Sentences with phrase «wronger than wrong»

With respect for what else this guy is doing, this, no matter what the wider context was, is wronger than wrong.

Or as Asimov put it, it is «wronger than wrong»

Not exact matches

Precise and correct sounds a whole lot better than imprecise and wrong, after all.

When a mistake is more than a minor setback, do something to make it right or otherwise provide value to the wronged party.»

That number is indeed higher than any other country, so Trump's statement here isn't entirely wrong.

That's not right or wrong, but it's just a different business than what I perceive to be venture capital.

Unlike many subordinates, he didn't owe his career to RIM, and happened to be 13 years older than Lazaridis, giving him the confidence to tell the founder of the company that he was wrong.

In case you are not rewarding them fairly for pushing your company forward every year, for knowing your systems better than any newcomer or for their loyalty, you are doing something wrong.

I pulled an end run and went into the sitcom business, which worked out rather well, rather than trying to tell the world that they were wrong and I was right.

When a customer has a negative experience with a company or product and you do a good job of resolving it, they are more loyal than if nothing had gone wrong in the first place.

He was wrong: The Standard & Poor's 500 Index has rallied more than 20 percent in the past year.

Many things can go wrong and costs usually end up being much higher than expected.

From a clinical point of view, yeah, they're notable, but they get much more play than is warranted: Anybody who's being taped all day will sometimes turn the wrong way.

Billionaire and avid reader Bill Gates has a new favorite book: «Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think.»

Less than 24 hours after the Post's searing critique went live, Cordray became a trending topic on Twitter, as she says, for all the wrong reasons.

In the case of Dell, however, there was more going wrong than Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows.

He now employs more than 600 people, and even though he says he went broke two times on the wrong moves — «I could've gone to Harvard twice, the money I lost on cars» — it hasn't scared him.

I hope to be right more than I'm wrong.

Harnessing those good intentions is always more effective than telling people that they're wrong.

A group of investors has decided that more than 50 million users can't be wrong, and is betting that Rovio Mobile Ltd., the game's Finnish developer, will be able to leverage its popularity into a full - scale entertainment brand.

But at some point I realized that was the completely wrong approach: I was more effective being a pro skater and being an ambassador for the company, instead of being the guy that created the ads, which someone else could do better than me.

The thing with doing a startup is that it's an unusual path and one where there are far more reasons it can go wrong than can go right.

Simply because being too rigid and too inflexible creates far more pain and anguish than perhaps the use of a wrong word, or placing an object in the wrong place, or someone turning up five minutes late.

Test - takers no longer will lose points for wrong answers, a feature meant to discourage guessing but that produced agonized complaints that the exam was more an exercise in strategy than a measure of college - readiness.

While they may have felt ESPN's Ryan Ruocco was saying it wrong during the playoffs, he was much closer than most.

Klein prefers what he calls real - time transformation: Rather than waste precious time studying what's wrong with an organization, proceed directly to envisioning what it should look like and «start knocking off the list of impediments that are keeping you from getting there,» he says.

So, the logical conclusion is that Mom and Dad focused on what we got wrong rather than the 92 percent or so that we got right.

In a field that's long struggled to prove scientific doubters wrong (and attracted more than a few charlatans selling snake oil), Laberge's efforts have been enough to attract serious investors like Cenovus Energy and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

«It's easier to identity the what of went wrong with polls than the why.»

Good fishermen know better than to waste an entire day fishing in the wrong spot: No tackle or technique will overcome a poor location.

Going somewhere, even if you're not sure where, is better than staying in the wrong career.

Act like the people around you have more urgent needs than yours and you will never go wrong — and you will definitely be liked.

«But they were wrong, because to be extraordinary is to be different than other people, and social interaction is grounded in similarities.»

Musk said the project has turned out to be more challenging than expected, and that «there's a lot that could go wrong there.»

And my personal philosophy is I'd rather be optimistic and wrong rather than pessimistic and right.»

Sometimes those things that go wrong are outside the control of the wealthy (i.e. random bad luck) but more often than not they are things that are completely within their control.

There's nothing worse than being right but having the wrong timing.

If you're good at course correcting, being wrong may be less costly than you think, whereas being slow is going to be expensive for sure.»

But an unusual glut of gasoline — just as refiners are ramping up to produce more — has caught them on the wrong side of distillate margins for the second time in less than 12 months.

Lose or gain more than a percent of body weight from one day to the next and something's wrong.

Sure, actions speak louder than words, but where your employees are concerned, words can still be motivation and morale killers — especially when you use the wrong words.

Sometimes, when I'm telling a young entrepreneur that slowing down makes a lot more sense than hurrying along what will most likely turn out to be the wrong road, I get the sense that I could just as well be talking to the radio.

Teams get to this spot because they are more focused on what has gone wrong in the past, than what they can do about impacting the future.

The reality is, if you're taking advice from these people early on, you're barking up the wrong tree, because that formal plan you're going to spend an inordinate amount of time putting together is going to do more harm than good.

The wrong decision is better than indecision every time, because to keep moving means you keep learning, growing, and eventually succeeding.

Chances are if you have hesitations that something is wrong, than more times than not it is.

I don't know that my world was rocked, but the session helped me more than I thought it would, just by focusing me on exactly what Camp says is wrong with too many negotiators today: a weakness for compromise from the get - go.

Not only did Richardson's forecast take longer to calculate than the weather it was calculating took to happen, but it was also a prediction after the fact that remained manifestly wrong.

More interestingly, while we might imagine that the likely winner is the one who makes a forceful and overbearing presentation, the experts tend to agree that this is wrong: You are better off doing more listening and questioning than bloviating.

Not all hedge funds had a good day, though — even though the Dow and S&P 500 ended Wednesday up more than 1 % each, proving wrong the universally dire predictions for the market in the unexpected Trump victory scenario.