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The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.

Bernard Baruch

Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all…
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Knowing Passion Thinking
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Doors Luck Player
A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.
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Assuring Die Explain Horse Kings Later Majesty Man Philosophy
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
Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters – or anyone – bringing gifts of ‘inside’ information or tips. Don’t try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.
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Barbers Best Beware Field Information Know Stick Waiter
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Blow Light Shining
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.
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Loss Men Produce Profit Progress Show Yield
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Hammers Nails Political
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
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
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Government Individuality People
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
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Imagination Inspirational Intelligence
There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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Health Incurable Men Science Things
Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Attention Pay President
Never follow the crowd.
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Inspirational Self Esteem Self Respect
Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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Inspirational Success Talking

The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.

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