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 BONNERThe 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.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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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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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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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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People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
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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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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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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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