The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart.
BILL BONNERThe 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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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.
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The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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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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Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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A man’s wealth can…also be measured by what he doesn’t have and doesn’t want. When he wants little, he is a rich man.
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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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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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Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you 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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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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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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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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If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
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