how does this saying go

it's easier to be a big fish in a little pond than a....

 

It's easier to be a BIG fish in a little pond, than a little fish in a BIG pond.

 

Though if you're into brand building I've also heard this one:

It's easier to be a big fish in a little pond than to risk having your message
drowned out by too much competition.

 

thanks a bunch

 

No, that's a different one: You're thinking of "It's better to be a bunch of big fish than one little fish walking home with a fat wallet."

 

Or, "It's better to be a fish, than smell like one" ?

 

I always thought it was better to eat fish...

 

and small fish in big ponds don't have to drink as much diluted fish piss

 

One of the feminist writers said "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle"...

A curious statement, when you stop to think about it. I once asked my class at the time (someone had written that on the blackboard before I entered the lecture room) if they thought the reverse would also be true: "A man without a woman is like a bicycle without a fish".


<edit: corrected the revised version... thanks Perrow!>

 

Big fish, little fish, cardboard box.

 

Or...

Big fish, little chips, newspaper fish wrap.

 

Or one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.

 

Nope, that would be "A man without a woman is like a bicycle without a fish", which I totally agree with.

 

LOL! I remember that book...

I used to do the bilingual version for my kids:

One fish, two fish
Poisson rouge, poisson BLEUHHHHHH!! (pretending to vomit - that used to crack them up when they were pre-schoolers)

 

Doh!

That's what I meant

 

Being a programmer I've learnt the hard way what bad copy/pasting can do. It's like content generating scripts. You might produce a lot in a short time but odds are you're gonna regret it later

 

It actually wasn't even cut and paste... just brain-lock.

That's another thing I've learned from debugging my own programs: You can stare and stare at a line that isn't working and see nothing wrong with it -- come back the next day and the error leaps off the page at you.

We often see what we expect to see...

 

Better to be a big fish in a little pond.... than to have to wake up and face the reality that all of my valiant efforts don't really mean anything in the grand scheme of things, and that my artificially inflated sense of self is so overly exagertated that I must lean on even the most meaningless of past accomplishments and ignore completely the many failures in my life to maintain my self image and preserve my self worth.....

or maybe it WAS ...than to be a little fish in a big pond....I can't remember either...hmmmm

 

You may think you are a big fish in a little pond until someone points out to you that it is a small fish bowl!