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There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That’s a beautiful deleveraging.

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
When growth is slower than expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher than expected, bonds go down. When inflation’s lower than expected, bonds go up.
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Bond Expectation Growth Investment Marketing Slow
The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you’ll be.
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Limitation Mindset Thinking Yourself
I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one’s strengths and weaknesses are.
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Believe Big Humanity Myself Problem Strength Weakness Wrong
An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.
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Complication Economy Move
I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.
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Ethics Integrity Judgement Learning Love People Perspective
The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that’s incorrect.
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Creation Media Perception Power True
Most people have a hard time confronting their weaknesses in a really straightforward, evidence-based way. They also have problems speaking frankly to others. Some people love knowing about their weaknesses and mistakes and those of others because it helps them be so much better, while others can’t stand it.
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Evidence Hard Time Mistake People Problem Stand Way Weakness
It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you’re doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.
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Flow Future Interest Investment Pay Rate
People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.
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Choice Confusion Creation Impossible People True
There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.
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Desire Excellence Money Oneself Society
I don’t think individual media outlets will regulate. There are such things as self-regulatory organizations that will look at the members of the industry and their behavior and establish standards of behavior.
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Behavior Establishment Media Member Thinking
Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse is also true: idealists who are not well-grounded in reality create problems, not progress.
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Achievement Creation Ideal Problem Progress Reality Success True Understand
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
Don’t worry about looking good – worry about achieving your goals.
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Achievement Appearance Goal Goodness Worry
Remember that experience creates internalization. Doing things repeatedly leads to internalization, which produces a quality of understanding that is generally vastly superior to intellectualized learning.
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Experience Intellectual Leadership Learning Production Quality Remember

There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That’s a beautiful deleveraging.

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There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That’s a beautiful deleveraging.

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