a group of stocks that in general are cheap and good and invest that way.
Seems awfully volatile, but when one looks at some other fundamental investment yardsticks, Chevron begins to look like a good company at a cheap price, the sort of thing YCharts aims to ferret out.
We also have something which is self-managed, which is if you don't want us to do it, or you have opinions, this really started out as a benevolent brokerage firm, was my concept, where I sort of say you can't buy on margin, you have to buy at least 20 or 30 stocks, but you can only pick from this pre-approved list: companies that rank high as cheap and good.
Low taxes, cheap labor, good schools and an aggressive scheme to attract foreign investments.
Let the chimps chatter while we focus on buying cheap stocks of good firms.
That looks good, the idea of cheap plentiful food, but there is also an ugliness to it.
They still enjoy a good life, helped by cheap domestic help and first-class private medical care and schools.
Another is that stocks this cheap are often cheap for a good reason.
Teddy should get together with Cruise's Yoo-hoo drinking lawyer in "A Few Good Men" and compare cheap scene-stealing notes.
And these principles, value investing, for instance, buying cheap, buying good, works in all these countries, according to their research.
Lefsetz disagrees, saying that the industry needs to either legitimize file-sharing or create something "just as good" that is also cheap.
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The Cheap Revolution is good for China and India as well as newer, clever companies in the West, such as Google, Skype and Craigslist.
It makes no more sense to worry about whether her character is good for women than it would for to worry about whether cheap, plotting, manipulative George Costanza in Seinfeld was good for men.
He recommends Ford as a good buy because the company is cheap and it has avoided bankruptcy.
Because the business is still too good and the stock is incredibly cheap.
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