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.
BILL BONNERPeople do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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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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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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You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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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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God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery – and there’s not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.
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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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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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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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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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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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To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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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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There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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I hope the competition will resume, and if it does, you must not think that running or throwing or jumping is frivelous. The games were once your fellow Olympians answer to war – competition, not conquest. Now, they must be your answer.
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