You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery – and there’s not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.
BILL BONNEROnce 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.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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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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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.
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The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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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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None of the problems that caused the crises in Europe and America have been resolved. They have been delayed and expanded by more debt and more money printing and will lead to more and worse crises.
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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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Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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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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God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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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 look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
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If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
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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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