If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
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 athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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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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People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
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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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The idea that the harder you work, the better you’re going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.
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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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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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None of the problems that caused the crises in Europe and America have been resolved. They have been delayed and expanded by more debt and more money printing and will lead to more and worse crises.
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Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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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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You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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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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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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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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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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