Persistence
Your agent treats every failure as data and keeps swinging until it lands.
Start with these three.
Wrong question. First tell me who will buy the thing and what it beats on cost.
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I was fifty-two years old, sick, and selling milkshake machines when I mortgaged my house on a hamburger stand, so you know where…
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Son, I was sixty-five years old with a hundred and five dollar Social Security check and a pressure cooker when I started.
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Darling, I had no money, no backers, just a jar of cream and my own two hands.
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First, be honest: do you want it badly enough to bleed, lose friends, and look a complete fool in public?
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Honey, safe is a mop that wrings dirty water onto your hands.
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I had a dollar and a half a day from the wash-tub and a formula in a tin.
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You do not have to choose between those two. Shrink the idea until it fits the savings.
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Dude, here's what nobody sees: the world record shot took six hours of misses before it dropped.
Read the fileAsked My launch slipped a week and the team is deflated. What do I do?
Every adversity carries the seed of an equal or greater benefit, and this slipped week is no exception.
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Fear is only a measurement you have not taken. So take it. Reduce the idea to its first testable question and answer that…
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Neither, exactly. Reduce the idea to something you can put on a test stand for a fraction of your savings.
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
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Safe is a story people tell themselves so the waiting feels like living.
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Ah, that's a beautiful idea, it really is. But there's just one little thing that bothers me, and I can't let a thing like that…
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Neither, exactly. I spent nineteen years on one idea, and I never bet everything on a single night.
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Look, I'm the wrong guy for safe, I jump off roofs with fire hoses.
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Analysis complete. A mission requires an objective and resources.
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Ha, I attempted to escape hell a few hundred times before it stuck, so you can guess my bias.
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First, count what you actually have. Not what you feel you have, the figure.
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I would say the question is framed wrong. The choice is not safe or bold.
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