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Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Bernard Baruch

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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Blessing Discipline Freedom
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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College Little Past Philosophy
Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Forests Insider Play Tree
I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Lost Lost Money Profit
Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Inspirational Leadership Teacher
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Age Birthday Years
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Always Hardest Investing Times
Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
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Business Experiment Fool Government
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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Book Friends Giving Old
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Business Future Men
I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
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Giving Keep Middle Moving Top
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Hammers Nails Political
You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
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Communism Government Important Political Struggle
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Good Liars Times Timing
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Listen Most Mostly People Successful

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