Why overpay for what someone else has built when you can control your own destiny?
Like many before it, Preussag would rather overpay than be leapfrogged by an arch-rival.
Could that have made Zuckerberg overpay for a company with 13 employees and no revenue to date?
If the market is willing to overpay for insurance, we would like to take advantage of that.
It seems that investors are so captivated with big, fast-growing companies like Google that they overpay for them.
Among the reasons, say experts, is that investors too often buy in a boom and overpay for stocks.
Most longtime collectors say they would rather walk away than overpay for art.
That means hunting younger targets while his better-capitalized competitors duke it out (and potentially overpay) for larger, more developed companies.
They never overpay for players or sign high-profile free agents and rely on scouting and the draft to put together teams.
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Did it also overpay for other prime realty before it went public?
That may be too rich for Kraft's boss, Irene Rosenfeld, who has said that she is determined not to overpay for Cadbury.
This leaves us with a curious problem: we overpay for health care, but we underpay the people we expect to fix it.
But really, does it make sense to overpay for a 31-year-old with a weight problem when the money could be invested better elsewhere?
He wanted to force his customers to overpay for the uniqueness of his products and the closed loop he constructed to use them.
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Both rationales fall in line with the Mets' long-term plan, which revolves around building for 2014 and refusing to overpay for high-price free agents.
If the sales representatives talk up the charity too much, potential customers might think they are being asked to overpay or sacrifice quality for the greater good.
Injuries and controversies aside, the market can no longer sustain deals that approach a decade in length and grossly overpay diminishing skills by almost double.
In Burgundy, it is still possible to overpay for mediocre wine.
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Still, Winnick insists he didn't overpay for that year of work.
Fund managers are thus likely to be careful not to overpay brokers, they say, even if it is other people's money that they are spending.
Or you sell something on Craigslist, and the buyer asks if she can overpay by money order and have you refund the difference in cash.
The Phillies have been overpaying the pitchers we wanted to overpay.
Most befuddling, though, is why NHL general managers continue to overpay for goaltending, one of the most inconsistent positions and riskiest investments in professional sports.
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Some saw this as bad news but it was a boon, says Larry Haverty of GAMCO, an investment firm, because News Corp was about to overpay.
Because when McClendon and his infamous Founders Well Particpation Program are gone there will no longer be an incentive for the company to egregiously overpay for acreage.
Some have actually argued that big pharma's ailments will be good for small biotechs, because big drug companies will be more likely to overpay for experimental medicines.
When Carter's antagonism is coupled with Sadat's romantic pledges of everlasting peace and brotherhood, it is easy to understand why Begin agreed to overpay for a ceasefire.
But when I think of the importance of teaching in this country, when I think about the heroism demonstrated in Oklahoma, I find it impossible to overpay teachers.
It is possible to overpay for an exchange-traded fund (ETF).
Another economic principle: Do not overpay for fast depreciating assets.
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