Bill Bonner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Central planning doesn't work. A little bit of it is a drag. A lot is fatal.
-- Bill Bonner

#Littles #Planning #Drag
Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
-- Bill Bonner

#Succeed #Failing #Harness
If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
-- Bill Bonner

#Secret #Looks #Source
People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
-- Bill Bonner

#People #Want #Deserve
Remember, government is not an enlightened organization designed to promote public welfare. It is barbaric, uncivilized forcemilitary and police power put to the service of the insiders who control it. Yes, there are constraints on the way the insiders use their power. There are 'checks and balances,' built into the constitution, for example. 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.
-- Bill Bonner

#Pain #Government #Organization
Anyone who wants to vote probably shouldn't be allowed to vote. Voting is the first step towards zombification - trying to get something without actually working for it.
-- Bill Bonner

#Voting #Trying #Want
Printing up extra money - with no backing - used to be the sort of thing only counterfeiters did. 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.
-- Bill Bonner

#Civilization #Brain #Bankers
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.
-- Bill Bonner

#Needs #Done #World
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.
-- Bill Bonner

#Men #Want #Littles
Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. Itâ€™s the lack of limits they canâ€™t handle. Thatâ€™s when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.
-- Bill Bonner

#Running #Adversity #Men
If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
-- Bill Bonner

#Long #Mark #Delayed Gratification
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.
-- Bill Bonner

#Block #Party #Men

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