Kashagan has been a classic case of what can go wrong when you have too many cooks in the kitchen.
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But things can only go wrong when you start to fool yourself.
She discovered the hard way that, while critics are more than happy to see successful sport stars pull outrageous publicity stunts, it all goes wrong when you're perceived to be a show-off who can't back it up with results.
"The littlest bit of saltwater in the wrong place, when you flip the switch you'll have a short, " he said.
There is nothing wrong with aiming high when you begin game development.
Trying to figure out where you go wrong when it comes to reaching your goals?
Seneca's advice is to assume that everything will go wrong, so when it does you don't get upset.
This requires self awareness and the ability to admit when you are wrong.
Successful trading or investing is dependent on trying to put the odds in your favor and then having a clear exit strategy for when you are wrong.
Data frees you from dogmatic and popular opinions when they may be wrong and it will help you annihilate your competition.
He explained that "whereas you might get frustrated when the waitress at the counter gives you the wrong coffee, " after a recent trek he was so inured to adversity that he spent a couple of hours outdoors without even noticing it was pouring.
I'm wrong, but when the lungs are screaming you need every encouragement you can get.
So knowing that there's somebody there to pick you up when something goes wrong, I think is a nice thing to have.
" If anything, he said at a recent industry conference, "when you get all the data in one place, you discover what's wrong, where the bad data is.
The market works better when wrong decisions are punished and good decisions make you rich.
When have you had to face the wrong kind of attention and how did you deal with it?
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You're a contrarian in your trading, but how do you know when the herd is wrong and when they're right?
That sinking, nauseous, panicky feeling you get when something is truly wrong.
"When you take away somebody's heritage you steal their history - it's wrong and it's devastating for all of us, " says Mr Magnus.
If you look at earnings over the last 12 months, you come to some wrong conclusions about when stocks are expensive and when they are cheap.
But nothing beats driving away with your bag from a fast-food pickup window and discovering when you get home that your order is wrong.
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"Anything that provokes an emotional reaction because it's done wrong can result in bad word of mouth, particularly when you have groups that value each other's opinion, " says Ms. Kahn.
Yes, you can indeed be right when everyone else is wrong: but luck helps in investing just as it does anywhere else.
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When are you going to learn that it's wrong to force people to buy hundreds of channels they don't watch when they really only want a dozen or so?
The Japanese, you remember, lost Round 1 when they backed the wrong technological horse.
We argue that we cannot go on as we are: that when you're already borrowing so much it is quite wrong to deliberately borrow even more.
But as magazines and newspapers and books and business offices and schools make their inexorable leap into the digital future, there's nothing wrong with acknowledging just how nice the tactile, comforting, here-when-you-want-me world of words and pictures on paper has been, even while recognizing and appreciating the marvels of the new way.
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