The economic freedom that made the U.S. economy the leader of the world has given way toa rigged, controlled, and regulated economy.
BILL BONNERIf you have a body, you are an athlete!
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If someone says, ‘Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?’ ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?…. The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.
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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They’re never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
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God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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Yes, there are constraints on the way the insiders use their power. There are ‘checks and balances,’ built into the constitution, for example.
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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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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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Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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