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If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.

Bill Bonner

The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn’t have on things he doesn’t need — we’re done for.
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Civilization Consumer Done Needs
I hope the competition will resume, and if it does, you must not think that running or throwing or jumping is frivelous. The games were once your fellow Olympians answer to war – competition, not conquest. Now, they must be your answer.
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Answer Competition Games Jumping Olympians Throwing
Yes, there are constraints on the way the insiders use their power. There are ‘checks and balances,’ built into the constitution, for example.
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Balance Checks Constraints Construction Example
There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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Runners Running Weather
A man on his owns knows that he is best advised to leave his dumbbell neighbors alone. But let him join a political party, and he fantasizes that he has the right and the power to tell everyone on the block what to do.
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Block Man Party
People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
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Deserve People Want
To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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Athlete Innovation Inspiration
Everything you need is already inside.
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Gym Motivational Running Sports
If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
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Delayed Gratification Long Mark
The world, then, no longer resembles the one that gave rise to the original insight. Soon, a person’s situation is so at odds with the world as it really is that a crisis develops, and he or she must seek a new metaphor for explanation and guidance.
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Develop Explain Guidance Situation Soon
There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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Funny Motivational Nike
I think people can handle 150 to 200 miles a week. But something has to give somewhere. If he’s a student, how’s he going to study? He may be at the age of chasing and courtship, and that’s an important form of sport and recreation, too.
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Running Sports Thinking
So it’s a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what’s good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.
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Current Good Guy might Next Practical
You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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Deserve Investing Want What
The economic freedom that made the U.S. economy the leader of the world has given way toa rigged, controlled, and regulated economy.
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Leader Way World
Now it is done by the central bankers and Treasury Secretaries themselves. They don’t apologize for it. They don’t hang their heads and contemplate blowing their brains out. Instead, they’re proud of it… announcing that they ‘saved civilization,’ or some such claptrap.
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Banker Blowing Brains Hang Head Secretaries

If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.

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