None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. … The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
BERNARD BARUCHIncreased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
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Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
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You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
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The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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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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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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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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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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Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all…
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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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