"Strike when the iron is hot"
Say this instead: act now
How "Strike when the iron is hot" shows up at work
A 500-year-old blacksmithing metaphor that now mostly lives in sales emails and strategy memos. Usually appears right before a deadline that was just invented to create urgency.
The market is ready and we need to strike when the iron is hot.
The market is ready and we need to act now.
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