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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.

Bernard Baruch

Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.
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Bottom Business Done Liars Trying
The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
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Age Enemy Essence
Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Inspirational Leadership Teacher
A man can’t retire his experience.
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Ciphers Experience Retirement
When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
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Beggar Belief Boys Dangerous Illusion Shoeshine
Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
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Loss Men Produce Profit Progress Show Yield
Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot–or if you do not know how to improve on things–then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.
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Change Fact Improve Knowing Situation 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
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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Cold Shooting War
Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Bears Investment Parks
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Cutting Loss Yield
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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Heart Soul Whatever
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
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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Assuring Die Explain Horse Kings Later Majesty Man Philosophy
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
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Approach Problem Views
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise
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
There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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Health Incurable Men Science Things
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
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Character Technology Thinking
Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Forests Insider Play Tree
Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
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Cities Industries Land Roots Trees
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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Equality Ships Wisdom
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
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
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
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

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