The US is headed for ruin and revolution. The revolution will almost certainly be put down, violently. But the ruin cannot be stopped.
BILL BONNERHarness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
-
-
The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart.
BILL BONNER -
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change.
BILL BONNER -
Everything you need is already inside.
BILL BONNER -
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.
BILL BONNER -
Once vast numbers of people have come to believe the lie, they adjust their own behavior to bring themselves into sync with it, and thereby change the world itself.
BILL BONNER -
You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery – and there’s not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.
BILL BONNER -
The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
BILL BONNER -
People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
BILL BONNER -
Now it is done by the central bankers and Treasury Secretaries themselves. They don’t apologize for it. They don’t hang their heads and contemplate blowing their brains out. Instead, they’re proud of it… announcing that they ‘saved civilization,’ or some such claptrap.
BILL BONNER -
Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
BILL BONNER -
Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are practically lies… and often dangerous ones.
BILL BONNER -
Both the liberal and the conservative are in agreement: it is all very well to let the people alone, but only if they do what you want them to do.
BILL BONNER -
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.
BILL BONNER -
The economic freedom that made the U.S. economy the leader of the world has given way toa rigged, controlled, and regulated economy.
BILL BONNER -
The idea that the harder you work, the better you’re going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.
BILL BONNER