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 BONNERIf at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
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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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
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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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Once 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.
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The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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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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There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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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 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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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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People are upset. They know something is wrong. But they don’t know what. The real explanation is too complicated. They won’t sit still for it. So, they look for scapegoats – the rich…the banks…the Chinese.
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God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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