The famously private and self-deprecating billionaire will need lots of luck to make all of it pay off.
All this leads to a really interesting question: Does it pay to be an entrepreneur?
And should U.S. Bancorp make a big acquisition, Davis has the cost-control skills to make it pay.
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But there were that many collieries going, they could have all mucked in together and made it pay.
Blackstone sold most of Equity Office Properties immediately after its 2007 buy-out, which helped it pay down debt.
Does it pay all the time, even if the contributor is, say, the president of the United States?
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And, as a rule, says ClientLogic, American firms need to outsource at least 200 jobs abroad to make it pay.
In search of a permanent way round the problem, the Fed has asked Congress to let it pay interest on bank reserves.
Not only did it pay off today, the newcomer was aboard for I'll Have Another's two wins at Santa Anita Park this year.
In a country where half the population went to college, would it pay for one person to borrow money and struggle to get a degree?
The real bet that Idle Games is making is this: that you can put time and money into a Facebook game and have it pay off.
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Rival online grocers, such as the late Webvan in California, which went for an elaborate and expensive central-warehouse system, found they could not make it pay.
Ms Warren meanwhile is facing questions about her legal work to help an industrial conglomerate fight a requirement that it pay for retired coal miners' healthcare.
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When 5% of earners pay 60% of income taxes how fat a campaign check does it pay them to write to support tea-party politicians that promise no new taxes?
It owns half of the breast-implant firm Dow Corning, which went bankrupt when plaintiff lawyers figured out how to make it pay for health problems it did not cause.
It owns half of the breast-implant firm Dow Corning, which went bankrupt when plaintiffs' lawyers figured out how to make it pay for health problems the implants did not cause.
We have to try to make it pay!
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The patent body allowed Natco to legally make and sell the low-cost version of Bayer's drug on the condition that it pay a royalty of about 6% of the net sales from the drug to the German company.
The Obama Administration, dreaming of a million electric cars on the road by 2015, loaned Ford the money to help it pay for development of hybrids and EVs, and to retool its factories to produce smaller, cleaner vehicles.
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Buying T-Mobile would help Vodafone capture a larger share of the retail market to rival O2, and although the company is in debt, new dividends from 45%-owned Verizon Wireless should help it pay that down in the near future.
When we borrow money, we promise to pay it back and we pay it back -- no matter what.
There are concerns that it will burden smaller retailers to determine how much needs to be collected, collect it, pay it to the State governments and file the various paperwork associated with the taxes.
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Those who did not pay it were subject to fines or imprisonment or both, but while most Zulus were willing to pay it, few had any cash.
What Democrats did was to effectively force Americans to pay the new Medicare tax twice: The wealthy pay it now and everyone will pay some portion of it later.
This sounds harsh, but risk is everywhere in life, and we choose daily to bear it or pay to shift it.
"I knew if I kept sticking with her and playing my shots it might pay off and it did, " Robson said after her latest triumph.
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