A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
BERNARD BARUCHMost of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
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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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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
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I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
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So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.
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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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Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
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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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A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Financial storm definitely passed.
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