The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart.
BILL BONNERYes, there are constraints on the way the insiders use their power. There are ‘checks and balances,’ built into the constitution, for example.
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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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
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Everything you need is already inside.
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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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God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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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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Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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The economic freedom that made the U.S. economy the leader of the world has given way toa rigged, controlled, and regulated economy.
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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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I hope the competition will resume, and if it does, you must not think that running or throwing or jumping is frivelous. The games were once your fellow Olympians answer to war – competition, not conquest. Now, they must be your answer.
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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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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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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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Now it is done by the central bankers and Treasury Secretaries themselves. They don’t apologize for it. They don’t hang their heads and contemplate blowing their brains out. Instead, they’re proud of it… announcing that they ‘saved civilization,’ or some such claptrap.
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