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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.

Bernard Baruch

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
Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.
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Aged Anything Enemy Inflation Old
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Full Jobs Speculate Time
No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Anger Humiliate Men
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Investing Movement Psychology
Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.
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Heart Love Mistake Task Undertake
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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Always Hope Investing Men Soaring Two
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
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.
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Art Disappointment Lying
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
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Economy Increase Men Produce
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Hammers Nails Political
Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Loss Men Power Reason Something Trying
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Agreement Lying Race
It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Difficult Knows Sells
Don’t pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.
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Friends Loyal Newspaper Pity Prejudice Quick Read
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace

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