stick to the knitting


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stick to the knitting

1. To mind one's own business. Oh, stick to the knitting—I don't need to hear your opinion of every little thing I do.
2. To do only what one knows or is familiar with. You can't just stick to the knitting—you have to try new things too.
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stick to the (or your) knitting

(of an organization) concentrate on a known core area of business activity rather than diversify into other areas in which it has no experience. informal
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Besides the understandable desire to stick to the knitting, there are other business imperatives that drive cost-center managers to consider alternatives: rising costs of managing applications (people and vendor maintenance payments), ROIs that fail to materialize, and risks associated with the often abrupt departure of key support personnel.
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* product-market scope - a clear idea of what business or products a company was responsible for (predating the exhortations of Peters and Waterman to "stick to the knitting")
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We're concentrating on the DNA testing side of the business because, as the saying goes, stick to the knitting and focus on what you do best.
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He says: "Our traditional markets are coming back and we intend to stick to the knitting, to continue doing what we do best.
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Boyle added: "Our traditional markets are coming back and we intend to stick to the knitting, to continue doing what we do best.
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