If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
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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Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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The 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.
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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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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change.
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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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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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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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Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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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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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
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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 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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