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I never lost money by turning a profit.

Bernard Baruch

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
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
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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Cold Shooting War
Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
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Business Experiment Fool Government
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 don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Blow Light Shining
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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College Little Past Philosophy
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
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Agreement Lying Race
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
No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Anger Humiliate Men
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
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Approach Problem Views
Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
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Cities Industries Land Roots Trees
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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Country News Observes Pages
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
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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Bridges Crosses Economy

I never lost money by turning a profit.

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