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Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

Bernard Baruch

You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Blow Light Shining
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.
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Atom Domain Evil Instead Lies Lying Taught
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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College Little Past Philosophy
America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
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Believe Maturity Path Years
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
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
Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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Humble Market More Way
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Full Jobs Speculate Time
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
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Choices Dead Quick Today
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Listen Most Mostly People Successful
Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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Fields Sticks Trying
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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Country News Observes Pages
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
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
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with.
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Change Grappled Problem Reality Truth

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