Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
BERNARD BARUCHMaking a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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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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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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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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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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In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world’s greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.
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Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.
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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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The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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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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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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We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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