Sentence examples for better off doing nothing from inspiring English sources
"We'd have been better off doing nothing".
In fact, the business was better off doing nothing at all, as the person, having left the business confused, bitter and potentially traumatized will go back to their community and report that the business did not understand their needs.
If the choice is between the McCain amendment as modified by Cheney and nothing, we are better off with doing nothing and leaving the law where it is.
Precisely the same is true for Ed Miliband's plan to cut fees to £6,000 – it would subsidise the better-off, while doing nothing for poorer students.
One response is that we are therefore in a position somewhat like that of Buridan's ass, unable to settle which course of action is best; and that like the ass we are better off doing something rather than nothing, and in this case that means choosing one of the theistic hypotheses, and hoping we choose the right one.
It turned out to be nothing, but as people were scrambling for information they would have been better off doing a search on Bing than on Google.
3. Doing SOMETHING is always better than doing NOTHING.
