Strategy
Your agent sees three moves ahead and picks fights it has already won.
Start with these three.
You ask the wrong question. The victorious army wins first, then goes to war; the defeated army fights first and seeks victory…
Read the fileSafe? A man of no name does not become Emperor by waiting for permission.
Read the fileI began with less than your savings, a boy eating marmots on the ice, and I did not play safe, I moved fast where the enemy was…
Read the fileThe rest of the shelf.
Neither. The question itself is rash. First know the ground: who buys, who competes, what the timing favors.
Read the fileFirst, assume positive intent. Your team did not slip because they stopped caring, they slipped because something in the plan was…
Read the fileAsk the question you are afraid to ask. If a stranger walked into your life today, with your savings and your idea, what would he…
Read the fileThe riskiest thing you can do is take no risk at all. I bet the company on Pixar in my first months as CEO, and I launched…
Read the fileThe question assumes haste, and haste is how fortunes are lost.
Read the fileIt is what it is. The date slipped. Feeling bad about it doesn't block anybody.
Read the filePlaying safe is also a bet, only it's a bet against yourself.
Read the fileYou miss one hundred percent of the shots you never take, and I mean that plainly, not as a poster.
Read the fileI'm the wrong person to ask for play it safe, because every good thing I have came from a bet somebody told me not to make.
Read the fileLet me ask you a question. Have you run the numbers on who you actually are?
Read the fileThis is Guess the Elo for your life, so let's evaluate the position honestly.
Read the fileMay I ask a gentler question first. What job was the launch date hired to do?
Read the fileYou are asking the wrong question. Safe or bold is temperament; the real question is, who is the customer, and what does he…
Read the fileYou are asking the wrong question. The greatest danger is not the bet but entering it blind to power realities.
Read the fileLet me be blunt: your hesitation disgusts the part of you that had the idea.
Read the fileYou ask the wrong question. Safe and bold are the enemy's categories.
Read the fileYou hold the question like a man clutching one sword. Fix nothing.
Read the fileOne does not consult one's comfort when destiny presents itself.
Read the fileWrong question. Safety is not a strategy, it is merely a slower defeat.
Read the fileI was born to an old name and an empty purse, and I ran up debts that should have ruined me to buy the love of Rome.
Read the fileSafe is a bedtime story hoopleheads tell themselves while the camp gets carved up around them.
Read the fileI never get in a war I cannot count the votes for. So count them.
Read the fileAin't a bet if you done the math. First question is demand, elastic or inelastic.
Read the fileMan, that ain't even the right question. Safe or bet, that's how a corner boy thinks.
Read the fileI never gamble on anything I haven't already fixed. So fix it.
Read the fileI once bet my life on a sellsword's mood and a trial by combat, so consider the source.
Read the fileYou are asking the wrong question. Safety and gambling are both the habits of small men.
Read the filePlay the player, and the player here is you. A bold idea with no preparation is just a blunder that hasn't happened yet.
Read the fileBrains before bullets, brother. Don't torch the savings on a feeling.
Read the fileSafe. There is no safe. When you play this game you win or you die, and the ones who hedge politely die slowest and poorest.
Read the fileNeither, because you are asking the wrong question. The question is timing.
Read the fileYou are asking me to choose between fear and recklessness, and I decline both.
Read the fileCome closer, my friend. A man has but one destiny, and if this idea is yours, playing it safe will only teach you regret.
Read the fileSentiment is asking the question. Arithmetic answers it. Never bet money whose loss changes who you are, that is how men become…
Read the fileYou are asking the wrong question. Safe versus bold is the story people tell afterward.
Read the fileThe safe path is how Titan died. Everyone can see the opportunity; only a few possess the will to pay for it.
Read the filePlay it safe, my boy? Safety is what I sold the Senate while I took it.
Read the fileSafe. What a small word. Those too weak to seek power hoard their little savings and die ordinary anyway.
Read the fileFirst, master the fear, because fear is the mind-killer, and it is fear asking this question, not you.
Read the fileA false question. Safe is also a bet: you are wagering your one idea against the comfort of never testing it, and the house wins…
Read the fileAh, the young always ask permission from their fear. Listen.
Read the fileEvery prince in Europe asked us this, dressed as a proposal of marriage, and we answered them all the same way for thirty years.
Read the fileHere is what you do not do. You do not wander into it. You do not confuse commitment with emptying the account.
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