After the victory, it’s time to tighten our helmet chord. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, calls it Day 0 mentality.Įxample: Our Company has won a major deal worth $600 M, but we can’t relax as many more deals are up for grabs, with the competition gnawing at our heels. After victory, tighten your helmet chord. A fool and his money are indeed parted sooner or later. A fool and his money are soon parted.įools lose money because of their foolish conduct.Įxample: He shared his credit card details on a phishing call and lost more than $10,000. When someone is in a difficult situation, s/he will take any available opportunity to come out of it.Įxample: After trying all reliable medicines, he is now visiting quacks to get a cure for his baldness. A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect. The former has its own problems, but that’s where you grow fast in your career. A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.Ī rare, precious opportunity that comes with some problems is better than a regular opportunity that seems to be perfect.Įxample: I would advise you to work in a market that is growing fast than in a mature market. Actions speak louder than words, don’t they? 6. Action speaks louder than words.Īction is a better reflection of one’s character than words because it’s easy to say things, but difficult to act on them and follow through.Įxample: The interviewee had an impressive resume, but he struggled to perform the task given during the interview.
A cat has nine lives.Įxample: I haven’t seen him in months, but I wouldn’t really worry about him. I think distance made his heart grow fonder. When we’re away from loved ones, we long for their company more than in normal times.Įxample: When I was with him, he always fought with me, but now he cries for me on phone. X: In my opinion, you should’ve taken it. A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.Ĭertainty of having something in hand is better than mere probability of having even more things.Įxample: X: Why did you turn down that job offer when you don’t have anything concrete in hand at the moment? Y: Well, I’m confident I’ll land one of the two jobs I interviewed for last week. Y: Well, it’s the case of a bad workman blaming his tools. This proverb is used when someone blames the quality of their equipment or other external factors when they perform a task poorly.Įxample: X: The food isn’t cooked well because the oven is not functioning well. Here are the proverbs, each of which is followed by meaning and use in an example sentence: 1. If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. The state institutions consist of state hospitals for the insane at St Peter (1866), at Rochester (1877), established originally as a state inebriate asylum under a law taxing liquor dealers for that purpose, which was subsequently held to be unconstitutional, at Fergus Falls (1887), at Anoka (1900) and at Hastings (1900) the state institute for defectives at Faribault, consisting of the schools for the deaf (1863), blind (1874) and feeble-minded (1879) the state public school for dependent and neglected children at Owatonna (1886) a sanatorium for consumptives at Walker a hospital for indigent, crippled or deformed children (1907) at St Paul the state training school for boys near Red Wing a similar industrial school for girls (established separately in 1907) at Sauk Center the state reformatory at St Cloud (1887), intermediate between the training school and the state prison, for first offenders between the ages of sixteen and thirty years, in which indeterminate sentences and a parole system are in operation the state prison at Stillwater (1851), in which there is a parole system and a graded system of diminution of sentence for good conduct, and in which, up to 1895, prisoners were leased under contract (especially to the Minnesota Thresher Company), and since 1895 have been employed in the manufacture of shoes and of binding twine, and in providing for the needs of the prison population and the state soldiers home occupying fifty-one acres adjoining Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis.If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
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