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

Bernard Baruch

Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Doors Luck Player
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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Business Money Saving
I made my money by selling too soon.
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Business Finance Selling
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Destruction Peace War World
Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Inspirational Leadership Teacher
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace
Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.
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Anybody Consciousness Failure Mistake Nothing
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with.
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Change Grappled Problem Reality Truth
“The king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly.” My philosophy is like that man’s. I take the long-range view.
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Die Furthermore Horse King Learn Philosophy
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Communication Ideas Important
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Expectations Thinking Work
Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
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Ethics Responsibility Tomorrow
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Cutting Loss Yield
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Hammers Nails Political
Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
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Cities Industries Land Roots Trees
Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
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Being Fortune Quickly Right Sense Wrong

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