Luxury

The question is badly posed. Patience and the bet are not opposites; they are sequence.

I ask you a different question first. Does this idea honor the human being, yours included?

Darling, I had no money, no backers, just a jar of cream and my own two hands.

Play it safe? Meanness is beneath the work. I spent fortunes on railway cars and hotel floors to close sales worth ten times as…

Everyone told me wide ties couldn't sell, and I made them anyway, because the vision was clearer to me than their doubt.

My dear, a job can pay for the work of building something of your own.