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 BONNERIf 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 BONNERThere’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
BILL BONNEROnly 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 BONNERYou don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
BILL BONNERNeither 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 BONNERThe 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.
BILL BONNERHarness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
BILL BONNERI 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.
BILL BONNERBoth 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.
BILL BONNERPeople do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
BILL BONNERA teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
BILL BONNERThe real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart.
BILL BONNEREverything you need is already inside.
BILL BONNERI still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They’re never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
BILL BONNERThe athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
BILL BONNERIf there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
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