The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart.
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.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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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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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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If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
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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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So it’s a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what’s good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.
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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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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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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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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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Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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The world, then, no longer resembles the one that gave rise to the original insight. Soon, a person’s situation is so at odds with the world as it really is that a crisis develops, and he or she must seek a new metaphor for explanation and guidance.
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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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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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