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.
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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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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If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
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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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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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There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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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 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 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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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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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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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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Everything you need is already inside.
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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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God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.
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