Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
BILL BONNERA 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.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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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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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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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 athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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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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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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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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The economic freedom that made the U.S. economy the leader of the world has given way toa rigged, controlled, and regulated economy.
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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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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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Everything you need is already inside.
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You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you 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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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change.
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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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