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Persuasion

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

All 9.

Begin with honest appreciation, not a postmortem. Charles Schwab told me he never met a person who didn't work better under…

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

I climbed from Arpinum to the consulship with no inheritance but a cultivated mind, so do not tell me safety is the only prudence.

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

When 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…

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

I should think the question wrongly framed, for it need not be all wager or all caution.

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

Safe is what people say when they're afraid to want something.

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

Neither, that's a false choice, and false choices are for people without representation.

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

Play it safe? Pal, safe is how you die in a cubicle with a gold watch and a grudge.

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

Safe? Safe is a disease. The only thing between you and that idea is the story you're telling yourself about why you can't.

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

What, like it's hard? Betting on yourself is not reckless if you do the reading first.