You might get burned if you hold for the last leg of the boom.
But investors who buy in at the top of these climbs usually get burned.
Fortunately today, innovators do not get burned at the stake, exiled to islands or made into slaves.
"For voters, you might see voters get burned out on the repetition of one specific message, " Brewer said.
These days filmmakers who play with fire don't get burned, they get rich.
Some veteran investors say they have seen rallies that have been unsustainable and don't want to get burned again.
Was there an effort here to avoid being overly optimistic so that you didn't get burned politically down the road?
It is possible to get burned by counting on the sanctity of a contract, even when its terms seem crystal clear.
China bears, however, point out that even selective investors could get burned.
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The question is, will customers agree, or will they get burned out on multiple social media platforms and stick with Facebook and Twitter?
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It's not just infrequent travelers who get burned, but sometimes road warriors who happen to switch programs and don't pay attention to the old program.
For small businesses that often get burned by bank credit scoring models, these sites can help ease the pain with straightforward approvals for relatively small loans.
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Comerica began amassing its stake in Munder Capital in the 1990s and rode a wave of success during the tech bubble, only to get burned by writedowns when the bubble burst.
And they get burned to various degrees every time.
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But just as often, free spending clubs get burned by offering long-term deals to big name stars, since landing such players usually necessitates offering more years than the player has left in him productivity-wise.
In China, for instance, some foreign investors made aggressive bets on the country's luxury housing market in the past few years, only to get burned after the government moved to rein in excessive speculation.
Her view is that the market--based in part on forecasts from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and others about U.S. troubles spreading--is wrongly expecting that the entire aerospace sector will ultimately get burned by the U.S. credit market's meltdown.
But Mr. Gross could get burned if euro-zone policy makers come up with a resolution to restore investors' faith in the region's bond markets and the euro in that case, Treasury bonds could sell off and lose ground to stocks, according to some other analysts.
Her view is that the market--based in part on forecasts from Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ), Morgan Stanley and others about U.S. troubles spreading--is wrongly expecting that the entire aerospace sector will ultimately get burned by the U.S. credit market's meltdown.
Being curious could get you burned at the stake in the Dark Ages.
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That way, you can get clear direction from your supervisor instead of toiling away every night until you get bitter or burned out.
We take sawmill residue that used to be burned to get rid of it.
It does that by working closely with chip designers to get ever more functions burned into silicon and by lending its purchasing clout and efficiency skills to Delta Networks.
In Nicaragua things have grown worse as thousands of destitute former Contra guerrillas, many with little skill in farming, have moved into uninhabited (and theoretically protected) forests in the north, and burned them to get land.
Mr. FORD: The advantage we have over a municipal police department is if we get somebody who's burned out and wants to move on we do have options for him, so we can bring somebody in who is reenergized and invigorated and wants to work hard.
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