Scorecard # 40 – Reversals of Fortune
“There are a million ways to get wealthy… but there’s only one way to stay wealthy: some combination of frugality and paranoia”
Scorecard # 35 – Realpolitik
“No Chinese leader has ever abandoned the insistence on ultimate unification [of Taiwan] or can be expected to do so. No foreseeable American leader will jettison the American conviction that this process should be peaceful or alter the American view on the subject”.
Henry Kissinger, On China (1)
Scorecard # 34 – Bedrock
Trying to predict and successfully time when the next storm will arrive is not a substitute for sturdy construction. Financial storms tend to arrive with little warning. The key to resilience is to know that they will inevitably come and to prepare in advance.