Sentences with phrase «stacked against the individual»

The odds are stacked against any individual stock picker trying to build long - term wealth.

But the real estate game seems stacked against the individual investor.

In his popular book, Money, Master the Game, self help guru Tony Robbins concludes, in a nutshell, that the cards are stacked against the individual investor, and this applies even to the relatively sophisticated.

It may look as if they are because they deal with judicial review cases against the federal government, but these are cases in which the deck is always stacked against the individual.»

Not exact matches

Instead of measuring employees» performance against a static list of criteria, they are graded on a curve — i.e. individual performance is evaluated on how it stacks up against everyone else's.

You hear people complain that the deck is stacked against the small individual investor.

In a statement issued by Warren she said that many political pundits believed «the deck was stacked against her,» and Warren, who is running for a second term, says that individual members of city committee «stood up for what was right and stood with me even when party bosses tried to push a different outcome.»

Now, I'll admit that people from disadvantaged backgrounds have the odds stacked against them, as do individuals with abusive parents or mental and physical handicaps.

The OECD Test for Schools is an annual, school - based version of PISA, that provides individual schools with information on how their fifteen - year - olds stack up against countries worldwide in reading, mathematics, and science.

The rules of the market can make pupil numbers and therefore income so unpredictable for individual schools that it undermines their staffing and curriculum stability and stacks the odds for success against them.

Many individuals grow up in homes that are dysfunctional, neighborhoods that are violent, environments that seem to starve their minds, yet somehow they manage to salvage their minds, to discover some ways of learning and succeeding despite biographical odds that are so stacked against them.

The deck is heavily stacked against you, whether you try to pick individual stocks yourself or you attempt to pick the «very best» fund managers and pay their fees.

See how individual skills stack up against friends and the rest of the world on the leaderboard.

Formed from twenty - nine individual components stacked against one another, the whole resembles a row of books, or an archive of casts.

You simply need to work with individuals that give you the proper perspective and data on how your deal stacks up against comparables.