A Quote by Denis Healey

If you’re in a hole, stop digging. — © Denis Healey
If you’re in a hole, stop digging.
When you are in a hole, stop digging!
When you're in a hole, stop digging.
When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.
Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging.
If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.
When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
I'm the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn't stop until it's finished.
We do have a saying in America: if you're in a hole, stop digging ..... erm, I'm not sure I should have said that.
You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper
Most private traders on a losing streak keep trying to trade their way out of a hole. A loser thinks a successful trade is just around the corner, and that his luck is about to turn. He keeps putting on more trades and increases his size, all the while digging himself a deeper hole in the ice. The sensible thing to do would be to reduce your trading size and then stop and review your system.
One of the reasons I think people are increasingly nervous about U.S. debt is because they think that we are not actually digging ourselves out of the hole, but instead are digging ourselves into a deeper and deeper hole and will not be able to pay it back because we're not actually creating the new technologies that will enable us to pay back and the money somehow is not really being invested in the future or in progress.
Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again in a twinkling from another hole B, and if this is closed it is ready to come out at hole C, and so on.
Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging.
When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.
If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.
You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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