Once vast numbers of people have come to believe the lie, they adjust their own behavior to bring themselves into sync with it, and thereby change the world itself.
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.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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Everything you need is already inside.
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The US is headed for ruin and revolution. The revolution will almost certainly be put down, violently. But the ruin cannot be stopped.
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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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You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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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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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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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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You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery – and there’s not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.
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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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People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
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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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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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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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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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