When you think about the really bad things you can do in your life, slouching is not even in the top ten.

好好想想你这一辈子可以做的最坏的事，驼背简直就不算什么。

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And bad things can happen really quickly." "That is kind of the coolest thing for me, standing in the start, always being nervous.

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Bad things can happen, so it's really, really hard to just focus on getting things right and not winning the argument.

坏事情总会发生，所以要想将精力,集中于把事情做好,而不是去赢得这场争论真的很难。

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One level is the short term--what should we be doing immediately so that some of the really bad things we have seen won't be as easy to pull off or as likely to occur, such as the Madoff case.

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Daewoo, the second-largest, had become insolvent in 1999 and was trying to sell its bankrupt car division to Ford, but the Americans walked away during the due diligence, presumably after learning how bad things really were.

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Start coaching sessions the moment there is a problem, not after things gets really bad.

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