There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
BILL BONNERSo it’s a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what’s good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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A man on his owns knows that he is best advised to leave his dumbbell neighbors alone. But let him join a political party, and he fantasizes that he has the right and the power to tell everyone on the block what to do.
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The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn’t have on things he doesn’t need — we’re done for.
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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change.
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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.
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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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If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
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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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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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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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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.
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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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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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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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