If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
BILL BONNERIf at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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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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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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Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery – and there’s not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.
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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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If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
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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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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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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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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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Several of my critics have said, ‘Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.’ They’re partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is? ‘Don’t overcoach.’
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