What your job is, is to make sure whenever you do come face-to-face with them, you live up to their expectations.

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The question is whether or not Liverpool can live up to their financial expectations.

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Having watched their shares suffer because they failed to live up to analysts' expectations, many companies are wondering whether they would be better off saying nothing at all.

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Meantime they have low expectations of anyone who appears neurotic, who seems withdrawn and too anxious to live up to their potential.

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