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Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters – or anyone – bringing gifts of ‘inside’ information or tips. Don’t try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.

Bernard Baruch

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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Brain Passion Prejudice Sharp
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
Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
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Art Bucketful Courage Creativity Generous Imagination Teacher
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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Business Experiment Fool Government
Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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Humble Market More Way
We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
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Contribute Needs Socialism
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
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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Bridges Crosses Economy
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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Funny Humor Men
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
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Government Individuality People
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
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Listen Most Mostly People Successful
Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Forests Insider Play Tree
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
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Business Future Men

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