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 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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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
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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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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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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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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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Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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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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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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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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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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God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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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.
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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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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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