A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change.
BILL BONNERVictory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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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The US is headed for ruin and revolution. The revolution will almost certainly be put down, violently. But the ruin cannot be stopped.
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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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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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There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
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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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The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart.
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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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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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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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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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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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I think people can handle 150 to 200 miles a week. But something has to give somewhere. If he’s a student, how’s he going to study? He may be at the age of chasing and courtship, and that’s an important form of sport and recreation, too.
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