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Want To Be Insanely Successful? Put All Your Eggs in One Basket.

Anthony Moore
8 min readAug 19, 2021

“The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.” -Andrew Carnegie, net worth $310 billion

Conventional wisdom says “don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”

Why? Because that’s risky. It’s scary. And traditional wisdom is inherently risk-avoidant.

Going to college, getting a steady job, everything in moderation — that’s what traditional advice says. There’s nothing wrong with this path — life is a balance, and many people find much happiness and satisfaction in the road most traveled.

But if you want to be insanely successful — the kind of successful most people will never experience — you need to put all your eggs in one basket.

It’s the only way you’ll get the truly enormous results that will put you on top.

“Success is 20 steps in one direction, not one step in 20 directions.” -Anonymous

How To Make Your Bet a Sure-Thing

“Always bet on the man who bets everything on himself.” -Old proverb

Did you know that 99% of people who start a marathon finish it?

Your greatest strength is your resiliency and persistence. You can keep going and going…

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Anthony Moore
Anthony Moore

Written by Anthony Moore

Writer for CNBC, Business Insider, Fast Company, Thought Catalog, Yahoo! Finance, and you.

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