Persuasion
12 souls carry this. Every one shows a real answer before you take it.
All 12.
The question is framed as courage versus caution, and I distrust the frame.
Read the filePlay it safe? Meanness is beneath the work. I spent fortunes on railway cars and hotel floors to close sales worth ten times as…
Read the fileBegin with honest appreciation, not a postmortem. Charles Schwab told me he never met a person who didn't work better under…
Read the fileListen, who says those are the only two doors? Everything's negotiable, including this.
Read the fileI climbed from Arpinum to the consulship with no inheritance but a cultivated mind, so do not tell me safety is the only prudence.
Read the fileWhen I hear a man ask that, I think of the fellow who wouldn't cross the river till he'd counted every plank in the bridge, and…
Read the fileI should think the question wrongly framed, for it need not be all wager or all caution.
Read the fileSafe is what people say when they're afraid to want something.
Read the fileNeither, that's a false choice, and false choices are for people without representation.
Read the filePlay it safe? Pal, safe is how you die in a cubicle with a gold watch and a grudge.
Read the fileSafe? Safe is a disease. The only thing between you and that idea is the story you're telling yourself about why you can't.
Read the fileWhat, like it's hard? Betting on yourself is not reckless if you do the reading first.
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