Name: English Tutor Nick P Proverbs (64) He Who Hesitates is Lost
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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Proverbs 64. The proverb today is ' He who

hesitates is lost. " Okay. Let's take a look at the note here.

This proverb is originally credited to Joseph Addison an essayist  An

English poet and essayist. Of course,  so it was originally a quote that came from

him. Let's continue. The proverb today basically means that if you don't make a

quick and definite decision,  you may lose a good opportunity. All right. Let's take a

look at the first example. You definitely hear this proverb used with investment

analysts. They often say he who hesitates is lost when either encouraging someone

to take advantage of a good buying opportunity or a good selling

opportunity. Yeah. So with the buying opportunity,  they say well now is the

time to buy. If you don't you know maybe the price will go up,  and you lost a good

entrance point.  You lost a good point where you can make a nice profit and it

may go much higher it's about to take off. You know , it's about to go

considerably higher. Where you can make big profits,  but if you wait too long

well then it will have already gone up a lot,  and I don't know if you could still

make some money. But you won't make the big profit that they were saying you

should. The same could go for selling opportunity maybe you know when it gets

up really really high and you're thinking about selling or maybe you're

not,  maybe maybe you make the mistake and think Oh it'll go higher and higher and

higher and higher and you don't take the good opportunity of selling as well.

And you wait too long and it comes down and you lost a lot of profit you could

have made. So they might use it in both ways so we hear it in business with

investors a lot , you know,  he who hesitates is lost. You wait too long,  you

lost your chance,  you lost your good opportunity.  Okay. Let's look at the second example.

The second example of course has an a/b part and A says,  after Sally broke up

with her last boyfriend,  John really wanted to ask her out.

But he waited too long and she ended up starting a relationship with another guy.

Yeah. So he hesitated. Maybe he thought she needed more time,  and before he knew

it,  somebody else got her. Somebody else started dating her. So he lost his

opportunity and of course B here says,  well he who hesitates is lost.

You know , that's what happened. Well he had his chance.

He waited too long. Okay anyway that's the way we use it.  I hope you got it. I hope it

was clear. Thank you for your time.  Bye-bye.