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 BONNERYou don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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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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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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Everything you need is already inside.
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There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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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.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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And there are cultural norms and traditional prohibitions. But eventually, the norms and traditions wear off, like painkillers. And then, the pain of raw government begins again.
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The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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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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Both the liberal and the conservative are in agreement: it is all very well to let the people alone, but only if they do what you want them 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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To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change.
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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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