"I don't really want to try to, I'll probably get misunderstood or something.
"He kind of gets misunderstood as being a little ornery, not talking to people," Garrigus said.
"Ethnic gets misunderstood for bazaar or street fair," said Mario Elcid, who owns the showroom with Hany Boutros.
As simple as communication seems, much of what we try to get across to others – as well as what others try to tell us – gets misunderstood.
But even that 46percentt ownership rate gets misunderstood, because it doesn't differentiate how much stock is owned by different income classes.
"The key thing in information sharing that gets misunderstood is...we're not talking about taking our personal e-mails and giving those to the government,'' Alexander said to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute.
Because Mr. Jacobs, perennially unshaven and wearing rundown Adidas and striped T-shirts from Hysteric Glamour in Tokyo, does not fit the conventional image, she said, he gets "misunderstood a lot".
"I'm not a bubbly, outgoing person, and I think I often get misunderstood because I'm not," said Ms. Mentzer, noting that she had not read the book.
"Walter is a cerebral kind of guy, so he does stay to himself more," said the Hall of Famer John Petraglia, 63. "He's not particularly funny or things like that, but he loves to play chess and he loves to analyze, and I think because of that he gets misunderstood sometimes as being aloof or standoffish.
Intentions get misunderstood and feelings get hurt regularly.
