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Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
Jim Rohn
You
People
Better
Easier
Promised
More
Said
Understated
Surprised
Overstated
Than
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Tribal
Focus
Power
East
Some
Rivalries
Emotive
Over
Overstated
Middle
Being
Middle East
Cannot
Serious
The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.
Steven Pinker
Parents
Group
Peer
Peer Group
Has-Been
Parental
Shaped
Idea
Development
Massively
Greater
Passive
Been
Overstated
Than
Child
Achievements
Children
Far
Aspiration
Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.
Grace Napolitano
Has-Been
Security
Totally
Demise
Prior
Been
Years
Effective
Overstated
Predictions
Social
Social Security
It is a tenet of my investment style that, on the subject of common stock investment, maximizing the upside means first and foremost minimizing the downside. The deleterious effect of permanent capital loss on portfolio returns cannot be overstated.
Michael Burry
First
Style
Investment
Returns
Permanent
Loss
Subject
Foremost
Effect
Overstated
Stock
Maximizing
Common
Upside
Cannot
Capital
Means
Downside
Portfolio
That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and purely literary, written for audiences that want to see the same thing enacted over and over and over again. But the middle is where most people read and most people write.
Justin Cronin
People
Same Thing
Books
Distinction
See
Purely
Vastly
Write
Written
Clearly
Over
Poles
Most
Read
Audiences
Overstated
Commercial
Same
Middle
Where
Want
Literary
Again
Far
View
Thing
Your tenacity is a larger deciding factor in your success than however good or bad an actor you may be. I feel like that's just something that cannot be overstated enough for people getting into the business. You have to really want it more than anybody else.
Matt Letscher
Success
Good
You
Business
People
Enough
Else
Bad
Something
More
Tenacity
Factor
Feel
Like
However
Overstated
Than
Getting
May
Just
Anybody
Anybody Else
Want
Cannot
Deciding
Just Something
Really
Your
Actor
Larger
We are seeing entrepreneurs issuing their own blockchain-based tokens to raise money for their networks, sidestepping the traditional, exclusive world of venture capital altogether. The importance of this cannot be overstated - in this new world, there are no companies, just protocols.
Olaf Carlson-Wee
World
Money
Own
Seeing
Networks
Entrepreneurs
Exclusive
New
Importance
Venture
Venture Capital
Altogether
Traditional
Overstated
New World
Just
Cannot
Capital
Companies
Raise