Making decisions and Taking risks

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One should make all decisions in the course of seven breaths. Move fast when the time calls for it. - an old samurai proverb.

Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead. If you lose, you can guide.

If you can’t make up you mind decisively, then you’ll never learn to make money anyway. Opportunities come and go. Being able to know when to make quick decisions is an important skill.

Younger Jr.: You wanna know what I think?

Adult Jr.: Probably not.

Younger Jr.: I think you should go back to sleep, wake up in 20 years, and tell everybody how good you could’ve been. That’s what I think.

Quotes from the movie “The Tender Bar”

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. There is no passion to be found playing small, and settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. I am sure people have told you to make sure you have something to fall back on. I never understood that concept - having something to fall back on. If I am going to fall, I don’t want to fall back on anything. I want to fall forward. I figure, atleast this way I will see what I am going to hit. - Denzel Washington

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

- Robert Frost(1916)

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