How to Use all things to all people/men in a Sentence

all things to all people/men

noun phrase

• Own your space and do not try to be all things to all people.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2021
• There are politicians who want to be all things to all people.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2021
• That could put less pressure on one piece of work to be all things to all people.
  — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
• Is there one place in the sphere of social media that’s all things to all people?
  — J. Clara Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2023
• Or just another a stealthy pol trying to be all things to all people?
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
• Perhaps being all things to all people doesn’t leave much left over for you at the end of the day.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2023
• The government’s job is not to provide all things to all people.
  — John Sharp | [email protected], al, 11 Sep. 2023
• Trying to be all things to all people is usually a recipe for failure.
  — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
• In fact, trying to be all things to all people can have the opposite effect.
  — Allbusiness, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Agents that try to be all things to all people tend to fail spectacularly.
  — Larry English, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
• Brands that try to be all things to all people need to have very deep pockets when buyers are more demanding.
  — Richard Cook, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
• The boat show doesn't try to be all things to all people, said show manager Ben Nielsen.
  — Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2023
• Altman has a habit of being all things to all people, even when that may require being less than truthful.
  — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
• Companies often try to be all things to all people, spreading resources too thin.
  — Koray Köse, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
• You might be tempted to spread yourself thin right now, but being all things to all people just isn't possible.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2021
• The former president spent the early part of the pandemic trying to be all things to all people.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 11 Jan. 2024
• All of these qualities are important but no one institution can be all things to all people.
  — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2020
• The institution could grow and become all things to all people because it was intertwined with the state.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
• But that feeling — of guilt, of trying to be all things to all people while forging ahead with your career — is something that never goes away.
  — Mika Brzezinski, NBC News, 21 Apr. 2021
• Outside Business Journal Try to be all things to all people, and end up pleasing none.
  — Outside Online, 8 Dec. 2017
• The goal, as The Nation’s John Nichols observed last week, is to somehow be all things to all people.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 22 June 2022
• Because a president can't be all things to all people, some of the voters who helped put them in office are inevitably disappointed.
  — Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 July 2025
• Businesses are discovering that excelling in a few very specific areas builds more trust than trying to be all things to all people.
  — Jimmie Lee, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
• In its never-ending quest to be all things to all people, Netflix is continuing to build out a sizeable stack of horror content.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 1 July 2021
• The broadcast networks have always sought to be all things to all people, but that’s an almost impossible task in our fragmented marketplace.
  — Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• But the scramble to make Richter Tavern all things to all people has left it trapped in its own overproduced movie, flickering prettily against a brick wall.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Jan. 2022
• At the same time, Bed Bath & Beyond has been faulted by customers and analysts alike for trying to be all things to all people buying home goods.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
• Your female relatives in their 30s feel pressure to be all things to all people (their children, parents, partners, supervisors).
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• Your female relatives in their 30s feel personal pressure to be all things to all people (their children, parents, partners, supervisors).
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2021
• No better example exists of Mitchell’s paintings’ ability to be all things to all people than Sans Neige (1969).
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021