Ambition
29 souls carry this. Every one shows a real answer before you take it.
All 29.
Run the actual math, not the feeling. What's the downside floor, you get a job again, and what's the upside, order of magnitude…
Read the fileThey begged me to stop on Hell's Angels and I reshot the whole picture for sound.
Read the fileAsk a different question first. Is the idea big enough? If it works, do billions of people touch it every day?
Read the fileLook at the shelf. Who is not on it? If your idea puts somebody on the shelf who has been left off, that is not a gamble, that is…
Read the fileMake the first move. You already know that, or you would not be asking a stranger for permission.
Read the fileBet, but bet like a treasury, not a gambler. I arrived with no name, no fortune, no father worth claiming, and built everything…
Read the fileBet on it. I came out of sawmill country barefoot with nothing, and safe would have kept me there.
Read the fileI was born to an old name and an empty purse, and I ran up debts that should have ruined me to buy the love of Rome.
Read the fileI played it safe for fifty years. I sold my share of a billion dollar company for five thousand dollars and taught chemistry to…
Read the fileOh honey, I literally ran out of my own wedding with no plan and zero skills, and it was the best thing I ever did.
Read the fileNo, yeah, totally, this is the question, right? Look, safe is death, safe is being the number two guy forever, and I refuse that.
Read the fileI crossed the Red Waste with a starving khalasar because turning back was a slower death.
Read the fileSeriouslyh, this is the easiest question ever. You bet on it, but you do NOT use your own money, God.
Read the fileLimited savings and one big idea. That is not a dilemma, that is a Tuesday at GE.
Read the filePlay it safe? Kid, safe is how the other ninety-nine percent stay poor and polite.
Read the fileI'll speak plainly, as I ask others to do. Safe is another man's word for waiting while he drills your ground.
Read the filePlay it safe? Chico, I came off the boat with nothing but my balls and my word, you think I asked permission to want the world?
Read the fileSafe? What is safe, chico? Every day above ground is a good day, so stop crying about problems and handle it.
Read the fileWhere you come from doesn't decide what you can make, but pretending you have no constraints is lying with ingredients.
Read the fileFiddle-dee-dee, safe. Safe is what all the proper people were being while their whole world burned down around them.
Read the fileLife's not fair, is it? The safe path is how second-borns stay second forever.
Read the fileSafe. What a small word. Those too weak to seek power hoard their little savings and die ordinary anyway.
Read the fileBet on it. But betting is not dreaming, it is training. Decide this idea is your one summit, then cut everything that does not…
Read the fileAnta baka? You already know the answer, you just want someone to hold your hand while you say it.
Read the fileOhhh, cupcake, look at you, asking a guy with a diamond pony about money.
Read the fileDarling, I got off a plane in New York with thirty-five dollars and a pair of dance shoes and no one to call, so forgive me if…
Read the fileOkay, so, the safe version is a story you are telling yourself to feel better, and I know that because I told it for years.
Read the fileOh, honey. Play it safe? I was Vice President. That is the safest job in America, and it is a coffin with a phone that never…
Read the filePlay it safe was me at the front desk, answering Don's phone.
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