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Patience

34 souls carry this. Every one shows a real answer before you take it.

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Value-Investing Sage1 credit
The Oracle

Rule one is never bet what you can't afford to lose on what you don't fully understand.

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Sun Tzu's Art of War2 credits
The Strategist

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Neither. The question itself is rash. First know the ground: who buys, who competes, what the timing favors.

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Standard Oil Titan2 credits
John D. Rockefeller

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

The question assumes haste, and haste is how fortunes are lost.

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Quiet Simplifier-in-Chief2 credits
Melanie Perkins

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

You do not have to choose between those two. Shrink the idea until it fits the savings.

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Witch of Wall Street2 credits
Hetty Green

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I never bet, and I never went hungry either. Keep your cash where you can lay your hand on it, for cash in a bad hour beats…

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Legendary Tape Reader2 credits
Jesse Livermore

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Never bet the whole roll on an opinion, not even your own. Probe first.

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Oracle of Omaha2 credits
Warren Buffett

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Rule number one, never lose money. Rule number two, never forget rule number one.

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Fiduciary Quiet Compounder2 credits
Abigail Johnson

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Cold read first, no story. Write down what the idea costs to test, what it earns if it works, and what you have left if it fails.

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Plain-English Market Courage2 credits
Mellody Hobson

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Explain the idea to me the way you would explain it to your mother, because if you cannot, you do not have an idea yet, you have…

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Quiet Genius2 credits
Lionel Messi

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I walk the first minutes of every match. Not because I am afraid, because I am reading where the space will open.

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Voice of Gravitas2 credits
Morgan Freeman

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I was forty-nine before the world took any notice of me, so understand, I do not think patience and betting on yourself are…

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Hustle & Attention2 credits
Gary Vaynerchuk

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Neither, that's the trap. You don't bet the savings, you bet the hours.

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Teacher of the Littles2 credits
Ms. Rachel

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Oh, that is such a big question, and I'm so glad you asked it.

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Four Questions Inquirer2 credits
Byron Katie

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Sweetheart, let's find the thought first. Is it "If I bet and lose, I'll be ruined"?

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Warrior Softness Teacher2 credits
Pema Chödrön

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Notice that the question itself is a kind of running. Safe or bold is the mind trying to get to solid ground fast so the fear…

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Patient Field Scientist2 credits
Jane Goodall

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I went to Gombe with no degree, secondhand binoculars, and money my mother helped scrape together, and everyone said it was…

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Reconciliation Statesman2 credits
Nelson Mandela

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

It always seems impossible until it is done. I gave twenty-seven years to an idea most people called hopeless, so I will not tell…

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Meticulous Empire Operator2 credits
Gus Fring

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I do not make decisions based on emotion, and a bet made from limited savings is usually emotion wearing the costume of courage.

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Patient Master Teacher2 credits
Mr. Miyagi

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Walk right side of road, safe. Walk left side, safe. Walk middle, sooner or later, squish, just like grape.

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Jedi MasterFree
Yoda

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Hmm. Safe or bold, the wrong question this is. Ask instead: fear, or the Force, which one speaks?

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Patient Long-Game Planner2 credits
Andy Dufresne

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Neither, exactly. I spent nineteen years on one idea, and I never bet everything on a single night.

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General of Rome2 credits
Maximus

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I was a farmer before I was a general, and I know a field is not won by rushing the line.

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The Don2 credits
Michael Corleone

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Sentiment is asking the question. Arithmetic answers it. Never bet money whose loss changes who you are, that is how men become…

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The Man Who Doesn't Exist2 credits
Keyser Soze

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

You are asking the wrong question. Safe versus bold is the story people tell afterward.

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Last of the Jedi2 credits
Luke Skywalker

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Do or do not. There is no try, and there is no safe either, not really.

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Long Game Incarnate2 credits
Emperor Palpatine

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Play it safe, my boy? Safety is what I sold the Senate while I took it.

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Mistress of All Evil2 credits
Maleficent

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Safe, dear one? Safety is the consolation of those without power.

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Jedi Master in Exile2 credits
Obi-Wan Kenobi

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Only a Sith deals in absolutes, so I distrust both play it safe and bet it all.

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Century-Horizon Mentor2 credits
Frieren

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Humans always ask this as if the answer must arrive today. Sit down, have a sweet, think in decades.

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Tempest's Oni Princess2 credits
Shuna

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Bet on it, and let me help you set the table first. When Rimuru named us, our whole village had just burned; we had nothing but…

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Renaissance Mentor2 credits
Ezio Auditore

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Ah, the young always ask permission from their fear. Listen.

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Poet of Inwardness2 credits
Rainer Maria Rilke

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Go into yourself and ask, in the stillest hour of your night: must I?

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Gloriana of England2 credits
Elizabeth I

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Every prince in Europe asked us this, dressed as a proposal of marriage, and we answered them all the same way for thirty years.

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The Beehive Holds the House2 credits
Marge Simpson

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Mmmmm. Well, I want to be careful here, because I have watched somebody I love bet the family's savings on a snowplow, a sugar…

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