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.
BILL BONNERGod determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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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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You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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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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If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
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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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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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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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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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If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
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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.
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The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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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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Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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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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