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In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Prudence · 1841

Quotes

“It’s never too early to start winning.”

Ian Fleming · Goldfinger, 1959 · Primary source

“If you’re wrong, you will die. But most companies don’t die because they are wrong; most die because they don’t commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is in standing still.”

Andrew S. Grove · Only the Paranoid Survive, 1996 · Primary source

“It was wonderful to walk down the long flights of stairs knowing that I’d had good luck working. I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.”

Ernest Hemingway · A Moveable Feast, 1964 · Primary source

“It was the mistakes one made at the beginning of a case that were the worst. They were the irretrievable ones, the ones that got you off on the wrong foot, that gave the enemy the first game.”

Ian Fleming · Dr. No, 1958 · Primary source

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