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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.

Bill Bonner

I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They’re never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
BILL BONNER

Hockey Running Sports
That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.
BILL BONNER

Forever Learning Wisdom
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.
BILL BONNER

Agreement Liberal People Want
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

Littles Man Rich Want Wealth
If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
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Looks Outlook Secret Source
Several of my critics have said, ‘Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.’ They’re partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is? ‘Don’t overcoach.’
BILL BONNER

Athlete Giving Running
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

Adversity Men Running Themselves
Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
BILL BONNER

Giving Guy Trying
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.
BILL BONNER

Banker Blowing Brains Hang Head Secretaries
Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
BILL BONNER

Inspiration Motivational Sports Victory
Everything you need is already inside.
BILL BONNER

Gym Motivational Running Sports
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.
BILL BONNER

Begin Eventually Government Painkillers
God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
BILL BONNER

Helping Mechanic Running
If you have a body, you are an athlete!
BILL BONNER

Athlete Body Motivational
If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
BILL BONNER

Done End Race Winner
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

Art Careers Experience Real Rock

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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