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Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.

Bernard Baruch

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
The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
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Believe Country Information Wall
Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Attention Pay President
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
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Full Jobs Speculate Time
I made my money by selling too soon.
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Business Finance Selling
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
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
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Lying Peace Salvation Work
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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Blessing Discipline Freedom
Financial storm definitely passed.
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Depression Financial Great Storm
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Doors Luck Player
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace
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
A man can’t retire his experience.
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Ciphers Experience Retirement
No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Anger Humiliate Men
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

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