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Finance and money depend on belief in value; once confidence in the dollar is lost, people stop wanting to use it.
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Confidence
Finance and money depend on belief in value; once confidence in the dollar is lost, people stop wanting to use it.
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Jiang says strength and confidence redirect energy toward self-improvement rather than fixation on other people's wrongs.
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"um yeah that's that's a great analogy I completely agree yeah because if you're really strong and confident you just focus on improving yourself..."
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"...Because a lot of finance, a lot of money, it's just confidence, okay? You have the U.S. dollar because you're confident that it's valuable...."
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"...to me, is that no one can say with any real confidence what is going to happen. And the one thing that global economy..."
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"...You probably won't succeed doing this. So you don't have much confidence in others. Okay? And the idea of self -assessment, right? Looking inward...."
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"...of total war. It allows you to weaponize the trust and confidence of your people, okay? Does that make sense? But there's a problem,..."
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"...people will want to follow me, okay? And people love this confidence, right? This charisma, this confidence of Napoleon. Think of Trump, right? Maybe..."
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"...made Napoleon such a great military leader. Because he had this confidence, and people just had to follow him, okay? Does that make sense?..."
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"...all doubts as temptations of the devil, since lack of self -confidence is the result of insufficient faith and hence of imperfect grace, okay?..."
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"...really at this point the height of Chinese civilization there's a confidence there's an arrogance to the Han and one of the top priorities..."
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"Okay? He didn't have the confidence to challenge Octavian for the ultimate power. And seeing this lack of confidence and this insecurity, his soldiers..."
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