If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
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More Bill Bonner Quotes
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Everything you need is already inside.
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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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There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
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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.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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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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To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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I 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.
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Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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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.’
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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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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.
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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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The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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