"Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty"
"I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed."
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Source: Jordan Belfort (2007). “The Wolf of Wall Street”, p.98, Bantam
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