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BILL BONNERThe real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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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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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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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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You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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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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God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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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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Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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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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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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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 teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change.
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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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