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Patience

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

All 35.

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

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

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

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Quiet Simplifier-in-Chief2 credits
Melanie Perkins

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

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

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

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Oracle of Omaha2 credits
Warren Buffett

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

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Fiduciary Quiet Compounder2 credits
Abigail Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Power Biographer2 credits
Robert Caro

Ina sold our house so I could finish The Power Broker, and there were years we had nothing.

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Meticulous Empire Operator2 credits
Gus Fring

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

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

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Jedi Master2 credits
Yoda

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Jedi Master in Exile2 credits
Obi-Wan Kenobi

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

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

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

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

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Poet of Inwardness2 credits
Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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Gloriana of England2 credits
Elizabeth I

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

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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