You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
BILL BONNERYou can forget about recovery. There is no recovery – and there’s not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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The US is headed for ruin and revolution. The revolution will almost certainly be put down, violently. But the ruin cannot be stopped.
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People are upset. They know something is wrong. But they don’t know what. The real explanation is too complicated. They won’t sit still for it. So, they look for scapegoats – the rich…the banks…the Chinese.
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Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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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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If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
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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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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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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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There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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A man’s wealth can…also be measured by what he doesn’t have and doesn’t want. When he wants little, he is a rich man.
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People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
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Both the liberal and the conservative are in agreement: it is all very well to let the people alone, but only if they do what you want them to do.
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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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