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.
BILL BONNERBoth 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.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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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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Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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Everything you need is already inside.
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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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God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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If someone says, ‘Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?’ ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?…. The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.
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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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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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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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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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There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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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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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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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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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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