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“The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

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Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.”

“The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.”

Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.”

Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.”

Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.”

Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.”

Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.”

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1. “Treat your life like a game.”

2. “Don’t worry about looking good – worry about achieving your goals.”

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3. “When you think that it’s too hard, remember that in the long run, doing the things that will make you successful is a lot easier than being unsuccessful.”

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4. “By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn’t give a damn what you like. So it is up to you to take full responsibility to connect what you want with what you need to do to get it, and then to do those things.”

5. “Do not feel bad about your mistakes or those of others. Love them! Remember that one: they are to be expected; two: they’re the first and most essential part of the learning process; and three: feeling bad about them will prevent you from getting better.”

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6. “Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.”

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7. “It’s more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.”

8. “To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.”

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9. “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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10. “Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I’ve had.”

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11. “School typically doesn’t prepare young people for real life – unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that’s why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.”

12. “The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you’ll be.”

13. “He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.”

14. “More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don’t is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively.”

15. “If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way of dealing with them than if you don’t face them head on. The more difficult the problem, the more important it is that you stare at it and deal with it.”

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16. “If you don’t own Gold, you know neither history nor economics.”

17. “The best advice I can give you is to ask yourself what do you want, then ask ‘what is true’ – and then ask yourself ‘what should be done about it.’ I believe that if you do this you will move much faster towards what you want to get out of life than if you don’t!”

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18. “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.”

19. “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.”

20. “It is a law of nature that you must do difficult things to gain strength and power. As with working out, after a while you make the connection between doing difficult things and the benefits you get from doing them, and you come to look forward to doing these difficult things.”

21. “Pull in your belt, spend less, and reduce debt.”

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22. “Almost everything is like a machine.”

23. “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.”

24. “Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing that you don’t know something is nearly as valuable as knowing it. The worst situation is thinking you know something when you don’t.”

25. “I believe that for the most part, achieving success – whatever that is for you – is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult.”

26. “What matters most is that the people you work with share your values.”

27. “There are far more good answers “out there” than there are in you.”

28. “Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.”

29. “You should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don’t know what the future is going to hold.”

30. “When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds go down. When inflation is lower-than-expected, bonds go up.”

31. “I also believe that everyone needs to think independently and make their own decisions on what makes the most sense.”

32. “Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.”

33. “An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.”

34. “People who worry about looking good typically hide what they don’t know and hide their weaknesses, so they never learn how to properly deal with them and these weaknesses remain impediments in the future.”

35. “Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.”

36. “Watch out for people who think it’s embarrassing not to know.”

37. “Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.”

38. “You’ll see that excuses like “That’s not easy” are of no value and that it pays to “push through it” at a pace you can handle. Like getting physically fit, the most important thing is that you keep moving forward at whatever pace you choose, recognizing the consequences of your actions.”

39. “If you’re not failing, you’re not pushing your limits, and if you’re not pushing your limits, you’re not maximizing your potential.”

40. “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.”

41. “Meditation helps you stay in a calm, clear-headed state so that when challenges come at you, you can deal with them like a ninja – in a calm thoughtful way. When you’re centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.”

42. “I can be stressed, or tired, and I can go into a meditation and it all just flows off of me. I’ll come out of it refreshed and centered and that’s how I’ll feel and it’ll carry through the day.”

43. “Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.”

44. “Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.”

45. “In the end, what matters most is that the people you work with share your values, so I’ve wanted people who value the meaningful work and meaningful relationships that always motivated me in building Bridgewater.”

46. “I’m just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.”

47. “To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you’ve made a mistake or don’t know something.”

48. “When you’re centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.”

49. “Don’t get distracted by shiny objects.”

50. “The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I’m wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets.”

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