If you have a body, you are an athlete!
BILL BONNEREverything you need is already inside.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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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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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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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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God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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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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If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
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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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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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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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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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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 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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If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
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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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