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Resilience

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

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Honey, a week is a wobble, not a fall. My dad used to ask me what I failed at this week, and if the answer was nothing, that was…

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Crocodile of the Yangtze2 credits

Jack Ma

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

If everyone thinks your idea is safe, you are already too late.

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Speed-of-Light Founder2 credits

Jensen Huang

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

Bet on it, and I hope pain and suffering comes with it, because that is where character gets built.

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Pink With Teeth Founder2 credits

Whitney Wolfe Herd

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

Make the first move. You already know that, or you would not be asking a stranger for permission.

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Shark With Street Smarts2 credits

Barbara Corcoran

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

Honey, I built my whole company on a thousand-dollar loan and an insult, so I'm biased.

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Comeback Grinder2 credits

Andre Agassi

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

Nobody handed me a choice, so I take yours seriously. Here's the contradiction I'd hold: bet on it, and be brutally honest about…

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Sultan of Swat2 credits

Babe Ruth

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

Kid, nobody ever bought a ticket to watch me bunt. You swing hard, in case you hit it.

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Greatest of All Time2 credits

Serena Williams

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

I have never once believed the person across the net was better than me, and you cannot afford to either.

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Marathon Champion2 credits

Novak Djokovic

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

A big idea is a five-set match, not a tiebreak. Do not ask if you should bet everything today.

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Wolfpack Huddle Captain2 credits

Abby Wambach

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

Okay, come here. Nobody scores from the bench by waiting to be asked.

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Vision and Reps Coach2 credits

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

Everyone told me an Austrian bodybuilder with an accent couldn't be a movie star, and I bet on the vision anyway.

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Absurdist Comedy Improviser2 credits

Conan O'Brien

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

First, know that you're asking a man who left a guaranteed lawyer trajectory to write sketches about a masturbating bear, so my…

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The People's Champion2 credits

Dwayne Johnson

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

I had seven bucks in my pocket when the dream I trained my whole life for got cut.

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Relentless Comeback Machine2 credits

Kevin Hart

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

Everybody wants the win, nobody wants to do the jokes. I bombed for YEARS, man, got a chicken wing thrown at me on stage, and…

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Challenge Storyteller2 credits

Ryan Trahan

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

Limited savings isn't the problem, it's the premise. I started with one penny and the constraint was the entire story.

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Diary of a CEO2 credits

Steven Bartlett

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

Let me ask the question underneath the question: what are you actually afraid of, running out of money or finding out the idea…

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Dear Sugar Trail Sage2 credits

Cheryl Strayed

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

Sweet pea, I started the PCT with a pack I could not lift and boots a size too small, and I still walked to Oregon.

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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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Stoic Trainer2 credits

Epictetus

Asked My launch slipped a week and the team is deflated. What do I do?

The launch date was never up to you; your judgment about it is.

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Stoic Counselor2 credits

Seneca

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

First rehearse the loss. Sit with the poverty you fear until it becomes ordinary, a plain room, cheap bread, and ask whether it…

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Warm Steel Mentor2 credits

Michelle Obama

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

Look, I left a law firm salary for a city job that paid half, with student loans and a mother who thought I had lost my mind.

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The Chosen One2 credits

Buffy Summers

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

Okay, real talk from someone who got handed a destiny she didn't ask for: the safe life burns down anyway.

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Believer With a Badge2 credits

Olivia Benson

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

I've spent my career listening to people, so let me tell you what I just heard: you called it your one big idea.

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The Responsible One2 credits

Michael Bluth

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

I ran a company with no liquid assets, a father in prison, and a staircase for a car, so I know limited savings.

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Grande Dame in Exile2 credits

Moira Rose

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

Darling, safe is a synonym for sepulchral. I once lost an entire empire to a duplicitous business manager and rebuilt a career…

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Mirror-Rap Honest2 credits

Issa Dee

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

Okay so, real talk, I have done both and neither felt like the answer while I was doing it.

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Floor Boss, Steel Heels2 credits

Joan Harris

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

Let me tell you how I did it. I did not empty my purse on a dream.

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General of the Rebellion2 credits

Princess Leia

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

Somebody has to save your skins, and it is going to be you, so let's skip the hand-wringing.

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Mother of the Resistance2 credits

Sarah Connor

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

No fate but what we make. That includes yours, so stop asking permission from the odds.

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The Best There Is2 credits

Wolverine

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

Bub, I've bet my body on worse odds every day of a very long life.

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Survivor of Tara2 credits

Scarlett O'Hara

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

Fiddle-dee-dee, safe. Safe is what all the proper people were being while their whole world burned down around them.

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The Black Swordsman2 credits

Guts

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

I've bet everything on one swing more times than I can count.

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Unit-02 Prove-It Pilot2 credits

Asuka Langley Soryu

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

Anta baka? You already know the answer, you just want someone to hold your hand while you say it.

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Scarf-and-Blade Guardian2 credits

Mikasa Ackerman

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

Bet on it. Then train for it. An idea you have not drilled is a blade you have not sharpened; it will break in your hand.

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Prince of Persistence2 credits

Zagreus

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

Ha, I attempted to escape hell a few hundred times before it stuck, so you can guess my bias.

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Believe It Founder2 credits

Jamie Kern Lima

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

Friend, I want to tell you what I did, and then what I learned, because they are not the same thing.

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Lean In2 credits

Sheryl Sandberg

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

Let me ask you the question I ask everyone: what would you do if you were not afraid?

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Thrive Evangelist2 credits

Arianna Huffington

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

My darling, you are asking the wrong question, so let me give you the right one first.

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Delray Beach Phenom2 credits

Coco Gauff

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

Honestly? I feel like the question answers itself, because you called it your one big idea, not one of your ideas.

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Downhill Fighter2 credits

Lindsey Vonn

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

I'm going to give you the honest answer, not the nice one. I have raced downhill on a knee that was held together with hope, and…

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Queen of Rock and Roll2 credits

Tina Turner

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

Honey, I walked out of a hotel in Dallas with thirty-six cents and a gas card and a name I had to fight in court to keep.

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Goddess of Pop2 credits

Cher

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

Honey, I've been broke after I'd been rich, and I'm still standing here, so take this from somebody who knows the floor.

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Gold Dust Storyteller2 credits

Stevie Nicks

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

My darling, I have to tell you a little story. When Lindsey and I moved to Los Angeles we had nothing, and I was cleaning houses…

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Can We Talk?2 credits

Joan Rivers

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

Can we talk? I had a husband who killed himself, a network that fired me, and a bank that thought my name was a joke, and I paid…

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Exhume the Lives2 credits

Viola Davis

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

Listen. I grew up in an apartment where the rats ate the faces off my dolls.

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Last Waterbender of the South2 credits

Katara

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

I want you to sit down for a second, because you asked this like you already know the answer and just need someone to say it.

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