Every day a great business general is shown some knot which has proven too much for his competitors, and he succeeds, because he finds a way to cut it.
You can't untie your Gordian knot because it can't be untied--you've got to cut it.
They are able to tie your business into constantly closer knots, while you cannot retaliate, because there is no knot which their advertising cannot cut for them.
How Alexander Untied the Knot Alexander the Great was being shown the Gordian Knot.
Slowly, as became a man of leisure, he strolled down to the works, and, moving from knot to knot of his colleagues, discussed the prospects of victory.
The little knot of earnest men and women who had settled in the district to spread light and culture had been angling for him for some time.
It is time for me to fly from Babylon when the knot that bound me to it is untied.
There has arisen in that land of successful and jubilant materialism, that citadel of rationalism in matters of religion, a knot of men formidable for their learning, their eloquence, their taste, and their wit.
Some species are adorned on the head with a helmet or horny casque, while others have fleshy wattles on the cheeks and a tuft or top-knot on the crown.
Large head with pronounced black knot and heavy gray dewlap under throat.
But it was the act of a small knot of conspirators who, with the cry of “Liberty and the Republic” in their mouths, did away with the Imperator to serve their own ends.
After checking the knot and testing the line by throwing his full weight against it, Strong stripped off his jacket and wrapped it about the line to prevent rope burns.
Tom dropped to his stomach and watched the knot of men.
From these bonds there was no escaping; Ned Parsons himself, with the blood yet trickling down his face and grizzled beard, making fast each knot and testing its security.
She had not yet descended when I came to the company, who were all laying their heads together very close in discussion, standing in a knot some way from the table, which was laid out with a very elegant repast.
We had that line out in double-quick time, cut away the hooks, and then proceeded to knot it at exact intervals corresponding with the length of the boat's after-thwart.
Milton speaks of it as "The knot grass, dew besprent.
Without an effort he untied the Gordian knot with these words: "If you leave Paris, the future will slip through your hands.
The postman got the knotundone at last and flung the hood over his elbow, hesitating.
There is an abundance of coarse black hair, which is generally rolled up in a knot at the back and fastened with a comb or band of stuff.
About midday the girls return, this time with their hair twisted into a knot on their necks, a patent indication that the age of marriage has been reached.
A knife in a leather or wooden sheath is the only weapon carried, though another small knife is frequently fastened in the hair, which is twisted into a knot and secured by a comb.
Both sexes keep their hair long and, like the Annamites, twist it into a knot at the back.
That knot of gentlemen issuing from a plain brick building--one of the banks--is composed of bank directors.
Near them a knot of embryo chiefs were gamboling in all the glorious freedom of "sans culottes".
Let Belshazzar send for Belteshazzar, and he would untie the knot and read the awful enigma.
But Gabriel told the prophet to send for the cord, and at each verse of the Koran recited over it a knot untied itself.
Tony had a little signal--he was much too proud to speak--he used to take out his pocket handkerchief and quite carelessly tie a knot in the centre.
A knot of seamen leaned against the outer stone wall of the pier smoking pipes and gazing idly across the opal coloured sea.
He whipped out his white handkerchief and with a single hand, an old conjuring trick, threw a knot in the centre and dangled it before Mrs. Barraclough's eyes.
We saw them, a little knotof men with the heavy weight of the fallen mummer in their midst, moving slowly to the wall of vines and through it into the mysterious depths beyond.
The casks and shackles willknot the rope round your stiff neck.
Uncle Seth wildly paced the room and scowled until every testy wrinkle on his face was drawn into one huge knot that centred in his forehead.
I swear I can see the hangman's knot in her halyard," Gleazen cried, and roundly braced his oath.
Come, bridegroom and bride, That theknot may be tied Which no power upon earth can hereafter divide.
She died before the fatal knot was tied; in fact, it was not tied at all.
Make a wreath of leaves cut out of paste, and a flower or knot for the centre; place them on the top-crust; and bake the pie well.
Cover the pie with a lid of puff-paste, rolled out thick; and notch the edges handsomely; placing a knot or ornament of paste on the centre of the top.
When the time drew near for the consummation of the ceremony, it became an important consideration to fix upon a lucky day and hour for the knot to be tied.
Very likely it will spin round at first, but by sliding the knot downward upon the balance strings you are certain to reach a point where the diving will cease.
True, on another occasion Couillard declared he "had unfastened the cords by pulling on one end, as one undoes the knot of bootlaces.
A lurking spirit of mischief, helped by the exhilaration she still felt after her two hours in the open air, made her retain her hold on the knot in the head girl's bootlace.
The knot had come undone by this time, and Jean was tugging at one end of the bootlace, while Babs, with an elfish glee shining in her bright little eyes, was keeping a firm hold on the other end.
The etiquette of the junior playroom was tremendous, and although forty-five sets of fingers were itching to be at the knot in the head girl's bootlace, nobody could move until Jean Murray did.
