Sentences with phrase «avoiding stupidity»

These tips include raising rates now, asking tough questions about whether it's wise to keep adding partners to the firm, improving client service, learning to pitch to potential women clients and generally avoiding stupidity.

It's just avoiding stupidity.»

One alternative use of a lexicon is applying legendary investor Charlie Munger's advice that it's better to first «avoid stupidity» than to pursue brilliance — in other words, how might a lexicon help your team avoid making mistakes?

The smartest people in the world use mental models to make intelligent decisions, avoid stupidity, and increase productivity.

Exposed to air and sunlight, humidity and bacteria it quickly is reduced to nutrients and reintroduced into the ecology from which it came, ultimately to return to us in indirect but unmistakable ways that we as supposedly intelligent beings need to recognize if we wish to avoid the stupidity that comes from self inflicted blindness... or we'll really be stepping in it.

Not exact matches

I hope you apply the same judgment to the stupidity of Jews who keep kosher and Catholics who avoid meat on Fridays...

With much more decent offerings currently out there («Gravity,» «Rush,» «Captain Phillips «-RRB-, why not avoid this over-the-top stupidity and get a little more bang for your hard - earned buck?

While avoiding the mind - numbing sensory and stupidity overload that the Jolie movies embraced, this reboot still maintains a healthy dose of unrealism and cheese.

For example, if you pay 30 % less than the intrinsic value of an asset based on conservative calculations that bargain is a cushion that can help avoid mistakes caused by stupidity.

Similarly, a basic understanding of the specific contours of the stupidity of the tax code can help you avoid meaningless extra payments to the government and keep more of your income.

To avoid this sort of stupidity, the Lynn Painter - Stainers Prize — now holding its third exhibition at Painters» Hall — confines itself to «creative representational painting» displaying «the skill of draughtsmanship».

Vaughan Pratt — Your latest long rambling point - avoiding response is nothing but an exercise in obdurate stupidity.

Most of the folks posting here are knowledgeable enough to avoid that kind of egregious error, so it is good to be cautious before accusing them of stupidity.

The fact (if it is one) that the consequences at Fukushima are more due to operator stupidity than faulty design, strengthens the anti-nuclear case: poor design we can perhaps avoid, operator stupidity we can't.