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Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.

Bill Bonner

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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Block Man Party
If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
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Looks Outlook Secret Source
To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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Athlete Innovation Inspiration
People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
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Deserve People Want
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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Develop Explain Guidance Situation Soon
If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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Athlete Body Motivational
You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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Deserve Investing Want What
Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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Failing Harness Succeed
Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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Giving Guy Trying
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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Balance Checks Constraints Construction Example
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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Athlete Giving Running
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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Art Careers Experience Real Rock
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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Behaviour Change Number Original World
If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
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Done End Race Winner
If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
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Delayed Gratification Long Mark
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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Believe Lying Simple

Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.

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