Sentences with phrase «than mediocre results»

I've seen fund sales go through the roof as a fund's return numbers back on to a disastrous and often historic low point in the fund's history with little more than mediocre results at the front end.

If you submit your book to a mediocre literary agency, you can't expect anything more than mediocre results.

What's more, those that fear being «caught» may avoid taking risks that could reveal their perceived inadequacies, or they'll settle for less, not believing they deserve better than mediocre results, mediocre talent or average opportunities.

Not exact matches

Indeed, for some, whether the result is good, bad or mediocre is less important than that they had an important role in bringing it about.

Board Game Equivalent: Not a board game, but you remember in P.E. in elementary school, when about 100 kids held onto the parachute and had to work together to get it to do something, and the result was still entirely mediocre and less than fulfilling?

There is no better example than Patrick of what becomes of a driver when the ballyhoo of their arrival fades amid a succession of mediocre results.

If children are constantly praised for minimal effort or mediocre results, the words of praise become the ultimate goal, rather than the desire to learn and improve.

A mediocre workout routine and a committed and positive attitude will get you much BETTER results, than a great routine done half - assed and inadequately.

That's more than twenty - five times the price for mediocre coaching, and probably mediocre results.

Rather than reflect the panicky, competitive rush that results in all these half - thought, half - finished, fairly expensive and certainly mediocre series, Westworld demonstrates the proper way to spend a lot of time and money in a meticulous fashion.

After all, you can't have a mediocre storyline, some less than effective acting, and an underwhelming result from your producer and director and not feel a little dissatisfied.

The end result, in many cases, is a system that doesn't allow itself to view great teachers any differently than it does mediocre teachers.

More than 1,000 schools across the country received SIG grants and researchers found mediocre results.

While all of the above approaches to cover design will work, more often than not the result is a mediocre cover that just doesn't communicate well with potential readers.

I have used other companies before with mediocre results but will never use anyone other than Carson Dunlop.

One of Russel Kinnel's sharper lines of late was, «New funds tend to be mediocre because fund companies make them that way» («New Funds Generate More Excitement Than Results,» 10/16/14).

Profitability was recognized by the father of value investing Benjamin Graham in 1928 as a predominant driver of stock returns: It is undoubtedly better to concentrate on one stock that you know is going to prove highly profitable, rather than dilute your results to a mediocre figure, merely for diversifications sake.

Trying to work with more than a couple asset classes will dilute their attention and may result in mediocre performance.

I have used other companies before with mediocre results but will never use anyone other than Carson Dunlop.