Sentences with phrase «do foolish»

The company's concern is that, given the number of employees that it employs, some of those employees may do foolish things, (although maybe not as foolish as the ThyssenKrupp employee,) and even if those foolish things are done on their own time, by being associated with the brand the employee may do harm.

In Tatton, only one of the three facta (that of the Ontario Crown) submitted to the court referred to scientific studies — and only as a additional support for the claim that «[i] t is well known that many people do foolish and dangerous things when drinking.»

Favorite quote: «You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.»

Don't ask them to do foolish things.

It only becomes gambling when you don't follow the rules and do foolish things, like cost averaging down on losing positions and risking too much money too soon.

I understand that there are people who aren't very bright, and even bright people do foolish and impulsive things.

For the kids, it's not to do foolish things out of sheer rebellion, because your parents are out to help you and keep you from harm's way.

There are some wistful glances and the notion that people do foolish things.

I am a big man with a big heart, i wish i was big somewhere else but that is another story.I can be very romantic and i can also be a complete spanner.My mum described it best by saying «You are not a fool, but you do foolish things».

But we shouldn't be surprised when smart people do foolish things.

Instead, you should be prepared to cut corners, offer bribes or do some foolish things before you get along.

So you think the kind thing would be for us to sit back and let more and more babies die because women get encouraged by idiots on the internet to do foolish things.

I can't remember the last time Ox doesn't do some foolish thing that will result to a goal against arsenal, dude is just terrible!

«All of us do foolish things sometime, but I'm not a fool,» Mayweather said.

The handful of religious zealots that do foolish things are far outnumbered by people who are inspired by their Faith.

Too often, we do foolish things, like speak before we think, form ideas we have little or no evidence to support, fail to consider other thoughts or opinions and assume we're always right.

They shout «Allah» with evil in their hearts and fool you into doing foolish things that give them power and money.

They are scared of Amazon, and keep running around doing foolish things because of it.

[26] Ormiston did a foolish thing.

Not exact matches

It would be foolish to look at Amazon and think that design does not matter.

In other words: don't do anything foolish, just stand aside and let everyone else implode as their own reliance on ever - expanding credit and the U.S. dollar hegemony brings them to their knees.

Ponies are hard to come by in these strange times, and you don't want to seem foolish for looking.

But regardless of your race or that of the person you're speaking with, don't be afraid or too proud to look foolish to ask questions about things you don't know — especially when someone says something that needs further discussion.

It's equally foolish to try to do something on the cheap that you shouldn't do at all.

It would be foolish for Quebecor to do nothing in the face of such expectations, especially when the government is hell - bent on generating more wireless competition.

Ask yourself, do I believe in this idea and am I willing to appear foolish by telling others?

Columbia Business School professors have even written that dumb is the new smart, citing a willingness to admit what you don't understand and appear foolish as a highly undervalued business skill in this post financial crisis world.

Still, the inclusion of dramatic actors such as Cruise and Kidman on the overpaid list does lend credence to the fact that paying an actor large amounts of money to star in a movie is pretty risky, if not foolish.

«Like most philosophy majors, I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew it would be downright foolish to miss the chance to help set up a company at the ground level,» he said in an online blog post about his beginnings in finance.

Of course, this doesn't mean starting your own business without doing the proper research — that would be foolish.

«The salesperson doesn't have all the answers,» says Manco's Tom Corbo, «and is foolish to pretend to.

However, if you want to build respect, and if you want to have the feeling of accomplishment, don't be penny wise and dollar foolish.

Don't be penny-wise and pound - foolish: Make sure you are making the right investments in the right place and you will see your business flourish.

Over a hard drum beat, B.I.G. explains his existential woes, while in lower tones, in the background, you continually hear Combs urging him not to do anything foolish.

«Advances in areas ranging from drones to satellites to autonomous vehicles all have implications in the defense industry, and it would be foolish to think that any single organization has the talent and expertise to do all of these things well.»

«I don't mind looking foolish but it's just that I'm so bad at singing,» Schwarzenegger told Business Insider.

«A Roth conversion might be a foolish thing to do if you plan on leaving the high - taxed state of your working years to retire in a state that levies no income taxes.»

But a Roth conversion might be a foolish thing to do if you plan on leaving the high - taxed state of your working years to retire in a state that levies no income taxes.

Or doing anything foolish on Vancouver's Capilano Suspension Bridge.

Having a plan in place beforehand greatly reduces the chances that you'll do something foolish.

Not that Grantham is actually bullish about this prospect, noting instead that it can be useful for prudent investors to imagine future pain «so that they can more easily process it and be less likely to do something foolish.»

The restrictions are so narrow and the adverse result if you run afoul of them so punitive (a 100 % penalty tax on the value of the shares and on any income from reinvested income) that only the truly foolish would hold private company shares in their TFSA (I'm sure some do, but they're playing with fire).

I proceeded to do what every foolish 23 year old would do and blow it on things!

Like most philosophy majors, I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew it would be downright foolish to miss the chance to help set up a new company at the ground level.

Well, don't I feel foolish (lowercase «f»).

«I always tell them [my family] that the second most foolish thing they could do right now is to possess an volume of bitcoins they can't means to remove and the most foolish thing they could do would be to not possess any.

«As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be too many people doing the same thing.»

A foolish risk is going into business without a comprehensive written business plan, or without a love and passion for what you want to do.

Think about it this way — if the London Fire Brigade offered their free fire training lessons to Kate Winslet a few hours after another group did the exact same thing, they'd look foolish and behind the times, not to mention their effort would be wasted.

Investing your money on stocks without knowledge of what you are doing is simply foolish, even if you make some money by luck, you will definitely lose it because luck can't carry you far in the stock market.