Sentences with phrase «timing is a fools»

Trying to maximize both at the same time is a fool's errand.

He has already apologized for his error, but the second time we are the fools.

It's true that projecting draft results can often times be a fool's errand, but oddsmakers do something that NBA Draft experts simply don't — put their money where their mouth is.

Trying to maintain a consistently high return on equity [ROE] over a long period of time is a fools bargain and I'll use an anecdote from a company I know well, AIG.

The idea that market timing is a fools game is far beyond the truth.

Not exact matches

He also wrote that his fellow libertarians were on a «fool's errand» trying to achieve their ends through political means: «In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms — from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so - called «social democracy.»»

I realize that they're a necessary evil, but you need to be very careful that you're not saying things or doing things (even worse) to «prove» something to these people because (a) it's never enough to satisfy them in any case and they won't believe you anyway; and (b) it's a fool's errand to waste your time trying to impress people whose livelihood is much more about finding the warts and shortcomings in your story than in celebrating your successes.

To loosely paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, «you can fool some of the people some of the time...» The point is that if you have multiple people interview a candidate multiple times, it's very difficult for a candidate to fool everyone.

Trying to time these shifts is a fool's errand.

These «little» leaders who are drinking their own Kool - Aid and who think you can fool all of the people at least some of the time (while you're trying to figure things out) are on their way to a rude awakening and an abrupt collision.

Or you could think of it as a version of the greater fool theory — you want to be sure there's at least one bigger sucker than you willing to buy your goodies when you finally get over your growing greed and decide that it's time to go.

Trying to time the market is a fool's errand.

Switzerland and Spain are especially strong markets, with Spain generating four times as much revenue as the U.K. Indeed, Biderman's hypothesis is that the site's commercial appeal seems to be counter-cyclical: the worse a country's economy, the more its residents seem to want to fool around.

But don't let its focus on part — time students fool you into thinking the school isn't produce strong teams.

The next time you decide to make what seems like a radical change, don't fool yourself into believing you're being brave and bold.

If you're not careful, sometimes simply being busy all the time can fool you.

It's April Fools Day, which makes it a good time to sort out what's real out there, and what's just, well, a joke.

It's way too easy to fool yourself into thinking that you can do many things at the same time.

But they didn't have enough time to do this so now the proverbial greater fool is the US government.

So unless you can fool people all the time in the same direction, the average shock must be zero (as much positive as negative on average).

Mr. Tilson has co-authored two books, The Art of Value Investing: How the World's Best Investors Beat the Market (2013) and More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times (2009), was one of the authors of Poor Charlie's Almanack (2005), the definitive book on Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, and has written for Forbes, the Financial Times, Kiplinger's, the Motley Fool andTheStreet.com.

Of course, there will always be upside potential due to the pool of greater fools, especially considering that the supply of XAU shares is small at this time.

Quite frankly, I haven't been on the Motley Fool in a very long time but I do think for a newbie in the investment world it can be a great resource.

Over the weekend I was reading David Einhorn's book Fooling Some of the People All of the Time.

MH: The Fed's idea was to buy enough time for the banks to sell their junk mortgages to the proverbial «greater fool.»

When some fool comes to your house every week saying, «I have a message for you from God», after you have told them numerous times that you are not interested that's trying to force.

But they were ****** up in their turn By fools in old - style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy - stern And half at one another's throats.

Wouldn't you and your dribbling fools be better off spending all your available resources and time praying?

There was a time when my mind was dark, and I employed all these strategies too, fooling myself.

Bunch of fools, keep believing the same old folks tales, the same story keeps coming since sumarian times, there is not an original passage in the bible, new testament, koran etc, they just keep repeating and adjusting the story to their convinience.

Please tell me what sort of asinine fool spends so much time and effort and goodness to create from nothing a perfect universe and a perfect existence with all of its intricacy... and then when it's finally done, tricks Eve into eating an apple so that he can then undo his master work that he put so much time and effort into and turn it into the barely holding together chaos that we see today that he has to constantly micromanage?

Don't be a fool, friend, there is still time for you.

When you can prove God exists, then you will have my ear, until such time I will continue to believe you are a fool for devoting your life to something for which there is no evidence.

When you all can prove that God don't exist, then you will have my ear, until such time seek GOD he is calling you and stop being fools.

These are not the end times, you risible fools.

@Kenrick Benjamin: «When you all can prove that God don't exist, then you will have my ear, until such time seek GOD he is calling you and stop being fools.»

* Daniel 2:21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding: * Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowlegdge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Hmm — when I think charlatanism, I must confess, what comes to mind is this ridiculous excuse by early Christian apologists (Justin Martyr and others) that the devil was able to perform plagiarism in reverse time order (to fool people into thinking that other similar stories before the Gospels came first).

Some time ago I was contacted by Two Friars and a Fool to do a written interview that they could respond to by video.

Only God knows what is in their hearts, and they may fool a whole herd of right wing swine, but they won't fare so well, when it comes their time to give account of this little stunt before God's just judgement.

then go to another religion and see how many more people were fooled by some other religion, and then go and see how another religion fooled the masses over time, and on it goes.

Camping was an old fool who wasted his time attempting to force fit a book of mythology into reality.

Anybody who practices their faith untempered by time, history and human experience is a fool and is missing the point.

according to your misus / ignoring of context... things can be different when seen thru the eyes of another culture, time etc. context is extremely important in any communication, to ignore it is to be a fool and not get thru life very well with poor communication, It is not an opinion that Gensis was written in Middle Eastern context..

Why don't you quit wasting time with your private flame war and contribute something that shows you can be more than just an angry fool when provoked by somebody you don't even care about.

sadly though the ignorance that has been increasing in the country is making it easy to fool those feelings that have been passed to us from father to son since the times of the pharaohs.

We are but a ship of fools in this time of our dying heading towards the black mountain side!

I'm sure there were times when he got home after a date with me and had a great laugh at how easy it was too fool me!!!

He is what one poet has coined «You can fool all the people some of the time... but not all of the the people all of the time.»

Eph 5:15 -16 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, REDEEMING the time, because the days are evil.