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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

Bernard Baruch

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
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
Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Attention Pay President
In trading/ investing it’s not about how much you make, but how much you don’t lose
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Investing Loses Trading
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
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Blow Light Shining
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Destruction Peace War World
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
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 never lost money by turning a profit.
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Lost Lost Money Profit
I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
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Giving Keep Middle Moving Top
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Birthday Funny Grow Up
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
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Men War Weaponry
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Answers Belief Humility
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Full Jobs Speculate Time

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