She sold it and used the money to pay her way through business school in Malibu.
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She sold it for prices far below asking prices on small one-bedroom apartments now.
If stock rises instead, however, the investor could have to buy it back at a higher price than he or she sold it for, resulting in a loss.
The 80-year-old is the founder member of the Postcard Club of Great Britain, amassing a collection of 95, 000 over 50 years before she sold most of it off a few years ago.
She sold this territory because it was being wasted.
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Her father bought her one when she was 12, but sold it without warning a few months later.
"It is disheartening to know that you invest in your children's education and come to find out that your investment isn't what they sold it as, " she says.
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Because, she contends, art will always be sold where it's likely to get the best price.
Many others, she said, would have kept the ring, or sold it.
While it was self published and sold modestly, she received endorsements and reviews from top bridge players, professional associations and even pop culture mavens.
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He or she believes that he creates a good or service that is sold for more than it costs to make it, and if an entrepreneur thinks he can do that, he creates a job.
"It could work out well - if Wales is sold well, " she added.
She sold the second location of her video store, stopped using her credit cards and decided it was time to get help.
She was the head of marketing at an Atlanta software firm called XcelleNet when it was sold to Sterling Commerce in July 1998.
Though she said she was initially nervous about how the comeback residency would be received, it's sold out for each of its first 24 performances.
Her aunt would tell her about how she kneaded yellow dye that was sold in small capsules alongside packs of opaque, colorless margarine into the spread before serving it.
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