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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.

Bill Bonner

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
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
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
Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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Giving Guy Trying
Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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Inspiration Motivational Sports Victory
You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery – and there’s not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.
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Forget Impossibility Recovery
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
You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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Deserve Investing Want What
I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They’re never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
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Hockey Running Sports
And there are cultural norms and traditional prohibitions. But eventually, the norms and traditions wear off, like painkillers. And then, the pain of raw government begins again.
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Begin Eventually Government Painkillers
Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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Failing Harness Succeed
If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
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Looks Outlook Secret Source
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
If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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Athlete Body Motivational
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
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Smart Teacher Teaching

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