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

Bernard Baruch

We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
BERNARD BARUCH

Contribute Needs Socialism
Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Bears Investment Parks
You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
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Deceive Entitled Fact Like Situation
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Cutting Loss Yield
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
A man can’t retire his experience.
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Ciphers Experience Retirement
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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Book Friends Giving Old
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
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
BERNARD BARUCH

Blessing Discipline Freedom
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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Country News Observes Pages
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Choices Dead Quick Today
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
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Forgiveness Life Positive
I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
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Men Mistake Motivation Prove Skill
Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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Cheerful Hats Honest Skill Success Summer Wintertime
Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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Inspirational Success Talking
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning

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