The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart.
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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Yes, there are constraints on the way the insiders use their power. There are ‘checks and balances,’ built into the constitution, for example.
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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.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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Everything you need is already inside.
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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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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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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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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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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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God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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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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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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If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
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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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