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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit

Bernard Baruch

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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Being Fortune Quickly Right Sense Wrong
I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Lost Lost Money Profit
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Blow Light Shining
The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.
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Ago Clothes Grave Hundred People Some Years Young
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
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
The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
BERNARD BARUCH

Age Enemy Essence
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
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Disarmament Past Peace Years
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Communication Ideas Important
Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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Humble Market More Way
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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Learn Men Observation
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
Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
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Believe Mistaken Something Two Years
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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Men State Thinking Zero
It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Difficult Knows Sells
I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
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Men Mistake Motivation Prove Skill

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit

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