16 Quotes by Bill Bonner

If there is one thing that marks families with money over the long term it is this: delayed gratification.

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

You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.

That is the problem with age and wisdom – it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.

Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It’s the lack of limits they can’t handle. That’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.

If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.

Central planning doesn’t work. A little bit of it is a drag. A lot is fatal.

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.

Money does what it’s told. A business has a mind of its own. Money is fickle and runs around. A business is steadfast and loyal. Money is easy come, easy go. A business drags its feet in coming and digs in its.