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.
BERNARD BARUCHMost of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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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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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. … The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
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I made my money by selling too soon.
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Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.
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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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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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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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I never lost money by turning a profit.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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