I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They’re never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
BILL BONNERIf there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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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 athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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None of the problems that caused the crises in Europe and America have been resolved. They have been delayed and expanded by more debt and more money printing and will lead to more and worse crises.
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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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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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Everything you need is already inside.
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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 teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
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Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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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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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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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.
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The economic freedom that made the U.S. economy the leader of the world has given way toa rigged, controlled, and regulated economy.
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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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So 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.
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