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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.

Bernard Baruch

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
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
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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Disarmament Past Peace Years
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
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
Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Inspirational Leadership Teacher
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
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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Available Detector Fingerprint Hate Instruments Lying Men Shiver Washing
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Cutting Loss Yield
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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Heart Soul Whatever
Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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People Praise Quick
A man can’t retire his experience.
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Ciphers Experience Retirement
Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Loss Men Power Reason Something Trying
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Good Liars Times Timing
I made my money by selling too soon.
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Business Finance Selling
Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
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Believe Mistaken Something Two Years

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