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.
BILL BONNERA teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
-
-
You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
BILL BONNER -
So it’s a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what’s good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.
BILL BONNER -
The economic freedom that made the U.S. economy the leader of the world has given way toa rigged, controlled, and regulated economy.
BILL BONNER -
People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
BILL BONNER -
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change.
BILL BONNER -
God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
BILL BONNER -
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.
BILL BONNER -
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.
BILL BONNER -
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.
BILL BONNER -
The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
BILL BONNER -
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.
BILL BONNER -
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.
BILL BONNER -
You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery – and there’s not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.
BILL BONNER -
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.
BILL BONNER -
People are upset. They know something is wrong. But they don’t know what. The real explanation is too complicated. They won’t sit still for it. So, they look for scapegoats – the rich…the banks…the Chinese.
BILL BONNER