If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
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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If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
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To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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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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Everything you need is already inside.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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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 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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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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