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It’s more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.

Ray Dalio

Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.
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Delicious Hope Life Rejection Taste Yourself
Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.
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Encouragement People Yourself
Over the long run, the price of gold approximates the total amount of money in circulation divided by the size of the gold stock. If the market price of gold moves a long way from this level, it may indicate a buying or selling opportunity.
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Gold Market Money Opportunity Price Way
A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn’t dramatic.
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Balance Beautiful Drama Money Option Printing Word
When two intelligent parties disagree, that’s when the potential for learning and moving ahead begins.
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Beginning Intelligence Learning Party Potential
Meditation helps you stay in a calm, clear-headed state so that when challenges come at you, you can deal with them like a ninja – in a calm thoughtful way. When you’re centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.
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Calm Challenge Emotion Help Meditation Stay Yourself
Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.
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Arrogant Field Intellectual Play Pride Stand
Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.
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Advantage Criticism People Success
Some people who are creative are not reliable and vice versa; some see big pictures while others see details, etc. All of them are important to have on well-orchestrated teams.
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Creation People Photograph Team Trust
The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that’s incorrect.
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Creation Media Perception Power True
Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.
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Life Live Principle Value Yourself
I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.
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Difference Meditation Moments Myself Notice
I believe that dreamers who simply imagine things that would be nice but are not possible don’t sufficiently appreciate the laws of the universe to understand the true implications of their desires, much less how to achieve them.
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Achievement Believe Desire Dreams Imagination Myself Simplicity Understand
Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.
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Money People Production Society Warning
Forget about what the technology is. Just understand the motivation behind it.
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Forget Motivational Technology Understand
By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn’t give a damn what you like. So it is up to you to take full responsibility to connect what you want with what you need to do to get it, and then to do those things.
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Connection Deserve Life Responsibility Yourself

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