The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart.
BILL BONNERYou don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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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.
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People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
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If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
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I hope the competition will resume, and if it does, you must not think that running or throwing or jumping is frivelous. The games were once your fellow Olympians answer to war – competition, not conquest. Now, they must be your answer.
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The world, then, no longer resembles the one that gave rise to the original insight. Soon, a person’s situation is so at odds with the world as it really is that a crisis develops, and he or she must seek a new metaphor for explanation and guidance.
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You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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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.
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To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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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.
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Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings…pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their own lives.
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If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
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Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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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.
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