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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

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
What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
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Country Made Record Reliance Sturdy
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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Business Money Saving
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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Country Decision Light Path Stock
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Cutting Loss Yield
I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
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Giving Keep Middle Moving Top
When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
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Beggar Belief Boys Dangerous Illusion Shoeshine
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
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
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
Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.
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Anybody Consciousness Failure Mistake Nothing
Financial storm definitely passed.
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Depression Financial Great Storm
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Doors Luck Player
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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Art Disappointment Lying
Never follow the crowd.
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Inspirational Self Esteem Self Respect
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Birthday Funny Grow Up
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Full Jobs Speculate Time
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
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Brain Passion Prejudice Sharp
Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Bears Investment Parks
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
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Good Liars Times Timing
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
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Fall Higher Insurance Money Pension Unemployment
Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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Inspirational Success Talking
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Hammers Nails Political
No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Anger Humiliate Men
The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
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Age Enemy Essence
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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Always Hope Investing Men Soaring Two

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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