No matter how often people tell you it is safe - you will never believe it until you have survived the experience.
If you believe the economy is improving, you've likely never met someone who still can't afford a can of cat food.
Would you believe HR has never had it better?
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Can you believe the SEC and NASD never thought to look at e-mails?
If you believe in something or you have a passion about something you must be persistent and you can never give up.
But I also believe that the free market has never been about taking whatever you want, however you can get it.
"If you asked me two years ago, I would never believe that so many young people would leave Greece and go to London or Germany or other European countries, " he said.
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And then I have to stand in front of a hundred people, often people I've never met before in my entire life, and you have to believe so passionately in what you're doing in order to actually enjoy that experience.
If you believe that content is king, the king has never had more power than today.
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"You would never ever have imagined the scoreline but I did believe that we could go and cause Rangers problems, " said McInnes.
But you would never know this from politicians, who seem to believe endlessly high unemployment is the cost Europeans have to pay for a civilised way of life.
You will never see a Ferrari electric because I don't believe in electric cars, because I don't think they represent an important step forward for pollution or CO2 or the environment.
Full disclosure: I spend a ton of time with my children, never travel, barely work and am a helicopter parent like you can't believe, and yet even I hired a baby nurse, because newborns are scary little aliens who look like you might smoosh them at any moment.
Would you believe the PBGC has taken over 4, 000 failed pensions and never once conducted a forensic investigation?
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But I also believe that at its best, the free market has never been a license to take whatever you want, however you can get it.
Even if you never show a profit, you can claim your losses if you can show you had good reason to believe you might make money--a chance for a substantial profit in a speculative venture is enough--and adjusted your strategy or quit the business when it didn't pan out.
"Never start a fight, but always finish it, " she tells her son early on, and you can believe she walks the talk.
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